Sigma360's Mission & Purpose: H1 2025 Statement from CEO Stuart Jones, Jr.

July 24, 2025

I.

Nothing is more constant than change.

Escalating global tensions, combined with new authorities and shifting enforcement priorities, are creating fast-moving, high-stakes challenges for risk and compliance professionals.

These aren’t just operational hurdles, they’re threats. Threats that become existential for institutions and their leadership if they are not addressed swiftly and decisively.

And conversely, those who get ahead of these clear shifts go on the offense, turning this new landscape into an opportunity to reduce friction and work with the right customers. 

We’ve long argued that routine list screening is no longer sufficient on its own. How could it be?

From the designation of drug cartels as terrorist organizations to the use of maximum-pressure campaigns, threat actors are more incentivized than ever to hide their activity and not stand out. They are unlikely to appear on well-known lists. 

These actors aren’t outside the system. They are inside it and blending into the same financial infrastructure as everyone else. They are hiding in the data, but you have to know how and where to look.

This perspective hasn't always been widely accepted. Many teams stayed within the bounds of regulatory mandates, and we understood why. But we continued to build for those who understood the broader risk and wanted to get in front of it.  

And today, as part of the GENIUS Act, the Secretary of Treasury is asking for “innovative or novel methods, techniques, or strategies that regulated institutions use, or have the potential to use, to detect illicit activity such as money laundering.”  We hear you. 

With this in mind, Sigma360 has delivered the first integrated AML/KYC platform that unifies global risk data, proprietary intelligence, advanced screening, and configurable AI agents, all in one place.  

This end-to-end platform is not only unique, but also powerful and a phase shift for industry.

Now, we can uncover hidden risks in real time and simultaneously transform compliance operations with AI agents that reduce false positives, identify emerging risks and eliminate hours of manual work. 

The result is something fundamentally new: a modern compliance function with infinite intelligence, and an infinite workforce built for the future of finance and the rising threats that we face.

II.

Our team of engineers and data scientists are automating AML/KYC globally.  We are also focused on making the work of financial crime compliance more effective.

Today, compliance is a multi-billion-dollar industry where more than 70% of spend goes to manual tasks even at the most advanced institutions. This reality is upheld by legacy vendors who tell customers: “Hire more people. We can’t tune our results any further.”

This is madness (and maddening for risk managers). It doesn’t scale, nor does it secure the integrity of the financial system which is what we all signed up for. 

But the tide is turning. A convergence is happening. A tipping point across regulatory expectations, technical capability and institutional leadership toward automation and integrated risk insight.  

The compliance team of the near future won’t be sifting through alerts.  They’ll be overseeing models, resolving edge cases, adding deep insight and strengthening detection from end to end.

And that future is now within reach, and we’re building it.

III.

Our discipline and execution are paying off.

We delivered record H1 revenue. This is a mix of customers expanding their spend, as well as new logo growth across financial services and payments, asset management and globally active corporations. 

To accelerate distribution, we’ve signed major partnerships across the audit, advisory, and legal ecosystems, as well as fast growing technology firms in emerging markets. 

Earlier this year, Sigma360 was named the #1 Adverse Media Screening Solution by Chartis Research — a critical capability that lives alongside our world-class sanctions and PEPs screening and workflow tools.  It is also a major driver of revenue and clear differentiation.  

In short: we’re winning.  

We’re winning because we’re relentless. We take ownership. We lead with trust and integrity. We believe we can do good and do well. And we are. 

This is our promise, and it’s how we’ve always operated.

IV.

In late June, we convened the U.S. Treasury and leaders from the world’s top banks and fintechs in New York City to address the threat of global drug trafficking organizations.

Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18–45. It represents a national security threat and a human crisis for our continent.  Disrupting the inconvenient truth and those who enable it is among the highest enforcement priorities of the Department of Justice and on the minds of decision makers. 

We shared typologies, actionable intelligence, and real-world best practices. And we made the case for urgency and bold, innovative approaches to risk detection that transcend business as usual.  

Our vision to bring together more comprehensive data, more intelligent screening, and the promise of AI, has positioned us at exactly the right moment in history to make a difference here and across the many other threats our clients face.  

We will not fail. 

Sincerely,

Stuart Jones, Jr.
Chief Executive Officer
Sigma360