In 2004, a colleague and I had the idea of building a search string of negative words in several languages and applying that to a corpus of news content to support our banking clients with their KYC efforts. Thus was born the world’s first adverse media search tool, Lexis Diligence, and quite some time before

How can just searching for ‘adverse media’ on your customer mean you are getting to ‘know’ them at all? In this article we ask, are we really harnessing the full power of KYC technologies? With an abundance of mounting regulations, it is only natural that Know Your Customer screening has been solely about searching for

smartKYC has won the award for Best AI Solution for Regulatory Compliance at this year’s RegTech Insight Awards 2020. “We are delighted to have been recognised like this by RegTech Insight and its advisory board. This award cements smartKYC’s position as a leading tech vendor in the automated KYC screening and relationship intelligence industry.” Said

Wealth management is – alas – crowded with acronyms. KYC (Know Your Client) is one of the most ubiquitous and up there with it is ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance). The terms speak to advisors’ need to understand where and how their clients made their money and, increasingly, these issues mesh together. That is certainly

smartKYC has won the award for Best Data Discovery and Catalog Solution at this year’s Data Management Insight Awards 2019. “We are delighted to have been recognised like this by Data Management Insight and its advisory board. This award cements smartKYC’s position as a leading tech vendor in the automated KYC screening and relationship intelligence industry.” Said Dermot Corrigan, CEO of

The offering involves a multi-lingual semantic engine developed by smartKYC. It uses AI to aggregate relevant data, news and documents on a client. Private banking and wealth software firm Finantix, whose know-your-client offering has been developed by smartKYC, has won a major contract from Deutsche Bank Wealth Management to power its onboarding and KYC processes. Deutsche Bank has

The world’s most innovative providers of technology solutions for the global investment industry have been named on the inaugural WealthTech 100 list. WealthTech is one of the fastest growing sectors within the FinTech industry, with FinTech Global data showing investment in the space has grown five-fold since 2014 to reach $4.6bn last year. That surge in activity

smartKYC has been chosen by the attendees of the Global Regtech Summit, taking place in London on 22 May, to demonstrate their product during one of the sessions. Twenty of the world’s most innovative startup and scale-up companies, that offer solutions in RegTech, risk management or cybersecurity, are invited to give a live demo at

The Big Problem A key issue for many financial institutions these days is: Who is their client. With more regulation than ever before, anti money laundering (AML) and compliance are now the priorities for any financial institution, with their profitability as only a secondary concern. This need for heightened due diligence, partnered with a seemingly

Deloitte has launched its Managed Services platform as a solution to this conundrum, working closely with integrated cloud applications and platform services provider Oracle, know-your-client specialist smartKYC and business intelligence expert Bureau van Dijk. Deloitte Managed Services uses a framework that allows organisations to identify all relevant regulatory impacts as well as leverage solutions between regulations and across industry