Outside IQ – Uncovering Risk

Outside IQ – Uncovering Risk

Financial services firms have an affirmative responsibility to know their clients and to make sure they avoid doing business with bad actors, be they criminals, terrorists, etc. Large banks and financial institutions have hired a staff to perform manual screening, but there is at least one technology solution I’ve encountered that can automate much of the process.

DDIQ from Outside IQ is a cognitive computing platform that thinks like an investigator. Outside IQ claims that it identifies risk earlier with faster, more accurate due diligence by intelligently evaluating structured and unstructured content. It searches not only the Internet, but also regulatory information, global media, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) and the deep web.

Essentially, Outside IQ took the intellectual property of financial crime, risk, regulatory and compliance experts and programmed it into their software. The software then makes use of artificial intelligence and search technologies to uncover and flag potentially risky person and companies that are either current or potential clients of you firm.

Outside IQ claims that their solution is scaleable and customizable. In addition, it can provide automated risk classification and tunable screening filters.

DDIQ can help uncover other types of risk as well. For example, it can help with third party and vendor screening, reputational due diligence, and investment due diligence. Results are available through a web portal, a PDF file, or through an API.

While DDIQ is probably overkill for small RIA firms, larger enterprises could no doubt benefit greatly from this service. For further information, visit  http://www.ddiq.com/technology/.

Joel Bruckenstein
Joel Bruckenstein
Joel P. Bruckenstein, CFP®, is Publisher of the T3 Tech Hub (formerly the T3 newsletter) and the producer of the Technology Tools for Today (T3) Advisor Conference, the only annual technology conference for independent advisors, as well as the Technology Tools for Today (T3) Enterprise Conference. He also hosts other technology summits in partnership with thought leaders in the financial services industry (e.g., Brian Hamburger of MarketCounsel) and his own by-invitation-only fintech summit every summer. In 2020, Bruckenstein will produce for the first time a new one-day intensive called T3 Cyber University. Bruckenstein is an internationally acclaimed expert on applied technology as it relates to the financial service industry. He is the co-author of three books: Virtual Office Tools for a High Margin Practice, Tools and Techniques of Practice Management, and Technology Tools for Today’s High Margin Practice. Bruckenstein’s monthly technology columns appeared in Financial Advisor magazine and Financial Planning magazine for many years. In addition, he works in tandem with industry influential Bob Veres, publisher of Inside Information, to produce an annual technology survey for the financial planning community. Bruckenstein accepted the fifth annual Leadership Award bestowed by Bob Veres' Insider's Forum, a conference that brings together the leading figures of the financial planning profession during a main stage presentation at the Insider's Forum held September 6-8, 2017 in Nashville, TN. Bruckenstein has for more than twenty years advised financial service firms of all sizes on improving their technologies, processes and workflows. For more information about Joel Bruckenstein and the services his firm offers, please visit www.JoelBruckenstein.com.

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