Prospero wins the namechecking benchmark

Released on = November 9, 2006, 7:56 am

Press Release Author = ATech Application & Technology Consulting GmbH

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = In a broad international benchmark test to evaluate the best
namechecking solution, Prospero has achieved significantly the best results, this
means the best detection rates and at he same time the lowest number of false alerts


Press Release Body = Zurich/Vienna/Stuttgart:: A large Swiss insurance company has
made a broad benchmark test to evaluate the best namechecking solution. Prospero has
achieved significantly the best results, this means the best detection rates and at
he same time the lowest number of false alerts. The detection rate was 99%, the
false alerts only 0.3%. "In our benchmark test Prospero AG reached significantly the
best results. In addition the quality of services and expertise form Prospero were
more than impressive", says a company speaker.
These results have even been improved in the productive
operation of the solution. There have been checked more than 6 mio. names in the
batch run, each against some 480'000 risk persons from the worldcheck file and an
internal black list. The analysis efforts and costs for the compliance are minimized
and the security is maximized. Beside the quality of the results the live runs have
shown the high performance of the Prospero solution with large data volumes. The
number of executed checks in the full run was some 29.000.000.000.000! "The
benchmark results are a convincing demonstration of the advantages from artificial
intelligence based systems" says Dr. Peter Abel, CEO from the consulting company
ATech-Consulting.
Prospero supports you for example in the implementation of the 3rd Anti-Money
Laundering Act, which has to be realized until end of 2007 in the EU-countries

How it works:
· You specify a name or customer database to check be checked against the specified
set of sanction lists;
· the checking is performed and the identified matches are reported;
· you document the results of the investigations; they are stored audit safe.
A clear and easy to understand similarity score is assigned to each detected
matching. It shows the similarity degree between the checked name and the detected
name(s) in the sanction lists. High performance string matching algorithms ensure
the high quality search results. Relevant matches are also compared with the name
de-rivatives, aliases, incorrectly spelled or other-wise distorted names, without
flooding the user with irrelevant hits.

Organizational solution
Apart from the analytical performance (quality of the checks) the organizational
part of the application is crucial for the practical use and benefit. p.SECCO
Namechecking includes a complete administrative solution for importing,
administration and updating of the lists. All the analysis activities and paths are
traced. The lists are synchronized on the base of the versions data. p.SECCO records
each process for the purposes of control, administration and audit trails.

List services
The p.SECCO Namechecking software is completed with the list services. According to
the regulations of the supervising authorities and other official institutions in
the different countries the relevant sanction lists are issued and up-dated and
periodically sent to the customer. The list updates within the application are run
via the simple import function. Beside the official sanction lists, a PEP
categorized database of the politically exposed persons (PEP) from more than 200
countries is supplied. All the lists are fully audit controlled.

Your main benefits
· high match and hit quality
· simple, easy-to-use application
· reliable solution with complete audit trails
· adjustable in terms of functionality and content
· complete solution


About the Swiss insurance company:
The insurance company is a global active insurance-based financial services
provider. The company was founded more than 120 years ago and has its headquarters
in Switzerland. The core of the business is General Insurance and Life Insurance.
The global network of subsidiaries and offices are located in North America, Europe,
Asia Pacific, Latin America and other markets. More than 50,000 employees serve
customers in more than 120 countries.

About Prospero;
Prospero was founded in 1999. The core business are solutions for the data
exploration. The base module is the RadarX® , a unique solution that finds the
relevant knowledge in complex information (data, text, images) in an automated
process. Customers from different business segments benefit from Prospero's business
solutions, i.e the financial services industry (solutions for anti money laundering,
fraud detection, customer baesd modeling, credit rating etc.) or the life science
(solutions for diagnostic classification, drug research, lab automation).
Some clients: AO Foundation, Creditreform, CZSG, Helvetia Patria, Liechtensteinische
Landesbank, VBS, Winterthur and Zurich Financial Services.



Web Site = http://www.ATech-Consulting.com

Contact Details = Christine Freilinger
ATech-Consulting Avanoc Österreich
Schottenring 16
A-1010 Vienna
Austria
e-Mail: Namechecking@ATech-Consulting.de

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