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Building a Centre of Excellence, & other treats from the Quantexa Community
🎃 No Tricks, Just Treats: October Top Picks 👻 🆕Library Area: Centre of Excellence Introducing our new Community Library area filled with articles on building a Quantexa Centre of Excellence including deep dives into people, processes, and technology. Highlights include: Overview: Building a Centre of Excellence People:…
Announcing our latest Community Member Spotlight... @deningj
Announcing our latest Community Member Spotlight... @deningj Joe recently joined Quantexa's User Research Panel, and participated in an exclusive Q Assist Testing & Feedback Session. Providing detailed insights and invaluable feedback to Quantexa's Product Team earned Joe the October Community Member of the Month accolade.…
📣 Announcing Our Upcoming Webinar: Tips & Tricks for Managing Large and Complex Networks 📣
We’re excited to announce our upcoming session based on the very popular article Tips & Tricks for Managing Large and Complex Networks by @Stacey_Parsons. In this session, Stacey will team up with @Mark_Cossey, Head of Product Design, and @Matt_Long, Head of AML Solutions, to delve into practical strategies and new…
Quantexa's SME newly released SME classifier - are you accurately identifying your SME customers?
Quantexa has introduced a new classifier for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) based on European Commission guidelines, designed to scale for extensive legal hierarchies. This tool addresses the critical need for accurate SME classification, which plays a significant role in various sectors, including credit risk…
Resources for Investigators 🔎
📚️ Did you know you can find everything in the Community tagged with Investigators in one place? Check it out here: 💡 You'll also find a page for all ideas relating to investigations in the right-hand side of the panel on our Ideas Portal: Our Investigator collection includes: A day in the life of… Investigator including:…
Tips & Tricks for Managing Large and Complex Networks - Update for 2.5 & 2.6
As an investigator you may have found that the use of entities and networks are helpful for identifying potential risk in the investigation process, using connections across documents and entities. However, seeing all the available data connected by way of transaction flows, trades, direct links or indirect links can…
Elasticsearch and Why We Use It
This article gives an overview of what Elasticsearch is, and how and why it's used at Quantexa. If you're a data scientist, business analyst, or an end user, this piece will give you some useful context for what Elasticsearch is all about. What is Elasticsearch? Elasticsearch, or Elastic, is a near real-time, distributed…
Innovate With Us: Introducing the Quantexa Ideas Portal
At Quantexa we’re unstoppable and we’re inviting customers and partners to join us on the journey with our new Community Ideas Portal! Members of the Quantexa Community can submit ideas in our Ideas Portal - these can address anything related to Quantexa, from the Quantexa Decision Intelligence Platform to the Quantexa…
📊 POLL: Which feature of Quantexa 2.5 are you most excited for? 📊
We've just launched 2.5! Read about it in Release Announcements. Find this poll interesting? Why not join our User Research Panel
Introducing the Quantexa User Research Panel
We are excited to introduce our User Research Panel, which will give you the opportunity to directly collaborate with our product department and provide feedback to us by taking part in early access testing of new features, product interviews and surveys. We're just getting started and we'd like to invite you to be…

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Welcome to Quantexa 2.7 | 2.7.0 Release Announcement
We are pleased to announce the release of Quantexa 2.7.0. This release includes: Graph Scripting QSL (Early Access) Highlights Simplified Interface: Configuration-Based Expansions: Define Batch Graph Scripts using the Quantexa Scripting Language (QSL) with a simplified interface, reducing the need for custom Scala code.…
Welcome to Quantexa 2.7, Becoming a Lead Data Engineer & August Highlights
🏖️August Top Picks Welcome to Quantexa 2.7 | 2.7.0 Release Announcement How I Became a… Lead Data Engineer New Education Program Launch | 🚀 Quantexa Task Loading NEW: Community Suggestion Box 💬 Discussions Not to Miss Announcing Our Upcoming Webinar: Tips & Tricks for Managing Large and Complex Networks 📣 Welcome to…
Welcome to Parsers 4.2 | Release Announcement
Alongside the release of QP2.7, we are happy to share the release of 4.2.0 of Standard Parsers. This release extends the cleansing options you can define purely in config - configurable simple generic cleansers. We have introduced new config-based cleansers that allow you to perform replacements in strings, remove and keep…
Driving Adoption of the Quantexa Platform & April Community Highlights
