Cross-institution AML and fraud collaboration#
Catch the criminals who move between banks, the ones your analysts cannot see, without sharing or pooling a single customer record.
The problem
Financial crime does not stay inside one bank. Mule networks, fraud rings and sanctioned parties deliberately spread activity across institutions, because no single bank can see the whole picture. Your analysts see only your side of it. A customer who looks clean to you may already be flagged at the bank down the road, and today you have no way to know. Catching this needs a view across institutions. But you cannot share customer data, and you cannot pool it.
Why the usual approaches fall short
Pooling was tried and shut down. The Netherlands built TMNL, a shared transaction database across its largest banks, and regulators wound it down in 2024, calling it mass surveillance with no legal basis. Red-flag-only utilities like Singapore's COSMIC do work, but they are closed clubs of a few large banks, and most institutions are not inside them. And ordinary privacy tooling decrypts your data inside someone else's server, which no compliance team will accept for financial crime data.
What we do
We run the check on data that never leaves its owner and is never decrypted. Each side encrypts its own records on its own machine, with its own key. The computation runs on the encrypted data, on infrastructure that never holds plaintext, and only the result comes back. Only the owner can read it. You collaborate on financial crime without anyone, including us, ever seeing the underlying records.
What you can do
- ›Screen your customer base against a partner's confirmed mule list, or against a sanctions or watchlist, and receive only the matches. No browsing, no fishing, just the hits.
- ›Count how many flagged or high-risk customers you share with a partner institution, learning the number and the overlap and nothing else about their book.
- ›Run it on a schedule, so newly identified mules and newly sanctioned parties surface as soon as a partner flags them.
- ›Start one-sided, screening your customers against a single shared list, with no second institution needed to get value on day one.
Why legal and compliance can sign off
Nothing is pooled. Nothing is decrypted by anyone but the owner of the data. Each side learns only the answer, never the other side's records. This is the minimal-disclosure, red-flag-gated model that regulators already endorse, so your legal team and your regulator can sign off.