Sigma360 and Consilient, a pioneer in federated machine learning for financial crime discovery and prevention, have announced a strategic partnership.
The integration addresses a critical challenge faced by financial institutions: the “silo effect,” in which disconnected systems and data prevent compliance teams from seeing the full risk picture.
By combining their respective technologies, the two companies aim to deliver what they describe as a first-of-its-kind solution for global financial crime prevention, moving the industry beyond static, periodic reviews toward continuous risk assessment.
Sigma360’s platform automates the transition from periodic lookbacks to perpetual KYC (pKYC), enabling continuous risk assessment driven by real-time data and entity intelligence.
Its entity resolution, sanctions screening and adverse media capabilities are designed to surface sophisticated money laundering schemes that remain invisible to legacy, rules-based tools. The platform reduces the volume of false alerts that burden compliance teams, allowing them to focus on the highest-risk threats.
Consilient’s federated learning technology enables financial institutions to collaborate and continuously improve AI models across organisations without moving or sharing personally identifiable information (PII). These models enhance risk discovery, transaction monitoring and customer due diligence, supporting a proactive and collaborative approach to uncovering illicit activity with greater accuracy.
Together, the integration provides a 360-degree view of risk, aligning entity intelligence with KYC and illicit transactional behavioural patterns. Existing detection systems are strengthened with continuously improving models that learn and adapt in real time, creating what the companies describe as an “always-on brain” for compliance departments.
As financial crime and regulatory scrutiny intensify, the combined intelligence is designed to increase detection precision and significantly reduce the alert noise that exhausts compliance teams — empowering them to identify and act on the most significant risks across data sets, institutions and borders.
Sigma360 chief executive Stuart Jones, Jr. said, “The industry has reached a tipping point where traditional, siloed defenses are no longer sufficient. Through integration with Consilient, Sigma360 has moved beyond data aggregation. We deliver an integrated ‘always-on brain’ for compliance departments that learns, adapts and identifies risk at scale.”
The partnership delivers a first-of-its-kind solution for global financial crime prevention. “Consilient’s mission is to transform financial crime prevention through collaboration and advanced AI,” said Ajit Tharaken, CEO of Consilient. “Partnership with Sigma360 allows us to embed our federated learning capabilities into the workflow of pKYC (perpetual KYC) and transaction monitoring, creating one seamless solution – a formidable barrier against illicit actors – while protecting data privacy.”
Consilient chair and co-founder Juan Zarate said, “There is a fundamental need to apply new technology to transform the discovery and prevention of financial crime risk. The Sigma360 and Consilient partnership advances this and represents the leading-edge of dynamic, effective compliance risk management enabling federated collaboration across data sets, institutions, and borders.”
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