April Top Picks: 📈Driving Adoption of the Quantexa Platform 🏆Last Chance to Enter our Competition: The Knowledge Exchange 📣Release Announcement: Detection Packs 0.3 📣 New Education Program Launch 🚀 | Quantexa User Foundations Release 2 📣Quantexa successfully recertifies with the British Standards Institution - member…
Welcome to Quantexa 2.6 | 2.6.0 Release Announcement
We are pleased to announce the release of Quantexa 2.6. Highlights: Uncover insights in highly-connected data with QKnowledgeGraph [Experimental] Build and query Graphs quickly and easily with the new Graph API [Early Access] Vulnerability Management Configure Explorer through the Quantexa User Interface (UI) Reduce…
Welcome to Quantexa 2.4 | 2.4.0 Release Announcement
We are pleased to announce the release of Quantexa 2.4, your fourth major update to Quantexa 2. Highlights In this release, you will find: Simplified deployment of best-in-class Entity Resolution with ER Accelerate; Powerful new features including Entity Explorer and Entity Quality Score; More matching tools and…
Welcome to Quantexa 2.5 | 2.5.0 Release Announcement
We are pleased to announce Quantexa 2.5! Read below for a few exciting highlights. Stream Updates to the Entity Store The Entity Store can now be updated with a streamed ingest of new Documents, and creates a change log describing how the Entity population has changed. In combination with the ability to query the full…
Welcome to Parsers 4 | Parsers 4.0.0 Release Announcement
We are excited to announce the version 4.0 release of Quantexa's Standard Parsers. This release marks a shift in the way the Standard Parsers are used, and it includes an expansion of the data models so that more information is made available for use in Entity Resolution. Here are a few of the features you’ll find in this…
Welcome to Parsers 4.1 | Release Announcement
We are excited to announce the release of version 4.1 of Quantexa's Standard Parsers. This release focuses on improving the integration with Fusion UI (look out for exciting 2.6 release announcements coming soon) and improvements of the file structure of configuration files. This release includes the following highlights,…

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What can Network structure tell us about risk?
By Matt Jackson and Christina Tkachenko Background Corporate registry Documents provide useful structured information for use in risk modelling. In particular, the information within can be a good indicator of suspicious activity. Yet, sometimes this information is not enough to inform a decision or take an action. By…
AI at Quantexa
AI is at the heart of the Quantexa Decision Intelligence Platform, helping users unify data and create context to make accurate and reliable decisions. Machine Learning (ML) and AI are applied in four distinct areas within the Quantexa Platform: Composite AI within Quantexa The Quantexa Platform uses multiple AI techniques…
A day in the life of Monty... Chief Innovation Mascot
To fully explain Monty’s role as a chief innovation mascot we need to first start with some other introductions. Let’s start with @Parsa_Ghaffari , entrepreneur extraordinaire, previous CEO of Aylien (now part of Quantexa and known as News Intelligence), initial creator of Q Assist and Head of Product Innovation. Product…
A day in the life of... a Technical Business Analyst
The Business Analyst Team serves as a key link between our technical developers and the end users. Our role is to help clients navigate their journey towards achieving optimal technical and business solutions across a variety of use cases. Day-to-day, we collaborate with Project Managers, Technical Leads (TLs), Solution…
3. Quantexa Best Practice: Move Fast, Break Less, 😊 More
This article is to explain the benefits of following Quantexa's Best Practice when delivering your Quantexa deployment, and provide a high level view of what those best practices are. Why follow Quantexa’s Best Practice? Quantexa’s Best Practice is born from real-world learnings. These learnings developed practices that…
1. Multi Use Case Best Practice
The Quantexa Platform is not a point solution; it has been developed on fundamental principles of flexibility and scalability, and supports multiple business applications or use cases in a single system. Many Quantexa deployments will originally serve a single use case, although some may be intended for broader use from…
A Day in the Life of a... Data Engineer
The Data Engineering team at Quantexa is responsible for implementing Quantexa’s technology solutions for clients worldwide, spanning various sectors such as banking, insurance, government, and healthcare. We manage the entire data pipeline, from ETL processes to UI configuration. Our tasks include ingestion of the data,…
4. Using Quantexa Kafka Streaming for the First Time
