Sigma360 and Consilient, a pioneer in federated machine learning for financial crime discovery and prevention, have announced a strategic partnership.
The collaboration aims to tackle the “silo effect” — a critical challenge for financial institutions where disconnected systems and data prevent teams from seeing the full risk picture. By combining their respective technologies, the two companies seek to deliver a first-of-its-kind solution for global financial crime prevention, moving the industry beyond static, periodic reviews to continuous risk assessment.
Sigma360’s platform automates the transition from periodic lookbacks to perpetual KYC (pKYC), enabling continuous risk assessment driven by real-time data and entity intelligence. Its entity resolution, sanctions and adverse media screening capabilities are designed to detect sophisticated money laundering schemes that remain invisible to legacy, rules-based and siloed tools.
Consilient’s federated learning technology enables institutions to collaborate and continuously improve AI models across organisations without moving or sharing personally identifiable information (PII). Its models enhance risk discovery, transaction monitoring and customer due diligence, with its mission centred on transforming financial crime prevention through collaboration and advanced AI.
The technical integration combines Sigma360’s real-time risk intelligence with Consilient’s federated learning technology to strengthen existing detection systems with continuously improving models. Together, the companies say the solution delivers a 360-degree view of risk, aligning entity intelligence with KYC and illicit transactional behavioural patterns. Combined intelligence is said to increase precision detection and significantly reduce the “noise” that exhausts compliance teams, empowering them to focus on the highest-risk threats.
As financial crime and regulatory scrutiny continue to intensify, the partnership positions itself as a new standard for financial integrity. The integrated solution is described as an “always-on” compliance capability that learns, adapts and identifies risk at scale, creating what the companies call a formidable barrier against illicit actors while protecting data privacy.
Sigma360 CEO Stuart Jones, Jr. said, “The industry has reached a tipping point where traditional, siloed defenses are no longer sufficient. Through integration with Consilient, Sigma360 has moved beyond data aggregation. We deliver an integrated ‘always-on brain’ for compliance departments that learns, adapts and identifies risk at scale.”
The partnership delivers a first-of-its-kind solution for global financial crime prevention. “Consilient’s mission is to transform financial crime prevention through collaboration and advanced AI,” said Ajit Tharaken, CEO of Consilient. “Partnership with Sigma360 allows us to embed our federated learning capabilities into the workflow of pKYC (perpetual KYC) and transaction monitoring, creating one seamless solution – a formidable barrier against illicit actors – while protecting data privacy.”
Consilient chair and co-founder Juan Zarate said, “There is a fundamental need to apply new technology to transform the discovery and prevention of financial crime risk. The Sigma360 and Consilient partnership advances this and represents the leading-edge of dynamic, effective compliance risk management enabling federated collaboration across data sets, institutions, and borders.”
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