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AML, KYC, PEP

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Anti-Money Laundering

Records on sanctions and watch lists for AML are relatively small in number, but the consequences for missing a match can be severe.

Every organization wants to use the most accurate matching engine to prevent such misses while minimizing false positives, rather than being complacent about what has been done so far.

The challenges of name matching, especially matching against databases of names from various cultures and ethnicities, are enormous. Traditional techniques are far from adequate.

Machine learning-based NetOwl NameMatcher and NetOwl EntityMatcher bring AI to AML so that organizations can put their very best efforts into preventing money laundering and other illegal activities.

Know Your Customer (KYC) Goes Global

In many industries there are laws, regulations, or internal policies that demand vetting of current and prospective customers to ensure that these people and organizations are legitimate to do business with. 

As companies go global, records to match also go global and multilingual. No longer can name matching be done just in English or other Western languages written in Latin alphabets. Names can be in other languages such as Chinese, Arabic, or Cyrillic. Name matching may be done cross-lingually between, say, English and Arabic. 

NetOwl NameMatcher supports such multilingual and cross-lingual matching natively, allowing organizations to perform record matching with high accuracy and speed.

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Politically Exposed People

Doing business with key government officials around the world introduces additional requirements for how a company needs to interact and transact with those individuals to avoid unwittingly participating in briberies and corruptions. Currently there is no official PEP list. Instead multiple organizations provide such lists with varying degrees of coverage.

NetOwl can drastically improve the quality and quantity of the PEP list through its advanced text analytics capabilities. NetOwl’s entityrelationship, and event extraction enables continual update of the PEP data by analyzing a vast amounts of various open source data – including news, web pages, and social media in English and other languages – in real time.

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Featured Blog Posts

Name Matching is Crucial for Transaction Screening as Part of AML

How Name Matching is Crucial for Transaction Screening as Part of AML

Screening transaction parties against watch lists is particularly challenging in a global economy with names from multiple languages and even…

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Cross-language name matching is crucial for customer verification and vetting

How Cross-Language Name Matching is Crucial for Customer Verification and Vetting

In a global economy, financial institutions face the challenge of verifying and vetting their customers’ identity data across different writing…

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Entity Extraction plus Name Matching are critical for up-to-date KYC data

How the Combination of Entity Extraction and Name Matching is Critical for Up-To-Date KYC Data

KYC Data Providers face the challenge of how to ensure their data is comprehensive and up-to-date in an ever-changing world…

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