“Can a purpose-built AI decisioning platform become the de facto financial crime compliance infrastructure for Tier 1 global banks?”
Founded in 2013 in Singapore, Silent Eight built AI models to automate financial crime compliance decisions — specifically AML alert investigation and sanctions screening — for Tier 1 banks. The company differentiated by training on real-world bank data and embedding a human-in-the-loop design. By 2022 it had secured HSBC and Standard Chartered as both customers and investors, validating its enterprise-grade approach. The 2026 launch of Iris 7 represents a move toward a comprehensive, agentic AI decisioning platform covering sanctions, AML, fraud, and payment screening at scale.
Silent Eight was founded by Martin Markiewicz and is founded in 2013, headquartered in Singapore.
Silent Eight has raised $55M in total (latest round: Series B, March 2022; valuation: 4x previous value (October 2020)).
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