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Thursday, November 07 2019 - 13:44
AsiaNet
Cloudera Empowers Banks in Asia Pacific to Combat Financial Crimes
SINGAPORE, Nov. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

--Mitigating risks by capitalizing on the latest machine learning and advanced 
analytical methods to detect and prevent financial crimes

Cloudera, Inc. ( https://www.cloudera.com/ ), (NYSE: CLDR), the enterprise data 
cloud company, today announced that more than half of the 30 largest banks in 
Asia Pacific (excluding state-owned banks in China) have chosen Cloudera to 
enhance their data strategy to accelerate digital transformation, improve 
customer experiences, and meet regulatory and compliance requirements.  
Cloudera also counts eight of the top 10 largest banks in Southeast Asia[1] as 
customers.

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With 75% of companies[2] in the Asia Pacific region falling victim to financial 
crime over the past 12 months, the pressure is on for financial institutions to 
rely on data, analytics, machine learning and AI technologies to capitalize on 
the information needed to combat financial crime. Given the complexity and 
variety of financial and sensitive customer data, many financial institutions 
have also transitioned to Cloudera's cloud-agnostic platform that is optimized 
for the scale and complexity of the data that the industry demands. 

"Financial crime is one of the greatest challenges for banks as it not only 
causes monetary losses but also adversely affects reputation and customer 
relationships," said Mark Micallef, Vice President of Asia Pacific and Japan, 
Cloudera. "Criminal networks are becoming increasingly creative and ready to 
exploit any opportunity inside or around the edges of business operations. As 
the need to overcome the siloed and overwhelming data landscape increases, 
financial services institutions have to adopt innovative approaches to better 
leverage data and analytics and protect themselves from known and unknown 
threats, while keeping up with regulatory changes. We are proud to be chosen by 
top banks in the region to help them make insights-driven decisions to secure 
their organizations as they grow."

Bank Rakyat Indonesia

PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2635503-1&h=3812780818&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cloudera.com%2Fabout%2Fnews-and-blogs%2Fpress-releases%2F2018-11-21-cloudera-partners-with-bank-rakyat-indonesia-on-data-driven-journey-to-boost-growth.html&a=Bank+Rakyat+Indonesia 
) (Persero) Tbk (BRI) is one of the largest state-owned banks in Indonesia 
which engages in the provision of general banking services. It built a big data 
platform that is powered by Cloudera Enterprise to analyze the massive amount 
of customer data it gained over the years. This enabled it to analyze five 
years' worth of historical data and use the derived insights to drive more 
sales through targeted cross-selling and upselling.   

BRI also used Cloudera Data Science Workbench to develop a machine learning 
model for fraud detection. The new system will process and detect fraud in real 
time by highlighting anomalies found in the stream of events coming from 
multiple customer touchpoints such as ATMs and internet banking portals. 

"As customers are changing the way they bank and given the sophisticated nature 
of fraud, banks need to leverage data and take a new approach to grow and 
protect their business," said Indra Utoyo, Director of IT and Operations, BRI. 
"Cloudera's scalable, secure, and compliant platform allows us to gain a 
comprehensive view of customers, enabling us to continually address their 
ever-changing demands as well as offer services to the underserved in 
Indonesia. The new platform also enables the use of machine learning to enhance 
our fraud detection capability, which will help address the mounting concerns 
around data security." 

United Overseas Bank

United Overseas Bank ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2635503-1&h=979999935&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cloudera.com%2Fabout%2Fcustomers%2Funited-overseas-bank.html&a=United+Overseas+Bank 
) (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 
branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe 
and North America. Working with Cloudera, UOB built an enterprise-wide big data 
platform from which its analytics teams can access relevant and quality data to 
improve business processes and develop new solutions based on artificial 
intelligence and machine learning. For example, to help in the fight against 
financial crime, one of the machine learning solutions enabled UOB's analysts 
to reduce false positives of suspected money laundering transactions by 40%.

