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We're wishing our clients and partners a roaring Lunar New Year and 2022 ! Your trust, collaboration and support are what drives us to continue to deliver solutions in difficult times. 

Chinese New Year of the Rabbit

We're honoured to be included in the RegTech100 listing, an annual list of the 100 world’s most innovative RegTech companies. The list is meant to help senior management and compliance professionals evaluate solutions to consider as they develop their RegTech and digital transformation strategies.

IMTF recognized one of the world’s pioneer in regulatory technology market

IMTF is excited to announce that it has just completed the acquisition of the entire Siron®  Compliance & AML business from US FICO Corp. With it, all Siron compliance products, all employees and client contracts worldwide are joining IMTF, making it one of the top three compliance technology vendors with over 1600 clients, 300 employees and a presence in 10 countries. Fair Isaac Germany GmbH – formerly Tonbeller GmbH – also becomes the new IMTF entity in Germany. 

IMTF completes acquisition of the Siron compliance business

IMTF a le plaisir de vous convier au Séminaire "CASA 2022 / Conformité Réglementaire: Comment sécuriser et optimiser la mise en oeuvre opérationnelle de différents dispositifs de Compliance?"  Cet événement dédié aux spécialistes de la conformité bancaire, co-organisé avec l'AFGES et Montaigne Executive Advisory, couvrira les thèmes suivants:

Séminaire Conformité CASA 2022

FICO has reached an agreement to transition its Siron® compliance business to IMTF. IMTF, a global leader in regulatory technology and process automation for financial institutions, and a strategic partner in the Siron business for more than 20 years, will assume responsibility for the entire Siron Anti Financial Crime business worldwide. This enables IMTF to further develop and extend the Siron Suite and to support the application and the related SaaS offering globally. The transaction includes FICO transitioning all Siron-related customer relationships and commitments to IMTF. IMTF is also buying Fair Isaac Germany GmbH.

Siron AFCS becomes part of IMTF

We are pleased to be a gold sponsor at the 4th MENA RegTech Forum taking place this November 16, 2022 at Dusit Thani Dubai.  One day concentrating  on "improving regulatory processes through technology", bringing together experts, regulators and prominent banks to share the latest updates on regulatory technology and compliance.  Our chairman, Mark Büsser, will be speaking at 10:25am GST

4th MENA RegTech Dubai

The IMTF team is proud to participate and represent Swiss technology and innovation together with other outstanding tech companies at Singapore FinTech Festival on November 2-4.

Singapore Fintech Festival 2022

Gemeinsam Digitalisierungs-Experten sowieIhren Peers aus der Banken- und Versicherungswelt wagen wir deshalb am 8. November ab 16:00 Uhr bei Google nicht nur einen Blick in die Zukunft, sondern klären vor allem auf, wie Vorreiter bereits heute KI zur Verbesserung von Kundenservices einsetzen.

Künstliche Intelligenz als Gamechanger der UX

IMTF's image editing capabilities provide bank users with a vast variety of post-editing capabilities seamlessly integrated into the day-to-day document management process, including:  cropping, rotating/flipping, annotating, changing luminosity and contrast, watermarking, censoring, and many more!

IMTF image editing

With this integration, IMTF and Parashift are working together to simplify data management across organizations and drive operational improvements. This enables our customers to automate internal processes significantly and ultimately serve clients better.

Partnership with Parashift

IMTF’s latest update to its proprietary name screening solution scores precision and recall levels of up to 99.99%. This means: less than one false positive and one false negative per 10’000 records. All this while achieving average speeds of 200-300 ms per record.

IMTF Chinese name screening

We are delighted to be a sponsor at the upcoming Fraud & Financial Crime Europe 2022! JOIN US and hear from industry experts on regulatory changes and best practices to detect and prevent fraud and financial crime. Key topics to be covered include: AML regulation, sanctions, scams, cryptocurrency and more. Our CEO, Gion-Andri Büsser, will be delivering a luncheon address on Day 1 on the topic: "How cloud-based AML can strengthen compliance and security?" If you would like to set up a meeting with us during the event, please send us an email at info@imtf.com or visit our stand to speak to the team. We look forward to meeting you in London!

Fraud & Financial Crime Europe 2022

We’re thrilled to announce that we have been recognized as one of the world’s most innovative companies using artificial intelligence to transform financial services in 2022.

IMTF recognized one of the world’s most innovative companies using AI to transform financial services

On behalf of the IMTF group, our entire team is honored to extend to you and your family our best wishes for Eid al-Adha!

