Temenos Financial Crime Mitigation
Covering watchlist screening, anti-money laundering, fraud prevention and KYC, our uniquely flexible range of intelligent and versatile solutions enhance detection and reduce cost.
Used by over 300 banks globally (from the global tier 1 to smaller regional Fis), Temenos’ Financial Crime Mitigation (FCM) product family enables banks and FI’s to avoid regulatory fines, detect fraud and mitigate reputational risks whilst improving throughput and optimizing TCO all in line with the banks’ Risk Based Approach.
FCM can be deployed in its entirety or partially to cover only specific business needs. Customers can then add capability as these needs change or evolve.
Why Temenos Financial Crime Mitigation

Industry Leading Levels of Detection Accuracy and False Positives
Industry leading false positive levels (Screen): sophisticated algorithms, smart contextual whitelists and robotic process automation, dramatically reduce overheads and costs. Record hit rate evaluation: clients report double their hit evaluation efficiency (a 250% increase while head count is up only 30%). Efficiency through AI: Proven combination of algorithms rules and Artificial Intelligence

World-Class Performance & Resilience
High performance: Vertical and horizontal scalability ensure FCM delivers exceptional performance together with the highest possible availability. A trusted, fast, and resilient solution, handling exceptional high volumes of transactions and throughput in the industry, the solution is relied upon from small financial institutions to very large banks.

Proven Behavioral Analytics, algorithms and AI combination
Based on key metrics such as income, spending patterns, and transaction types, a unique financial fingerprint or “DNA” is assigned to each customer. Together with prebuilt typologies and self-learning algorithms, this enables identification of both usual and unusual behavior.

Enterprise-Wide Solution
Complete solution: for all financial crime mitigation needs from watch-list screening, KYC, anti-money laundering, and fraud prevention. FCM employs a risk-based approach monitoring ongoing transactions for continual risk assessment, thus enabling financial institutions to focus their effort and resources where most needed. Award winning: #1 best-selling compliance and risk management system (IBS Intelligence Sales League Table 2019). Leading FCM solution: as highlighted by IDC, Ovum & KapronAsia analyst review reports

Flexible and Configurable
A flexible and configurable solution that is fit for institutions of all sizes in all regions, can run on-premises and in the cloud to achieve cheaper implementation efforts and greater efficiencies. Using highly configurable business rules, it allows coverage of specific regional requirements and can easily connect at any core banking system, offering the quickest implementation time in the market.

Easy to Deploy, Supporting Gradual Adoption and Migration
Based on pre-built models that are configurable to an individual bank or FI’s needs, FCM offers fast implementation with low impact installation, and the option to install only those components needed. The phased implementation allows gradual adoption and migration at any level. Additional specialist consultancy services available provided by Temenos Professional Services for Risk Based Approach guidance on AML, Sanctions and KYC best practice.

Enhanced User Productivity With Workflow Management
Configurable workflow management drastically reduces the total cost of ownership by providing highly efficient tools like case management, alert management, and report builder. This fully flexible solution satisfies all the operational needs of any FI.

Technology
Using the most advanced cloud native, cloud-agnostic and API-first technologies, FCM can be deployed on-premise, in private or public cloud or delivered as a service (SaaS).
Measurable Success
2+ MILLION
Transactions per hour
15+
Years of proprietary data enhances detection with banks, cities and country lexicons
50+
Reduces bank’s TCO
< 2.5%
False positive rates
Product Overview
A single product family designed to mitigate the full range of financial crime activities and support all user functions including alert management, case management, reporting and dashboards.
Componentized, the product can be deployed in its entirety or partially to cover only specific business needs. Customers can then add capability as these needs change or evolve.

Fraud Detection – Suspicious Activity Prevention
S.A.P. uses a combination of sophisticated algorithms and expert business rules to block suspicious transactions based on real-time behavioral analysis. In this way it allows clients to identify in real-time fraudulent transactions as they occur. It uniquely builds user and customer profiles to detect and stop suspicious transactions. Looking at attributes such as balance, frequency, transaction amount, currency, and transaction type parameters can be combined and compared to “usual behavior” or predefined patterns.
The Peer Group Identifier (PGI) extends SAPs’ capabilities, by providing of a comparison of a customer’s activity to other customers who under normal circumstances provide a similar financial activity footprint, allowing banks to focus the detection and investigation efforts on the highest risk transactions. Once deployed, PGI provides a comparison of customer behaviour to that of their peers, or a time-based comparison of overall peer group behaviour. Therefore enhancing detection and improved alert quality.

Anti-Money Laundering – Profile
Profile is a pre-packaged anti-money laundering solution that provides web-enabled, end-to-end customer profiling and transaction monitoring which easily integrates into any core-banking platform. Full control is also ensured through flexible configuration as well as packaged report generation templates and customized reporting reduces data mining costs. Profile’s processing and detection engines are accurate, fast, easy to configure, and simple to use. It ensures clarity through comprehensive dashboards and reports.
The Peer Group Identifier (PGI) extends Profiles’ risk based approach capabilities, by providing of a comparison of a customer’s activity to other customers who under normal circumstances provide a similar financial activity footprint. Once deployed, PGI provides a comparison of customer behaviour to that of their peers, or a time-based comparison of overall peer group behaviour, therefore enhancing detection and improved alert quality.

Watchlist Screening – Screen
Using sophisticated algorithms, smart contextual whitelists, and robotic processes automation dramatically reduces overheads and costs by reducing “false positive” alerts. Screen protects your business by screening your customers and all types of transactions against watch lists (including sanctions). Its versatile, risk-based approach integrates lists from various sources; public, commercial or private applying geographical and business rules. Sophisticated algorithms and highly effective scanning methods deliver the lowest rate of “false positive” alerts in the industry without compromising your detection accuracy. Screen’s flexible workflow framework allows you to define roles/access rights, context-based validation and 2, 3 or any number of review steps (including 4-eye) with the objective of operator productivity and accuracy. Screen provides additional complementary features such as sophisticated wizards to further reduce false positives; a comprehensive solution for all your screening needs.

KYC & EDD – KnowCustomer Plus (KC+)
KC+ is a risk-based solution that allows banks to formalize information and calculate risk based on customer attributes. KC+ allows banks to formalize customers’ information according to their risk profile. At the account opening process, but also during the entire customer life cycle, KYC workflow builder is using configurable dynamic forms to enable tailored questions to each specific profile. More thorough and advanced than standard KYC (Know Your Customer) solution it uses a detailed matrix including the status, range, and counts to calculate the risk based on customer’s attributes. The system offers the ability to add search criteria filters or create, amend or delete assessments. It uses advanced and fully configurable algorithms to calculate compliance risk scores of new and existing customers based on the customer profile. In this way, the system provides greater flexibility, accuracy, and control.

Risk-Based Approach in Financial Crime
Managing risks is the supreme discipline in banking.
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Lunar – Success Story
Get inspired by the Lunar and Temenos success story. Discover how Lunar used Temenos FCM solution to transform their business.
UBS – Success Story
UBS faces an ongoing challenge to ensure regulatory compliance. To keep pace, UBS uses Temenos Screen, a centralized, automated detection engine that monitors 99% of all global transactions in real-time,…
BMCE – Success Story
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read success story“Within the last two years using the tools from Temenos, we were able to reduce our TCO by approximately 50%, following a major project to identify our cost-saving potential by identifying gaps, centralizing as much as we could and making use of our economies of scale.”
Peter Haener, Head of AML Monitoring and Surveillance Compliance – UBS
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