FinTech of the Week is Owlin, AI-powered real-time insights for risk management
Tuesday 25 February 2020
In our ongoing series, our FinTECHTalents FinTech of the Week is Owlin, which provides a news analytics tool that helps finance professionals monitor their portfolio proactively, continuously, and in real-time. In this exclusive interview, sales director Bob Koster, “The key advantages with AI and specifically machine learning or entity recognition is that we can filter
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KYC/AML for the ‘good guys’
Tuesday 28 January 2020
RegTech startup Altergaia is looking to tackle fraud for small to medium-sized businesses. What is Altergaia – what problem are you solving? Altergaia is a KYC/AML software company with a business focus that runs on Salesforce.com. It stops you wasting time trying to on board customers outside your risk appetite while enhancing near real time customer experience
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The customer as the nucleus of a complex cellular structure
Tuesday 29 October 2019
Financial crime prevention provider, Quantexa makes sure they always look to the bigger picture in order to correctly assess the level of risk. Who is Quantexa – what problem are you solving? Ultimately, we are focussed on helping Financial Institutions to better detect Financial Crime & Fraud; whilst also empowering our customers to make better decisions around
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Catching crimes before they happen
Tuesday 29 October 2019
While AML-focused FinTech, Sedicii wear their passion on their sleeve for everyone to see, their identity and security solutions tackle issues such as money laundering without exposure to any private customer data. What is Sedicii – what problem are you solving? We provide real-time verification of identity and real time collaborative monitoring for AML with a strong
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The innovation conversation 10 years on and 10 years to go
Tuesday 01 October 2019
I hung out with our FinTECHTalents partners, FinTech Finance at this year’s London Sibos event where I sat down with several people to chat about FinTech, innovation and conversation over the past 10 years and what we can expect from the future. Here I chat with the formidable Tony Fish, author, investor and entrepreneur. We
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Riskinnov – The FinTech Story so far…
Tuesday 01 October 2019
At the launch of FinTECHTalents in 2018 – Riskinnov introduced us to risk analysis, assessment and forecasting that helps you assess the risks you are and/or will be facing. Riskinnov returns for FinTECHTalents 2019. We caught up with the team to hear about ‘the story so far…’ What’s new? A new global challenge to wealth
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Risk management for an interconnected world
Tuesday 01 October 2019
The gang at FNA not only appreciate the complexity of mapping multifaceted relationships to better understand modern financial markets, they also take the time to appreciate Mancunian beer that showcases local artists. What is FNA – what problem are you solving? Since the financial crisis of 2007–2008, regulators and supervisors have recognised the interconnected nature
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PAD is not enough… Biometric security needs RAD
Tuesday 17 September 2019
A thought provoking blog post from Gabriel Turner, Product Manager, iProov. Presentation Attack Detection or “PAD” is increasingly a hot topic within the biometrics industry. While this is definitely a step in the right direction, cyber-thieves are still diligently exploiting security gaps in identity proofing and strong customer authentication. Exclusive focus on presentation attacks alone
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Does your bank have an ethical data culture?
Tuesday 03 September 2019
Our friends from Sensibill made you a flowchart to find out. Thanks to Silicon Valley, we have plenty of examples of what it means to not have an ethical data culture. Uber’s “God View”; Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal; Google’s hacked Nest cams. And while hefty fines and public outcries are helping drive some change, it’s
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RegTech’s moment has arrived
Tuesday 03 September 2019
After Brian Clark witnessed the under-regulation, risk-taking and lax compliance practices that led to the 2008 global financial crisis, he founded Ascent. The RegTech company keeps businesses ahead of increasing regulation, helping them reduce regulatory and reputational risk. Today, the team is comprised of compliance officers, lawyers, data scientists and technologists who, in addition to
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