Regtech innovator Lucinity is beginning to attract consideration.
The corporate, headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland, made its Finovate debut final 12 months at FinovateSpring in San Francisco. On the convention, Lucinity demonstrated its AI-enabled copilot, Luci, which boosts monetary crime compliance by way of perception technology, report writing, and automation. The answer makes use of GenAI to streamline duties for compliance professionals, enabling them to make knowledgeable, data-driven selections and to deal with increased order challenges immediately. The expertise performs web searches, background checks, fraud detection, sanctions screening, and extra.
Because the crew defined at FinovateSpring final 12 months, monetary crime fighters spend a major quantity of their time reviewing fraud alerts to find out whether or not or not they’re vital. A serious problem lies in the truth that precisely evaluating the chance of a given alert requires understanding an excellent deal in regards to the context during which the alert occurred. Compounding this problem is the truth that a lot of the data required to do that could be scattered throughout a number of programs, making the method each extra difficult and extra time-consuming. Lucinity’s expertise helps monetary crime professionals simplify and perceive the information shortly; a tier 1 financial institution estimated that Luci may save them $100 million a 12 months by slashing alert evaluate occasions from a median of two.5 hours to 25 minutes.
“What we’re doing with Lucinity is taking totally different transactions, KYC info, and so on. and creating an image or story of what the attainable monetary crime may seem like,” Lucinity Co-founder and CEO Gudmundur Kristjansson defined throughout the firm’s demo. “And with that story, we’re enabling the monetary crime investigators to take the investigation time from hours to minutes.”
The corporate’s improvements have been observed. Simply final month, Lucinity secured the Chartis Analysis Award for Workflow Automation. The dignity acknowledges the best way the corporate’s expertise leverages AI and automation to boost compliance processes and take away inefficiencies. Lucinity was additionally named to Chartis Analysis’s prime 50 Monetary Crime and Compliance Corporations (FCC50) for 2024.
“By way of our concentrate on workflow automation, Lucinty is ready to save 1000’s of hours from the investigation course of, drastically lowering the price of compliance for monetary establishments,” Kristjansson stated. “Which means banks can then shift assets to revenue-generating areas of the enterprise, moderately than pouring extra assets into compliance.”
Lucinity enters 2024 with a number of recent partnerships. Icelandic neobank indó, monetary crime preventing platform Neterium, and fellow Finovate alum Trustly have been among the many companies Lucinity joined forces with in 2023. This 12 months, along with the accolades talked about above, the corporate introduced the appointment of Theresa Bercich as Chief Product Officer and recognition of her as a Co-Founder. In a press release, Kristjansson credited Bercich for her work on Luci and for her contributions to the corporate as an entire. “Her journey from an information scientist to VP of Product, and now to CPO and Co-founder, mirrors the expansion and dynamic evolution of Lucinity itself,” Kristjansson stated.
Lucinity has raised greater than $25 million in funding. The corporate’s complete contains an funding of $17 million it raised in 2022. Eager Enterprise Companions led that Collection B spherical.
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