Experian is the world’s leading global information services company. During life’s big moments – from buying a home or a car, to sending a child to college, to growing a business by connecting with new customers – we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence. We help individuals to take financial control and access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organisations to prevent identity fraud and crime.

We have 20,600 people operating across 43 countries and every day we’re investing in new technologies, talented people, and innovation to help all our clients maximise every opportunity. We are listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and are a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Learn more at www.experianplc.com or visit our global content hub at our global news blog for the latest news and insights from the Group.

At Hummingbird, our goal is to fight financial crime. We empower the heroes of the financial industry by bringing customer knowledge, case management, investigations, and regulatory reporting into one platform. Hummingbird is designed to connect seamlessly to existing KYC sources, transaction monitoring systems, and data stores to help compliance professionals fight financial crime more efficiently and effectively. And with Hummingbird Apps, it's easy for teams to customize their tech stacks to address their specific needs, from entering new global markets, adding new capabilities, and more. This is compliance made simple.

To learn more, please visit us at https://hummingbird.co/ or follow us on LinkedIn.

Refinitiv, an LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) business, is one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure. With $6.25 billion in revenue, over 40,000 customers and 400,000 end users across 190 countries, Refinitiv is powering participants across the global financial marketplace.

At Resistant AI, we’ve been using machine learning to hunt cybercriminals for over 16 years, and we’ve followed them into the field of financial crime. We’ve developed state of the art machine-learning techniques we call Identity Forensics to make the AI and automation systems of financial services resilient to manipulation and attack. By analyzing everything from submitted documents to ongoing customer behaviors, we uncover and prevent document forgery, serial fraud, synthetic identities, account takeovers, money laundering, and as yet unknown financial threats operating at scale.

Backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Index Ventures, Credo Ventures, Seedcamp and several angel investors specializing in financial technology and security, Resistant AI is headquartered in Prague with offices in London and New York.

Visit resistant.ai, connect on LinkedIn and follow on Twitter to learn more.

Signicat is a pioneering, pan-European digital identity company with an unrivalled track record in the world’s most advanced digital identity markets.

Its digital identity platform incorporates the most extensive suite of identity verification, authentication, electronic signature and orchestration systems, all accessible through a single integration point. The platform supports the full identity journey, from recognition and onboarding, through login and consent, to making business agreements which stand the test of time.

Since 2006 and with over 13,000 customers, Signicat has built a solid reputation by enabling trusted and compliant digital business for highly regulated and non-regulated industries through solutions for the whole customer lifecycle, seamless customer service and support, and access to 400+ digital identity experts.

As an EU Qualified Trust Service Provider, Signicat’s vision is building technology for people to trust each other in a digital world, bringing trust to identity claims in every step of the customer journey.

Signicat, a trusted digital world.

Lucinity is a cutting-edge software as a service (SaaS) company that is revolutionising the financial industry with its faster and smarter anti-money laundering (AML) solutions. With a mission to Make Money Good®, Lucinity is changing the game with its augmented intelligence approach, a powerful toolset that combines next-generation AI with human insights and expertise. By using augmented intelligence to detect and prevent financial crimes such as money laundering and terrorist financing, Lucinity is transforming the way financial institutions handle AML compliance. Lucinity enables scalable, streamlined, and cost-effective AML from end-to-end with four products: Transaction Monitoring, Actor Intelligence, Case Manager, and SAR Manager. 

 Lucinity's reach is global, with its headquarters based in Reykjavík, Iceland. The company caters to a diverse range of clientele, including Tier-1 banks, FinTechs, payment service providers, startups, scaleups, and enterprise businesses. 

For more information on Lucinity and its mission to Make Money Good®, visit www.lucinity.com. 

Acuminor is a RegTech company founded 2018 in Sweden by five co-founders with backgrounds from law enforcement, international banking and IT. Today, we have offices in Stockholm and London and serve more than 750 customers in 16 different countries. 

Acuminor is a technology company specialising in financial crime threat intelligence and risk assessments. Powered by expertise and machine learning, we help organisations understand and reduce their risks from money laundering, terrorist financing and sanction violations.

