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Quanta Risk

Screening that stops guessing

Triage queue beside the resolved entity: 214 open alerts, 78 per cent already auto-cleared
Sector
Regulatory technology
Location
Dubai, UAE
Year
2025
Kickoff to production
15 weeks
01Overview

Sanctions and AML screening rebuilt around entity resolution, so analysts review real matches instead of spelling variants.

02The problem

Legacy screening flagged nineteen names for every genuine hit. Analysts cleared alerts under time pressure, and when the regulator asked why a customer was cleared in March, nobody could reproduce the decision.

1,842 alerts routed by risk tier, and 1,204 duplicates that never became alerts
03What we built
  1. 01

    Resolve the entity, then match

    Transliteration, corporate structures and known aliases resolve into a single entity before screening, which removes the bulk of duplicate alerts outright.

  2. 02

    Risk tiers, not a single queue

    Alerts are scored and routed. Low-risk patterns auto-clear with evidence attached; genuine ambiguity goes to a senior analyst with context already assembled.

  3. 03

    A case file that replays

    Every decision stores the data, list version and model version used, so any past outcome can be reconstructed exactly.

Three aliases collapse into one entity and the match survives every check
An escalation reaches the senior analyst with the context already assembled
04The result

False positives fell sharply and the team passed its next regulatory review with the case files as the primary evidence.

What changed

Screening matches
Entity-resolved
Case files
Replayable
On real hits
Analyst time
The case file a regulator reads: same inputs, same list version, same outcome on replay

Stack

  • Python
  • Postgres
  • Elasticsearch
  • Next.js
  • Airflow

Disciplines applied

  • AI solutions
  • Data & analytics
  • Financial technology

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