Anti-Money Laundering
Don't Change Rules, Change the Game
Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the AML Function
Anti-Money Laundering is a particularly challenging area of regulation for banks and even more so for large, geographically diverse institutions. Failure to have adequate processes can result in massive regulatory fines – well into the tens of billions of dollars annually.
The advent of machine intelligence techniques can, with minimal disruption to existing systems, transform a bank’s AML process. Using these approaches banks can deliver orders of magnitude greater efficiency in their AML processes while simultaneously decreasing their exposure to regulatory fines.
One key area of efficiencies is the reduction of false positives. While false positive rates can run to 95% or higher for many banks, using Ayasdi, one of the world’s largest and global banks achieved a reduction in false positives of 26% without impacting the number of suspicious activity reports. To read more about this use case see the related resources at the bottom of the page.
Discover
In most AML processes, subject matter experts make the determination of the rules or scenarios around what should trigger an investigation. Ayasdi’s technology automatically assembles self-similar groups of customers and customers-of-customers. This allows the bank’s subject matter experts to tune the thresholds within each scenario but from a principled starting point.
Predict
Because Ayasdi creates superior groupings through discovery, predictions off these grouping are highly accurate. This provides enhanced resolution for the investigative teams as they manage the delicate balance between signal and noise.
Justify
A critical, often overlooked step, in AML workflows is the ability to explain what has driven the creation of these groups and the optimization of thresholds within the scenarios. Aysadi provides complete transparency into what is driving the segmentation and the ranking and produces the complete documentation workflow including simple decision trees that can be shared with internal model governance boards and external regulators.
Act
Ayasdi’s AML solution operates in the bank’s standard workflow producing ranked lists to the investigative team or into the appropriate downstream applications. Pushing intelligence to the subject matter experts results in fewer false positives and more caught launderers.
Learn
Ayasdi’s AML solution is constantly looking at newly arriving data, identifying changing patterns and suggesting updates to segments and rankings based on that information. As a result, subtle patterns suggesting emergent behavior is identified for the subject matter experts to consider.