Alloy helps innovative banks and fast-growing fintech companies meet compliance requirements and reduce fraud rates enabling them to deliver a great customer experience, launch new products more quickly, and ensure they maximize growth without adding risk. Founded in 2015, Alloy has grown to meet the rising demand for identity tools by partnering with more than 170 data sources to automate identity decisions during account origination, and throughout a customer’s lifecycle. Over 350 companies — including Carta, Ramp, Brex, HMBradley, and Gemini — rely on Alloy to provide the risk solutions they need to grow.

FincSelect is a specialist financial crime and compliance recruitment firm founded by Jessica Hamilton (nee Hodson) and Ian Christie. Jessica has been recruiting financial crime in London for over 10 years, and Ian has been the mastermind deploying skilled interim professionals for some of the biggest consultancy projects in the city.

FincSelect is best known for having been part of and, instrumental to many of the largest and most complex financial crime team builds in the city; from placing the most sought-after MLROs and building their permanent teams, to mobilising interim teams of 200+ financial crime operations professionals.

FincSelect is trusted because of the depths of their networks, skill in understanding role requirements and determination to be the best in the market.

Risk Management for the Real-time Economy. Fraud.net operates a unified risk management and revenue enhancement ecosystem for financial services and digital commerce enterprises worldwide. The cloud-born platform helps organizations prevent fraud, money laundering, and other financial crimes and automates customer onboarding and compliance workflows. The platform leverages a no-code/low-code architecture, offers natively integrated data and tools from 50+ leading 3rd Party specialists, and relies on custom AI models to enable companies to make safer, smarter, and more profitable decisions.

Our Mission: Make every digital transaction safe.

Hawk AI helps banks, payment companies and Fintechs fight financial crime with AML and fraud surveillance. Powered by explainable AI (patent-pending) and cloud technology with a core focus on information sharing, Hawk AI improves the efficiency and effectiveness of anti-financial crime teams. Fully modular, cloud-native, and enhanced with machine learning, Hawk AI makes customer and transaction surveillance more efficient and ensures regulatory compliance. Using traditional rules combined with artificial intelligence to detect suspicious behavior in real-time, Financial Crime specialists can investigate true instances of suspicious activity. The company has scaled globally, processing billions of transactions across 60 countries.

Before founding Kodex, Matt Donahue was a Counterterrorism Intelligence special agent at the FBI, where he often saw multi-billion dollar companies overwhelmed and disorganized by receiving and responding to legal processes. Data requests from governments around the world can be a complex process for companies, especially for those dealing with sensitive information. The traditional manual process of managing these requests through emails and spreadsheets is time-consuming and prone to errors or fraud.

Kodex is a secure software portal that streamlines the process of processing and responding to data requests for companies  around the world. Kodex's features include real-time transparency reports, proactive lead sharing with law enforcement, and verification of law enforcement agents by Kodex. By automating the data request process, Kodex eliminates the need for manual tracking and reduces the risk of human error.

Kodex counts as clients Binance, Twilio and Cross River Bank. Recently, Kodex raised $10 million from Andreesen Horowitz, highlighting the company's potential in the market.

OCR Labs Global helps you quickly scale your business globally. Our fully-automated solution verifies new users in seconds with just their face and smartphone - in over 220 countries and territories with any ID document -  without the burden of human intervention. 

We empower true identity for people around the world. Through our Zero Bias AI™ technology, we are pioneering the use of generative AI to train deep neural network systems to protect against discrimination on the basis of race, age and gender.

Our advancements in Natural Vision Processing (NVP) are enabling machines to autonomously see and perceive as humans, and excel in ways that humans cannot.

RiskScreen is an award-winning RegTech focused on delivering reduced time to revenue and cost inefficiencies through onboarding, screening and pKYC SaaS solutions.

RiskScreen solutions are risk based, easily deployable, flexible and scalable. They deliver rapid ROI for users without compromising levels of compliance performance.