Wishing colleagues, customers and partners, a happy Eid Al Adha

Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter au prochain Swiss ECM User Group Meeting, qui se tiendra le 8 Avril prochain à 10h dans les bureaux d'IMTF à Givisiez/Fribourg.

Réunion utilisateurs ECM Suisse Romande

IMTF's Zurich team recently moved to a brand new office on the 16th floor of the On Lab Tower in the heart of Zurich. This new space reflects IMTF's new work approach, promoting collaborative ways of working in an inspiring and stimulating environment that fosters creativity and productivity

IMTF Zurich moves to a new office

Our community keeps growing! Whether you've been following us from the beginning or just started following us recently THANK YOU for getting behind our mission to fight financial crime and make the world a safer place!

Celebrating 4'000 followers on Linkedin

Fribourg, 24 May 2021 – IMTF and Tech Access have entered into a strategic partnership to broaden the offering in the compliance & risk sector in the Middle East and prevent financial crime.

IMTF announces strategic partnership with Tech Access

IMTF is pleased to invite you to its webinar "Leverage the latest technology and save time in handling your AML alerts with IMTF's Case Management solution"

Webinar Close your AML alerts faster

Did you know that IMTF was the first Swiss FinTech? Discover IMTF's profile published in the Swiss business magazine "Le Monde Economique". Founded in 1987...

IMTF - Success story of the 1st FinTech in Switzerland

As this season of Ramadan comes to a close, we would like to extend our warmest wishes to our Muslim customers, partners, colleagues and their families for a blessed and joyous Eid al-Fitr.

Happy Eid al Fitr

We're pleased to be featured in The Paypers Financial Crime and Fraud Report 2022.

IMTF featured in Financial Crime and Fraud Report 2022

IMTF a le plaisir de vous inviter à son webinar: "Comment gagner du temps et profiter des dernières avancées technologiques pour traiter vos alertes AML avec le nouvel outil de gestion des cas  IMTF?"

Webinar exclusif réservé aux clients d'IMTF

The recent sanctions against Russia add to the growing list of directives, putting financial institutions under unprecedented regulatory - and financial - pressure. Yet innovative solutions exist to help banks modernize their existing infrastructure without having to replace their entire back-end technology: improving the second layer of their compliance ecosystem can do just that. 

why banks should improve the second layer of their compliance ecosystem?

IMTF wishes you joy, good health and many blessings. Have a peaceful and happy Ramadan!

IMTF wishes you a Blessed and Happy Ramadan!

Wir freuen uns, Sie zum nächsten Swiss ECM User Group Meeting einzuladen, welches am 1. April 2022 um 10.00 Uhr im Hotel St. Gotthard, Bahnhof Zürich, stattfinden wird. Dieses Event ist eine gute Möglichkeit zur Präsentation konkreter Fallbeispiele sowie zum Austausch bewährter Verfahren unserer Nutzer.

IMTF ECM User Group Meeting

Join us and financial crime fighters from around the world to find out how financial institutions are using technology to make compliance processes more efficient and effective in order to outsmart the increasingly crafty and inventive strategies employed by fraudsters.

AML & Fincrime Tech Forum

Happy Chinese New Year

From all of us at IMTF, we send along our best wishes for a happy holiday season and a blessed new year!

Season's greetings

We are honoured to be featured as Company of the Year and to be on the list of the Top 10 Regtech Solution Providers in Europe 2021 in the last Regtech Edition of Banking CIO Outlook.

IMTF Company of the Year and Top Regtech Solution Provider

The IMTF Compliance Forum took place Monday, December 6, 2021at the Sofitel Dubai Downtown, with a panel of Compliance specialists, who have shared their insights on Regulatory Compliance and best practices and approaches to address the challenges posed by the current UAE regulations.

Thank you Compliance Forum Dubai

Join us in Dubai on December 6 at the UAE Compliance Forum 2021! The objective of this event is to provide you with an overview of the latest regulatory and technological breakthroughs, to exchange knowledge and experiences related to regulatory compliance as well as best practices and approaches to address the challenges posed by current regulations.

Compliance Forum Dubai

Exciting discussions, industry insights and practical knowledge: the content of today's Compliance Forum in a nutshell. Some of the topics covered...

