Silent Eight Wins ABF FinTech Award for RegTech Initiative of the Year

We’re thrilled to announce that Silent Eight has won the 2025 Asian Banking & Finance (ABF) FinTech Award in the RegTech Initiative category  – a recognition that underscores our commitment to innovation, transparency, and real-world impact in the fight against financial crime.

This award acknowledges technology pioneers who are transforming the financial landscape across Asia with cutting-edge solutions. Silent Eight’s selection is a testament to our ground-breaking work in deploying Agentic AI to solve one of the industry’s most critical challenges: scaling compliance operations without sacrificing accuracy, speed, or regulatory rigour.

‘From the beginning, our mission has been to use advanced AI to help financial institutions scale their compliance operations,’ said Martin Markiewicz, CEO of Silent Eight. ‘We’re proud to be leading the way in responsible, auditable, and human-centered AI that delivers measurable impact for the world’s largest banks.’

Transforming Compliance with Agentic AI

At the core of Silent Eight’s platform is Iris, our flagship Agentic AI solution for anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions screening. Deployed in production since 2018, Iris enables financial institutions to achieve 100% precision in alert resolution while reducing manual investigation times by up to 70%  – a leap forward in compliance efficiency and effectiveness.

Unlike legacy systems based on static rules or opaque algorithms, our Agentic AI learns continuously from each institution’s investigations, adapting to their unique risk typologies and compliance policies. Every model update is subject to validation and approval by human compliance teams before deployment, ensuring regulatory alignment and operational trust at every step.

Trusted by the World’s Leading Banks

Silent Eight’s solutions are used by some of the world’s most prominent financial institutions, including HSBC, Standard Chartered, Mashreq, and Emirates NBD. Our clients consistently highlight the platform’s speed, accuracy, and explainability as transformative to their operations.

The ABF Award comes at a time when financial institutions are under growing pressure to modernise compliance functions and adopt AI that is both auditable and explainable. Silent Eight’s success reflects our commitment to providing exactly that — AI you can trust, and results you can verify.

‘This award isn’t just a trophy,’ said Victor Li, Head of Data Science at Silent Eight. ‘It’s a symbol of what we’ve built, the technology that enables financial institutions to make faster, accurate, and explainable decisions in the fight against financial crime. I’m proud to contribute to our shared purpose of using AI to make the financial system safer’. 

Innovation With a Purpose

This recognition reinforces Silent Eight’s position as a pioneer in RegTech, shaping the future of financial crime compliance with intelligent, adaptive, and transparent technology. As regulators demand greater oversight over AI systems, Silent Eight’s approach  – merging human expertise with machine precision  – is increasingly viewed as a benchmark for responsible AI deployment in financial services.

We thank the ABF Awards committee for this honour and our incredible team and partners who continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible. Together, we are redefining how the world approaches financial crime  – one decision at a time.

To learn more about our platform, visit Iris 6 page.