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AI agents for fintech risk and compliance operations

Summer 2023Founded 202310 peopleLondon, England, United Kingdom

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We help fintech risk and AML compliance teams automate and strengthen routine customer due diligence tasks with LLMs. Our AI assistants slash cost-to-comply, improve risk detection and free up capacity for investigations that require human expertise and decision making. Fintechs and banks use us to automate workflows like running thorough due diligence on a legal entity, reviewing customer documents like registry extracts, proofs of address etc and remediating false positive alerts from their AML systems.

Founders · 2

Edoardo Maschio
Edoardo MaschioFounder
BCG

I was an investment associate and chief of staff @ Rocket Internet early-stage team. Incubated and invested multiple ventures with the fintech team. Previously worked as Junior associate @ Boston Consulting Group.

Ahmed Gaber
Ahmed GaberFounder

I'm Co-founder and CTO at Diligent and I worked in Fintech for more than a decade. Most recently I was VP of engineering at Billie (Europe’s largest B2B BNPL) and led multiple engineering teams on various domains: business identification, fraud, credit, and AML risk. Previously I was a technical PM and software engineer at Funding Circle.

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Feb 2024
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We help risk and AML compliance teams automate routine customer due diligence tasks with Large Language Models

Diligent builds AI assistants to automate routine customer due diligence tasks for fintechs and banks, including entity risk analysis, document review, and remediation of AML false positives. The product integrates with existing systems to output risk reports with audit trails, targeting risk and AML compliance workflows.

From the original launch (Feb 2024) — may be outdated.

Formerly Paylane

FintechFintechComplianceFraud PreventionRegtechAI

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