Vishal is a globally recognised leader in solving clients’ financial crime and surveillance challenges. He is the CEO and co-founder of Quantexa, an analytics startup which has swiftly grown to over 500 employees globally and is one of the UK’s fastest growing tech companies. In 2018 he won Developing Entrepreneur at The Enterprise Awards 2018.
Quantexa leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to help businesses uncover hidden risk, discover new customer opportunities and help financial services businesses meet their compliance requirements. Vishal founded the company because he understood the growing demand for companies to adopt AI to combat fraud, according to a study by risk decisioning software developer Provenir.
As companies amass more data, understanding what can be done with all that information and how it can be correctly analysed is still a challenge for some. The result can be poor data quality or inaccurate data foundations, which are untrustworthy for strategic and operational decision making. As Vishal has said:
“To really crack down on fraud and financial crime requires an understanding of the wider context around entities. This is why I wanted to create a platform that provided context around the vast swathes of data that organisations were generating, and to give it meaning so that bad actors were easier to identify.”