Quantexa integrates Kafka as its primary streaming platform to process, ingest, and generate networks in near real-time, leveraging its powerful Entity Resolution, and Big Data capabilities. Quantexa provides out-of-the-box applications such as Kafka Record-Extraction and Kafka Document-Ingest, designed to streamline data…
Introduction to User Journey Analytics
What is User Journey Analytics (UJA)? User Journey Analytics (UJA) is a service developed as part of the Quantexa Platform that tracks and collates end-user activity, enabling analysis and understanding of usage data to help maximize the value of the Quantexa Platform. How does UJA work? UJA receives events from the User…
A Day in the Life of ... a Global Partner
Meet Phil Phil is the Global Partner of NextWave’s Quantexa Partnership overseeing business development, solution success and delivery success. In addition to managing several other strategic alliances, Phil co-leads the NextWave data practice, where Quantexa plays a pivotal role as a core solution capability. Who are…

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Perspective: Addressing SEC-Identified AML Program Deficiencies at Broker-Dealers
In this article, @Andrea_Walser analyses and highlights key themes in AML compliance shortcomings identified in a July 2023 Risk Alert published by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Examinations. The article goes on to explore the meaning of a 360° Client View and how you can use Quantexa's KYC…
Uplifting sanctions/export controls and breaking anonymity
A Canadian national and a New York resident pleaded guilty this week to conspiracy to commit export control violations for their roles in a global procurement scheme on behalf of sanctioned Russian companies. Some of the electronic components shipped by the defendants were later found in seized Russian weapons platforms…
Fraud for Thought: The Emerging Threat of Synthetics in Insurance
In a compelling interview from my "Fraud for Thought" podcast, we dive deep into the world of fraud prevention with @Steve_Lenderman who has decades of experience in the field - particularly with regards to emerging digital fraud typologies. We explored one of those such themes - Synthetics - and the risk it now poses to…
📣Master Data Management UI Demo & Feedback Sessions
In the coming weeks, we'll be running demo & feedback sessions on our new Master Data Management UI. You'll get to see an exclusive demo of our new UI and provide your feedback and insights in a small focus group setting. Available Sessions (login required): Session 1: Thursday, June 13th (3:30 PM - 4:15 PM BST) Session…
Catch up on the latest from our solution & industry user groups 💬
Here's what you might have missed this month from our Data Management, Financial Crime, Insurance, and KYC Specialist User Groups: How Can Decision Intelligence Help Identify Medical Provider Facilitation & Collusion? Reimagining Monitoring and Detection Advancing Correspondent Banking Insights: Managing Respondent Banks…
A Tale of Two Investigations: Transforming Financial Crime Risk Monitoring and Investigations
The adoption of technologies to enhance financial crime risk monitoring has become ubiquitous within the banking sector. These technologies span a spectrum, ranging from the automation of fairly binary controls to the deployment of black-box Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. Regulators are increasingly advocating for…
Investigating Network Fraud: 4 Key Areas for Investigators
Following on from my article on why networks are important – I regularly talk with investigators on how best to identify and investigate organised network fraud. I am mindful that there are a lot of seasoned investigators out there so in this article I will be talking basics and from a perspective of using technology only…
FCA Dear CEO letter for wealth management and stockbroking firms - Are you doing enough?
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has published a ‘Dear CEO’ letter this week to wealth management and stockbroking firms. The letter highlights two areas of concern, prevention of financial crime and implementation of the Consumer Duty. Specifically related to Financial Crime, it notes that the FCA expects firms to: not…
Event Roundup: Global Insurance Fraud Summit - Edinburgh
This month, the Quantexa team and customers participated in the Global Insurance Fraud Summit (GIFS). This summit aims to bring together global consortia and insurance organisations as well as law enforcement such as the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) and Interpol. Quantexa and our customers participated in…
Chris Bagnall's 3-Part Series on Human Trafficking
In the article "Understanding and Identifying Sex Trafficking" @Chris_Bagnall, from our Product Management department, discusses the following key points: Definition of Sex Trafficking Diverse Business Models: Sex trafficking doesn't always involve sophisticated international criminal networks, as portrayed in Hollywood.…

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