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Modernizing Risk & Compliance and Anti Money Laundering Operations with AI

In today’s fast-paced and highly regulated world, businesses can’t afford to wait for risks to materialize. Compliance and operations teams are burdened with managing massive volumes of alerts and cases while staying on top of emerging threats like financial crime, terrorism, and sanctions evasion. Traditional manual processes and legacy systems are no longer viable from a cost or risk management perspective. Companies need real-time, scalable solutions that not only identify risk but provide actionable insights before problems escalate and, at the same time, reduce events that are not relevant or material. This is where Sigma360 steps in.

Sigma360 is an AI-powered platform that transforms how businesses manage risk and compliance. By automating key processes and leveraging AI and big data, Sigma helps companies act faster and more efficiently, reducing manual effort and improving decision-making.

1) Proactive Risk Management with Automated News Media Screening

Compliance teams are constantly challenged to stay ahead of global risks. One of the biggest hurdles is keeping up with the flood of news that impacts risk profiles. Sigma360 solves this by automating due diligence risks such as high risk addresses and shell companies, as well as automating global news media screening with over 4.5 million articles each month from 200,000+ publishers. The platform filters out irrelevant content, focusing only on news that directly impacts risk profiles.

Using advanced AI models like DistilBERT and RoBERTa, Sigma360 categorizes articles by risk events such as terrorism, financial crime, and human rights violations, delivering highly accurate, contextually relevant information. The AI system can also customize risk tags based on specific criteria, ensuring that flagged content is actionable.

Sigma360 delivers what is relevant and material to you.

Sigma’s ability to group articles covering the same event enhances efficiency, helping compliance teams avoid sorting through redundant reports and stay ahead of risks.

2) Lightning-Fast, AI-Driven Matching

Speed is critical in today’s risk landscape, where businesses manage large volumes of client data across multiple regions. Sigma360 addresses this with its AI-driven matching system, which is ten times faster than traditional matching algorithms.

One of the key features is Sigma’s ability to resolve entity names even with misspellings, transliterations, or variations in spelling. By using Golang, a high-performance language, Sigma ensures rapid processing and scalability.

The platform also uses generative AI to create thousands of variations of common names, reducing false positives and allowing compliance teams to focus on true threats. As the AI continuously learns from real-world input, it becomes more accurate, detecting links between individuals, organizations, and countries that traditional systems may miss.

This combination of speed, accuracy, and continuous learning makes Sigma360 an essential tool for identifying risks quickly and efficiently.

3) Uncovering Hidden Risks with Advanced Network Analysis

As financial crimes grow more sophisticated and global, businesses need to look beyond individual transactions or clients to identify systemic risks. There needs to be greater focus on a client and network-centric approach. Sigma360’s network analysis feature helps uncover hidden connections between clients, suppliers, partners, and other stakeholders worldwide.

The platform’s network graph allows compliance professionals to visualize relationships and connections between entities. By mapping how individuals are connected to subsidiaries, shell companies, and other stakeholders, Sigma360 helps businesses identify complex networks that would otherwise remain hidden. This kind of analysis is crucial in today’s world, where criminals increasingly use shell companies to mask illicit activities.

Sigma360’s AI-powered network analysis not only uncovers these connections but also evaluates the risks associated with them, whether it’s cross-border sanctions violations, money laundering, or corporate fraud. For example, the addition of our Russia-focused datasets—identifying connections to oligarchs, Putin’s associates, and high-risk regions—provides compliance teams with even more granular insights to detect hidden risks. This comprehensive view enables proactive action and helps businesses avoid costly repercussions.

Why Sigma360?

Sigma360 is more than just another compliance tool—it’s a comprehensive, end-to-end solution that integrates multiple risk management capabilities into one platform. Here’s how Sigma360 helps businesses stay ahead:

By automating key processes and using AI to enhance decision-making, Sigma360 enables businesses to scale their risk management efforts more efficiently and accurately.

Looking to the Future: AI’s Role in the Next Generation of Risk Management

As the risk landscape continues to evolve, the future of risk management is tightly connected to AI. Businesses need agile tools that can adapt and respond to new threats in real time. Sigma360 is continuously improving to meet these needs, with upcoming enhancements that will further optimize AI-driven insights and decision-making.

In the future, Sigma360 plans to incorporate more advanced AI features, such as improved network graph analysis and real-time link prediction models. These developments will empower businesses to predict emerging risks and take preventive action before they escalate.

Sigma360 is not just about responding to risks—it’s about anticipating them. With its powerful AI-driven platform, Sigma360 equips businesses to tackle the challenges of today’s fast-moving regulatory environment. By providing real-time intelligence, uncovering hidden connections, and automating compliance workflows, Sigma360 helps businesses make smarter, faster decisions.

Sigma360 ensures that your compliance operations stay ahead of the curve—today and in the future. With AI-powered insights and an integrated risk management platform, Sigma360 future proofs businesses in an increasingly complex world.

Discover how Sigma360 can transform your compliance operations with a personalized demo or a free trial. Learn more about the platform’s full capabilities and see how it can support your team. Contact us to get started today.

 

About Sigma360
Sigma360's cloud-based data platform has emerged as the definitive choice for point-in-time risk screening and perpetual client monitoring. Underpinned by thousands of fully integrated and hosted data sources and proprietary resolution, risk extraction and scoring algorithms, the platform can identify and return direct and network-based entity risk at sub-second speeds. Sigma360's solutions are used by financial institutions, professional services firms, fintechs and global corporations seeking to consolidate operations into a singular risk intelligence platform and more efficiently manage the entire client lifecycle.

To find out more about Sigma360’s approach to advanced adverse media capabilities please  request your demo today.

How can Sigma360 help me stay ahead? 

Using Sigma360's risk decisioning software platform, organizations can not only get ahead of risk, but leverage unstructured data - like the screening examples highlighted in this article.  


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