Merci Forum Conformité Paris

Compliance Forum Paris

Financial crime has increased in recent years and is constantly evolving. With total combined fraud losses reaching a record high of $56 billion in 2020, financial organisations around the world are facing a growing challenge from fraudsters who are becoming increasingly sophisticated and inventive in their approaches.

THE 4 MUST-HAVE COMPONENTS

IMTF, as one of the industry leaders, has been handed the honour of winning in Client Lifecycle Management, KYC Product, On-Boarding Product Pan Asia and also Highly Commended in Overall WealthTech Provider for Pan Asia at The WealthTechAsia Awards 2021.

IMTF receives 4 awards at the WealthTechAsia Awards 2021

Valeriy Voditchenski willl be speaking at the EBINTEC Banking Innovation Conference EMEA on Sept. 29th.  Don't miss his presentation "Turning the regulatory burden into an efficiency gain"

EBINTEC Banking Innovation Conference EMEA

Join us on 19th & 20th October 2021 at Fraud and Financial Crime Europe. Attendees can expect to hear from 20+ industry thought leaders, who will share their knowledge through presentations, panel discussions and live Q&As. Key topics to be covered at this highly anticipated summit include: KYC, sanctions, regulation, internal fraud, scams, and more. Attend using our 20% discount code: FFCEUIMTF. Click here to find out more about this event or download the event brochure below...

Fraud and Financial Crime Europe 2021

IMTF announces the appointment of Gion-Andri Büsser as new CEO with immediate effect. IMTF’s Founder Mark Büsser has decided to step down as CEO. He will remain with the company as Chairman of the Board, Key Account Manager and Advisor.  Gion-Andri Büsser, the son of Mark Büsser, will drive IMTF's growth strategy globally and further strengthen its RegTech and Process Automation products, delivering enhanced benefits to both Compliance and Operations functions of Financial Service Providers.

Change of leadership at IMTF

We're pleased to be featured in the first edition of the APAC Wealth Technology Landscape Report  with a thought leadership article from our CEO on Regulatory Compliance, and learn how IMTF's solutions can help banks deal with increasingly stringent regulations.

IMTF featured in APAC Wealth Technology landscape report

Discover the history of IMTF through this article produced following IMTF's nomination to the SVC Suisse romande 2020 award.

IMTF in Swiss newspaper Le Temps

Discover the history of IMTF with this short movie produced for IMTF's nomination to the SVC Suisse romande 2020 award.

IMTF Video Presentation

IMTF is pleased and grateful for the recognition of its entrepreneurship and innovation during the Swiss Venture Competition ceremony “Prix CVS Suisse Romande” held at the Swiss Tech Convention Center at EPFL.  We thank our employees, as well as our partners and customers for their continued trust.  IMTF continues its path to Excellence in Regulatory Compliance!

IMTF recognized at Swiss Venture Club awards ceremony

The newly launched version of IMTF’s I-match solution provides compliance officers with a powerful platform for batch and real-time screening & filtering of names with the highest precision against any structured and unstructured data source. The application features a best-in-class User Interface to maximize alert resolution efficiency, the ability to map complex processes and extensive documentation options. Furthermore, the new version considerably enhances its performance, allowing for high throughputs.  Regulators often require compliance officers to incorporate additional screening obligations, from screening against wider list criteria, broadening of matching rules to implementing a more comprehensive screening during onboarding.

IMTF launched a new version of its successful Screening & Identity Matching solution I-match

IMTF has been nominated as a finalist for the Prix SVC Suisse Romande.   With this award, the SVC (Swiss Venture Club) promotes entrepreneurship in all Swiss regions. The Prix SVC is awarded every two years to exemplary companies. In addition to a proven track record, the central prerequisites for nomination are establishment and sustainability, especially the idea of innovation and regional roots. 

IMTF nominated as finalist for Prix SVC Suisse Romande

IMTF, the Leading Swiss provider of RegTech solutions in the financial service industry since 1987, has reinforced its APAC focus and presence with the nomination of Jordan Lo to the company’s management team.

IMTF announces new APAC Head: Jordan Lo Chee Ee

Mark Büsser, Chief Executive Officer of RegTech company IMTF, has a wealth of experience in the world of wealth management and digitisation. He addressed delegates at the Hubbis Compliance in Asian Wealth Management Forum to explain the need for intermediaries and advisers to understand relevant risks and then tailor risk assessment, leveraging enhanced technology with quality data sources. He told them how AI and Contextual Analysis provide the platform on which IMTF's 'I-match' and 'Find-it' are based.