Decision Systems for Trade Finance - GA Announcement

We’re excited to announce that Decision Systems Trade Finance has now moved to General Availability as of 2.8. This is a significant milestone that lays the foundations for Decision Systems within Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence Platform.

What Are Decision Systems?

Decision Systems are Quantexa’s configuration-driven scoring solutions, built on  Assess. They are designed for rapid configuration of use case specific decisioning models —enabling faster deployment, consistent performance, and easier adoption across supported use cases.

Decision Systems empowers users to:

• Leverage the full power of Assess without writing code.
• Move quickly from resolved Entities and Graphs to actionable insights.
• Use out-of-the-box scores and scoring models based on best practices and domain expertise.
• Focus on decision execution, reducing time spent on data wrangling and complex data engineering.

Supported Use Cases

For our most proven solutions in Financial Crime monitoring and compliance, we provide baseline coverage across the entire decision lifecycle, from data, to insight, to decisions with Decision Systems.

Supported use cases in 2.8

• Trade Finance – General Availability
• Capital Markets – Early Access
• Retail Banking – Early Access

If you're working on a FinCrime use case not listed, Decision Systems may still be applicable depending on maturity. To determine fit—even for Trade Finance—please speak to your Quantexa Solution Architect to get started.

Highlights

Although Trade Finance is being announced these highlights are applicable to all supported use cases. 

Simpler User Experience

Conditional Configuration

You can now dynamically generate only the necessary configuration to deploy your scoring solution, reducing manual effort, improving clarity, and enabling scalable support for new use cases and product capabilities.

Simplified Scorecard, Severity, and Scorecard Group Configuration

Streamlined configuration ensures that scores and triggers contribute logically and transparently to final decisions—reducing configuration time and improving investigator efficiency.

Simplify Score Roll-Up to Customer, Counterparty, and Relationship

You can easily configure the aggregation of transaction, entity, and network risk to customers, counterparties, and relationships without duplicating setup thus, reducing required knowledge, setup time, and improving consistency.

Centralized Definitions and Validations on Entity, Relationship and Network Scores

You can benefit from centralized configuration, validation, and auto-generation of inputs which ensures consistency and reduces time spent on setup and debugging.

Optimized Outcomes

Segmentation

You can now configure segmentation across scores and scorecards with a simplified, centralised setup which tailors scoring to the subject being alerted, all without modifying your ETL.

Score Coverage

New customer and relationship transaction scores. Including round amounts, unusual transaction types, dormancy, and hub-and-spoke patterns. This greatly expands coverage and enables detection of a wider range of insights.

Trade Finance General Availability

Trade Finance refers to the provision of finance and services by Financial Institutions (FIs) for the movement of goods and services, domestically or cross-border.

Trade-Based Money Laundering (TBML) is a broad term that includes illicit transactions both within and outside formal Trade Finance operations. This use case focuses specifically on TBML risks represented by transactional documents within Trade Finance.

The following graph illustrates a typical Document–Entity model for the Trade Finance use case:

For full details of the release, please see Decision Systems on the documentation site.

• Release notes
• Migration guide

Trade Finance Explainer Videos

Our series of explainer videos guides you through deploying a Trade Finance FinCrime scoring solution using Decision Systems.

Decision Systems User Journey

These videos are not a substitute for following the documentation during a deployment. Please ensure you refer to our documentation site for the complete deployment tutorial.

00. Introduction

We outline the key outcomes of Decision Systems and summarize the key configuration steps. The following videos will describe those steps in more detail.

01. Configuring Your Solution

To get started, we show how to select your use case and define scoring subjects, such as customers and their relationships.

02. Performing Data Mapping

Next, we show how to map outputs from data ingestion to the selected use case. The mapping process ensures that the original meaning of the data is preserved and remains consistent across your organization. No changes to the source data are required.

03. Configuring Your Scores

We walk through the process of configuring a score using available templates. We show how to define severity levels and UI descriptions. As an example, we use the score Customer with Social Link to Watchlist.

04. Configuring Your Scorecards

A scorecard is a key part of a scoring system, translating the complex data into a structured, interpretable score that drives consistent, data-informed decisions. This video shows how to build scorecards by selecting scores, assigning weightings, and grouping related scores.

05. Configuring Your Alerting

A critical part of the scoring process is communicating key insights to users and stakeholders. We outline how to configure alerting logic to ensure alerts are meaningful and contain new insights. We explore four key alerting modules:

• When the overall score exceeds a threshold
• When a scenario triggers but hasn’t been recently alerted
• When a scenario’s contribution to the score increases
• When new information is detected in a scenario

06. Adding an Additional Score

For the occasions when you need to adapt your existing scoring solution to incorporate additional scores, this video demonstrates how to add the score Relationship Trading in High-Risk Jurisdiction.

07. Configuring Your Segmentation

We show how to define and apply your preferred segmentation to your scores and scorecards. In this case, we exemplify how to account for differences between large corporate and SME customers.

08. Investigating Your Alerts

In the final video, we will take you through a full Trade Finance FinCrime Solution in the UI. You will be able to see alert, scorecard and scores.