"At UOB, the use of machine learning and data analytics are now core components 
of our approach to detecting and preventing money laundering," said Richard 
Lowe, Chief Data Officer, UOB. "Our collaboration with Cloudera has enabled us 
to develop solutions that are sharper in identifying patterns and linkages that 
might signal suspicious transactions and in predicting suspicious activities 
more accurately."

YES BANK

YES BANK ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2635503-1&h=2133448168&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cloudera.com%2Fabout%2Fnews-and-blogs%2Fpress-releases%2F2017-07-05-cloudera-empowers-yes-banks-digital-strategy-to-deliver-enhanced-business-insight.html&a=YES+BANK 
) is India's fourth largest private sector bank with a pan-India presence 
across all 29 states and seven Union Territories of India. By deploying 
Cloudera Enterprise, the bank is able to develop customized campaigns for 
consumers throughout their customer journeys. The solution also allows the bank 
to use machine learning and predictive modeling to transform existing processes 
to detect fraud faster. 

"Cloudera empowers us to become an insights-driven organization," said Anup 
Purohit, Chief Information Officer at YES BANK. "With Cloudera Enterprise, we 
can mine large volumes of data from financial transactions and create machine 
learning algorithms. The combination of those capabilities ultimately allows us 
to grow the business by offering differentiated digital experiences to our 
customers, while keeping risks to a minimum." 

Additional Resources

For more information about Cloudera's Financial Services Solutions, please 
visit https://www.cloudera.com/solutions/financial-services.html

View our OnDemand Webinar: Towards the Next Gen Financial Crimes Platform  ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2635503-1&h=2746690016&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cloudera.com%2Fabout%2Fevents%2Fwebinars%2Ffinancial-crime.html%3Futm_source%3Dwebsite%26utm_medium%3Dfield%26utm_term%3Dedc%26utm_campaign%3DFinancial_Crime_Organic_AMER_Webinar_2019-10-23%26cid%3D7012H000001ORdm&a=Towards+the+Next+Gen+Financial+Crimes+Platform+ 
) 

Download our eBook on Fighting Financial Crime - Top 5 Data and Analytics 
Approaches ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2635503-1&h=2605149239&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cloudera.com%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Fwww%2Fmarketing%2Fresources%2Febooks%2Ffinancial-crimes-ebook-091819.pdf.landing.html&a=Fighting+Financial+Crime+-+Top+5+Data+and+Analytics+Approaches 
)

Read our 3-blog series on Financial Crime:

    -- 1. Beyond Money Laundering ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2635503-1&h=3990150409&u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2Fcloudera-inc%2Fbeyond-money-laundering-4b79671976d0&a=Beyond+Money+Laundering 
) 
    -- 2. New Approaches to Combating Economic Crime ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2635503-1&h=4052232618&u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2Fcloudera-inc%2Fnew-approaches-to-combating-economic-crime-35c805fcc9fa&a=New+Approaches+to+Combating+Economic+Crime 
) 
    -- 3. Moving Towards the Next Gen Financial Crimes Platform ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2635503-1&h=1764904437&u=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.cloudera.com%2Fmoving-towards-the-next-gen-financial-crimes-platform%2F%3Fite%3D35687%26ito%3D2118%26itq%3D52a71ff8-d861-44bf-b9a6-0514311d573b%26itx%255Bidio%255D%3D994221&a=Moving+Towards+the+Next+Gen+Financial+Crimes+Platform 
) 

Find out more about Cloudera's enterprise customers here 
https://www.cloudera.com/about/customers.html

About Cloudera 
At Cloudera, we believe that data can make what is impossible today, possible 
tomorrow. We empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable 
insights. Cloudera delivers an enterprise data cloud for any data, anywhere, 
from the Edge to AI. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source 
community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world's largest 
enterprises. Learn more at https://Cloudera.com.

Cloudera and associated marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of 
Cloudera, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their 
respective owners.

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[1] Source: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_banks_in_Southeast_Asia 
[2] Source: 
https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/financial-crimes-hit-82-of-spore-firms-in-past-year-report


SOURCE: Cloudera, Inc. 

CONTACT:  Hui Ting Ong, press@cloudera.com, +(65) 68175279