A company called Domus Semo Sancus (DSS) has built a cognitive system called SafetyNetKYC that uses AI to gather all the information that’s available online about a potential customer. This includes everything from terror watch lists and court records to newspaper articles and social media posts.By sorting through all that information, it’s able to create a risk profile on the customer − even if they have no financial history − and ensure that banks aren’t doing business with money launderers or terrorist financers.

IBM INSIGHT 2015, LAS VEGAS - 26 Oct 2015: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the addition of six new Watson Ecosystem partners who are developing apps and services powered by cognitive computing. The new partners, Engage, Macaw Speech, Opentopic, StatSocial, Vennli, and Domus Semo Sancus, are developing use cases in the areas of call center support, speech telephony, content marketing, social media analysis, survey analysis, and risk management.