Catch more real risk. Chase fewer false alerts.
Most monitoring systems drown investigators in noise while sophisticated typologies slip through. We combine hands-on platform expertise, data science and explainable AI to make your transaction monitoring sharper, leaner and fully defensible to regulators.
- TM programmes delivered
- 25+
- Leading platforms mastered
- 6
- Core disciplines
End-to-End Delivery
From risk assessment and segmentation to rule design, tuning, calibration, and post go-live assurance.
Advanced Analytics & AI
Statistical testing, ML augmentation, and explainability frameworks that strengthen detection and transparency.
Global Delivery
Trusted by banks, fintechs and consultancies across the UK, EU, Middle East and the Americas.
Trusted teams
Experience across banks, consultancies, and global risk functions.




















Full-Spectrum Financial Crime Analytics From Strategy to Operations
DataWise Forensics sits alongside risk, compliance, technology, and investigation teams to build programmes that are insightful, efficient, and defensible.
Source validation, lineage mapping, and enrichment strategies that give analytics teams confidence in every data element feeding TM engines.
Scenario and model optimisation driven by statistical testing, ML augmentation, and explainability for stakeholders across the three lines of defence.
Model validation packs, change control, and reporting frameworks aligned to regulatory expectations in major financial centres.
Network analytics, typology libraries, and workflow tuning that strengthen case management for AML, sanctions, fraud, and ABC teams.
A Specialised Consultancy Built for Complex Financial Crime Analytics Challenges
DataWise Forensics operates from London with a global remit. We partner with banks and other institutions to strengthen transaction monitoring, sanctions, investigations, and anti-bribery controls with measurable, explainable analytics.
What Makes Us Different
- Independent specialists who have delivered large-scale TM transformations within global banks and consulting firms.
- Blended teams across data science, model validation, investigations, and operational change for cohesive delivery.
- Flexible engagement models—from strategic diagnostics to embedded squads guiding execution and assurance.
Track Record Highlights
- Enterprise-wide TM implementations covering retail, commercial, correspondent, and payments businesses.
- Remediation and regulatory response programmes addressing data, coverage, and evidencing findings.
- Analytics labs augmenting rule-based systems with supervised and unsupervised ML in controlled environments.
Trusted Collaboration
We embed with compliance, analytics, engineering, operations, and audit teams—ensuring knowledge transfer, sustainable ownership, and transparency across stakeholders.
Trusted by financial and non-financial institutions
We support banks and non-financial firms with financial crime risk.
Banks and financial institutions
Retail, commercial, correspondent, and private banking teams that need transparent models, defensible alerts, and clear regulatory narratives.
Non-financial institutions
Corporates, marketplaces, and regulated firms with financial crime exposure that require practical controls and measurable outcomes.
Payments and fintech
Fast-moving platforms with high-volume transaction monitoring, rapid investigations, and clear audit trails.
Professional services
Risk, compliance, and advisory teams that need stronger analytics, faster QA, and reusable playbooks.
Tailored Support Across the Financial Crime Analytics Lifecycle
Engagements are modular and responsive—whether you need targeted expertise to unblock a workstream or an embedded squad to deliver large-scale transformation.
- Current state diagnostics, target operating model, and roadmap
- Acceleration of design through typology playbooks and scenario sandboxes
- Structured go-live support, coverage assessment, and regulator-facing evidence
- Threshold tuning, segmentation optimisation, and sensitivity analysis
- Explainable AI overlays, challenger models, and validation frameworks
- Management dashboards spanning workload, typology coverage, and investigator productivity
- Entity resolution and graph analytics tools surfacing hidden relationships
- Case triage, risk scoring, and alert enrichment automation
- Investigator enablement, typology libraries, and training for cross-functional teams
Vendor-Neutral. Platform-Fluent.
We have configured, tuned, validated and migrated the industry's leading financial crime platforms — so we get value out of your existing investment from day one.
NICE Actimize
SAM / IFM scenario design, tuning and policy manager configuration
Oracle Mantas (FCCM)
Scenario thresholds, data mapping and behaviour detection calibration
Fiserv AML Risk Manager
Rule libraries, risk scoring and alert workflow optimisation
FICO TONBELLER (Siron)
Siron AML/KYC profiling, rule tuning and implementation assurance
Quantexa
Entity resolution, network analytics and contextual investigations
ThetaRay
AI anomaly detection, model validation and explainability overlays
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A Lifecycle Approach That Integrates Analytics, Risk, and Operations
Every engagement follows a structured delivery model, adapted for either in-house builds or vendor platforms. Clients can enter at any phase—our teams slot into existing initiatives or run end-to-end programmes.
Diagnose & Define
Map inherent risks, regulatory obligations, and current control maturity. We establish strategy, target operating model, business requirements, and delivery roadmap in collaboration with stakeholders across three lines of defence.
Design & Engineer
Develop segmentation models, detection logic, data pipelines, and change control structures. We partner with technology teams and vendors to ensure design is implementable and transparent.
Test, Tune & Operationalise
Run scenario simulations, statistical testing, and calibration sprints to balance detection and workload. We stand up MI, case management enhancements, and investigator enablement.
Evidence & Assure
Produce validation documentation, model inventories, risk appetite alignment, and data lineage evidence. We guide supervisory responses and internal audit reviews.
Optimise & Evolve
Embed continuous monitoring, typology refresh cycles, AI augmentation, and dashboarding so TM programmes remain effective amid shifting risks and regulations.
Recent Programmes and Measurable Impact
Each brief is anonymised and tailored to demonstrate the scale and complexity of work typically undertaken.
- Established typology-driven risk assessment aligned to business lines and geographies
- Designed 45+ behavioural and threshold-based scenarios with documented detection logic and evidential testing
- Executed alert and case back-book reviews to quantify exposure and evidence historical decisioning
- Restored lineage confidence by reconciling 15 critical feeds, mapping severity, and fixing upstream breaks
- Delivered scenario enhancements, calibration, and documentation that satisfied supervisory assurance checkpoints
- Built feature pipelines and challenger models that uncovered typologies legacy rules missed while maintaining precision
- Delivered clear business reason codes and visual narratives explaining why each alert was triggered
- Mapped multi-jurisdiction entity relationships to surface indirect links and hidden counterparty exposure
- Delivered investigative workbenches and dashboards that triaged alerts, historical wires, and external intelligence
Outline Your Monitoring Challenge
Share a short brief on your objectives—discovery conversations help define where analytics, governance, or assurance support is most valuable.