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Detecting and Preventing Financial Crime with Cloudera’s Data Platform

Financial crime is a significant threat to banks and financial institutions, requiring advanced analytics and machine learning technologies to detect and prevent it. In this article, we will explore how Cloudera’s data platform can help financial services firms combat financial crime.

Introduction

Financial crime, including money laundering, terrorist financing, and cybercrime, poses a significant risk to the stability of the global financial system. To combat this threat, financial institutions must have advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities to detect and prevent financial crime. Cloudera’s data platform provides a hybrid data management system that can handle structured and unstructured data from various sources.

Cloudera Data Platform

The Cloudera Data Platform is a hybrid data management system that can handle batch and streaming data, providing flexibility and scalability for financial services firms. Its key features include:

  • Hybrid data management: Handles both structured and unstructured data
  • Batch and streaming data: Supports both batch and real-time analytics
  • Scalability: Scalable architecture to support large amounts of data

Use Cases

Several financial services firms have successfully used Cloudera’s data platform to detect and prevent financial crime. Here are a few examples:

  • Regions Bank: Improved risk scoring by 95%, reduced false-positive alerts by 30%, and decreased average daily dollar losses by 50% using Cloudera’s data platform.
  • United Overseas Bank (UOB): Enhanced Anti-Money Laundering (AML) detection capabilities and reduced the time to identify new links from three months to three weeks.
  • Santander UK: Improved customer experience with greater personalization and relevancy, and protected 3.7 million customers from poor outcomes due to financial crimes.
  • PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI): Automated anomaly detection and realized a 40% reduction in fraud using Cloudera’s data platform.

Benefits of Cloudera Data Platform

The benefits of using Cloudera’s data platform for detecting and preventing financial crime include:

  • Actionable insights: Empowers financial services firms to get clear and actionable insights from complex data anywhere
  • Flexibility: Provides flexibility to run modern analytic workloads anywhere, regardless of where the data resides
  • Cloud agility: Offers ability to move workloads to different cloud environments (public or private) to avoid concentration and lock-in
  • Data governance: Has a common security and governance framework to enable data privacy and compliance

Conclusion

Cloudera’s data platform is a powerful tool for financial services firms to detect and prevent financial crime using advanced analytics and machine learning technologies. Its hybrid data management system, scalability, and flexibility make it an ideal choice for financial institutions looking to combat financial crime. By leveraging Cloudera’s data platform, financial services firms can improve risk scoring, reduce false-positive alerts, and protect their customers from poor outcomes due to financial crimes.