Founded by pre-eminent compliance experts including the original co-founder of the International Compliance Association, RiskScreen is a trusted technology provider to thousands of customers globally and a partner of the world’s leading data and CRM businesses including Dow Jones, Refinitiv and Salesforce.

The Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies (CFCS) at RUSI specialises on the pivotal role of finance in global security. Our pioneering analysis and actionable ideas aim to challenge the status quo and build resilience in the global response to illicit finance. Our work covers a range of state and non-state based security threats, which we examine through a financial lens. Since CFCS’s inception in 2014, we have been driving change through our partnership-based approach and the development of viable solutions.

Our work has helped to unveil the scale and complexities behind international illicit finance, as well as to identify realistic policy responses across both the public and private sectors. We focus on putting our evidence-based research into practice through capacity-building and collaborative workshops. CFCS experts are regularly called upon to advise governments and international bodies, including the UN Security Council, the Financial Action Task Force, the UK and European Parliaments and US Congress, among others.

Salv is an Estonian-based regtech, specialising in collaborative crime-fighting solutions such as Salv Bridge – Europe's first real-time cross-border information sharing network. Established in 2018 by co-founders who previously built Skype's anti-fraud teams and Wise's anti-money laundering, KYC and verification teams and tooling, Salv's core compliance platform helps customers across 13+ European countries meet their anti-money laundering, screening, monitoring, and customer risk assessment needs. With top-35 European banks like Swedbank and SEB, and major fintechs such as TrueLayer and SunFinance trusting Salv with their every transaction, Salv has grown quickly to host teams in Estonia, Lithuania and the United Kingdom. Salv Bridge is currently facilitating information exchange across borders across Europe – in Estonia, Latvia, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In 2023 Salv in collaboration with FINTRAIL and the Fintech FinCrime Exchange will launch its newest Bridge network, initially exclusively for UK-based fintechs, MSBs & PSPs before expanding across Europe and beyond.

Sardine is a single platform for fraud and compliance. An experienced team with deep expertise in fraud prevention allows the company to build innovative products to secure payments and financial applications. Sardine works with some of the world’s leading companies to accelerate the next version of global finance and the web. The company is headquartered in Miami, Florida. For more information, visit sardine.ai and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Sumsub is an all-in-one verification platform that secures every step of the customer's journey. With Sumsub’s customizable KYC, KYB, transaction monitoring and AML solutions, you can orchestrate your verification process, welcome more customers worldwide, speed up onboarding, reduce costs and steer clear of digital fraud.

Sumsub has over 2,000 clients across the fintech, trading, gaming, transportation, and crypto industries including Mercuryo, FlowBank, Bitwallet, ANNA Money, Capital.com and Lemonade Finance.

CipherCrime is a cryptocurrency, blockchain and Web3 financial crime news and media aggregator.

Combining our expertise in anti-financial crime with cryptocurrency, blockchain and Web3, we round up the latest and most relevant content and provide it to you from the moment you land on our homepage.

There is no limit to the news and media sources we use, so we can bring you the latest and most relevant content, faster.

Whether it is for business intelligence, professional development or out of an interest in cryptocurrencies, blockchain technologies and Web3 when it comes to financial crime, all news and media is in one place at CipherCrime.

The Laundry is a money laundering and financial crime news and media aggregator.

Combining our expertise in anti-money laundering with news and media aggregation, we round up the latest and most relevant content and provide it to you from the moment you land on our homepage.

There is no limit to the news and media sources we use, so we can bring you the latest and most relevant content, faster.

Whether it is for business intelligence, professional development or out of an interest in money laundering and financial crime, all news and media is in one place at The Laundry.

The Paypers covers the latest global news and analyses on payments, ecommerce, fintech, and the digital economy.

The Paypers report on global payments news and innovation in an increasingly digital economy. We’re on top of all payments and fintech news: payments infrastructure, payments systems, payments behaviours, ecommerce payments, Open Banking and Open Finance, Banking-as-a-Service, B2B payments, cryptocurrencies, fraud and financial crime prevention, along with breaking news on the digital economy. Follow us for the latest regulation updates, along with relevant company news on payments investments, product launches, partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions.