Watson for Banking
Risk & Compliance
© 2015 International Business Machines Corporation
Growing risk & compliance regulations have put increasing
stress on the Financial Services Sector
• Fragmented & conflicting
regulatory environments
The world’s most prominent
banks operate globally and within
several lines of business,
requiring the institutions to
comply with multiple regulatory
bodies
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• Fragmented solutions
provider landscape has
caused inefficient industry
response
Current solutions in the
marketplace focus on a niche
market, i.e. customer on-boarding
and not continued counterparty
risk assessments
• Fragmented and
inefficient industry
response
Financial institutions have yet
to develop an effective and
efficient approach to
compliance activities.
Today, industry spend on
compliance averages at 10%
of operating expenses.
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The Cognitive Financial Solution
“Cognitive Business” is IBM’s strategy and point of view on how the world will change with systems that can
now understand, reason, and learn. Applying this strategy to the Risk and Compliance space creates value
across the enterprise.
Automate Activities
Employ Watson to reduce the
manual effort required for risk
and compliance by leveraging
unstructured data extraction and
analysis and shift focus of
employees back to high-value
add activities.
Evidence Decisions
Utilize Watson to provide full
evidence trail for data leveraged
and logic employed to make
decisions and track decision
making to identify and scale best
practices.
Simplify the Environment
Use Watson to manage by
exception – identify and map
core regulatory requirements.
Leverage supplementary
management-level dashboards
that summarize issues and
prioritize remediation.
Understand Reason LearnWatson will to further…
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Create a holistic regulatory
environment and provide an
enterprise-wide view into
compliance. Watson is being
used to parse regulations into
obligations, map obligations
to the internal regulatory
framework, and test the
controls of the environment.
Reduce the manual effort
involved in its customer on-
boarding and monitoring
processes. Watson is being used
to crawl external and
proprietary sources, pre-
populate KYC records, and
provide alerts for adverse
media related to clients.
REGULATORY CHANGE
MANAGEMENT
KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER
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OPERATIONAL RISK
Understand and analyze the
operational risks that are present
within the bank. Watson is being
used to provide audit and
findings analysis, visualize
risk across the enterprise, and
assist in activity compliance.
Watson for Financial Services Risk & Compliance

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    Watson for Banking Risk& Compliance © 2015 International Business Machines Corporation
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    Growing risk &compliance regulations have put increasing stress on the Financial Services Sector • Fragmented & conflicting regulatory environments The world’s most prominent banks operate globally and within several lines of business, requiring the institutions to comply with multiple regulatory bodies 2 • Fragmented solutions provider landscape has caused inefficient industry response Current solutions in the marketplace focus on a niche market, i.e. customer on-boarding and not continued counterparty risk assessments • Fragmented and inefficient industry response Financial institutions have yet to develop an effective and efficient approach to compliance activities. Today, industry spend on compliance averages at 10% of operating expenses. © 2015 International Business Machines Corporation
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    3 The Cognitive FinancialSolution “Cognitive Business” is IBM’s strategy and point of view on how the world will change with systems that can now understand, reason, and learn. Applying this strategy to the Risk and Compliance space creates value across the enterprise. Automate Activities Employ Watson to reduce the manual effort required for risk and compliance by leveraging unstructured data extraction and analysis and shift focus of employees back to high-value add activities. Evidence Decisions Utilize Watson to provide full evidence trail for data leveraged and logic employed to make decisions and track decision making to identify and scale best practices. Simplify the Environment Use Watson to manage by exception – identify and map core regulatory requirements. Leverage supplementary management-level dashboards that summarize issues and prioritize remediation. Understand Reason LearnWatson will to further… © 2015 International Business Machines Corporation
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    4 Create a holisticregulatory environment and provide an enterprise-wide view into compliance. Watson is being used to parse regulations into obligations, map obligations to the internal regulatory framework, and test the controls of the environment. Reduce the manual effort involved in its customer on- boarding and monitoring processes. Watson is being used to crawl external and proprietary sources, pre- populate KYC records, and provide alerts for adverse media related to clients. REGULATORY CHANGE MANAGEMENT KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER © 2015 International Business Machines Corporation OPERATIONAL RISK Understand and analyze the operational risks that are present within the bank. Watson is being used to provide audit and findings analysis, visualize risk across the enterprise, and assist in activity compliance. Watson for Financial Services Risk & Compliance