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WatchDog™

Decision Override Governor - The human-intelligent layer for precise AML screening.

A Human Intelligent rule-based system for clearing False Positives

Reviews the results of DecisionIQ AI for False Positives

Customizable Rules as per your Risk-based approach

Proprietary Scoring better than Fuzzy

Filters hit results based on rules and patterns

Auto-clears False Positives

HOW THE WATCHDOG SYSTEM WORKS

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An Individual or Business Entity Name is scanned using Adhoc, Batch or API

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Elasticsearch is used to identify hits within a Fuzzy score range.

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KYC2020 DecisionIQ AI reviews hits and returns as actionable (PASS|FAIL|VERIFY) screening decisions.

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KYC2020 Watchdog (“DOG”) generates Hit Patterns, Name Relevancy Scores and uses AI to predict Gender & Nationality Match Confidence of Hit names.

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Pre-defined rules are used to eliminate False Positives per your risk-based approach.

DEFAULT RULES

Here are set of default rules that are auto-enabled for WatchDog.

Default Rules can be customized and new rules added as part of professional services. Rules are based on Name Relevancy Score, Risk, Gender, Last Name, Nationality, Country, City, DOB and numerous other filters.

NameDescription
R00-HNRSTunes the system to not auto-clear a result if the Name has a match on a high-risk sanctions list or the NRS score is greater than 92.
R01-LNRSIf NRS Score on Hit is less than 72 Clear this record.
R02-RTMMAutomatically clears ENTITY results from INDIVIDUAL search results and vice-versa.
R03-LNNPAutomatically clears record if the Last Name entered is not present in the result/record.
R04-LNMMAutomatically clears record if the Last Name entered is not matched in the result/record.
R05-GTMMClears the record if the Gender derived from the name search does not match the gender of the name hit.
R06-DBMMClears those results which have a different DOB than the one mentioned in the search filter.
R07-NTMAutomatically clears the record if the Nationality derived from the name does not match the Nationality in the record hit.
R08-AOMMAutomatically clears the record if the Country in the record hit differs from the Country entered.
R09-ETMMClears the record if it has been identified as type Individual but the search was for Entity.
R10-AIMMAutomatically clears the record if the City in the record hit differs from the City entered.
R11-LRWLAuto clear if the list of the record hit does not fall into the designated High-Risk List.
R14-UNMMAuto clear entity records with specified CODA and NRS for Unique name part & business type is lesser than 90.
R1E-LNRSAuto clear the records where NRS score for Unique name part & business type is lesser than 90.
RID_DNCDo not Clear if the record matches with ID entered.

DOG Results in Proof-of-Decision File

KYC2020 WatchDog Proof-of-Decision DOG Results Sample
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