Sikoia and Resistant AI announce partnership

The partnership will see the integration of Resistant AI's sophisticated forensics capabilities into the Sikoia marketplace.

LONDON—Sikoia, the unified data platform for financial services, has announced a global partnership agreement with Resistant AI, the real-time identity forensics provider. The partnership will see the integration of Resistant AI’s digital document examination capabilities into the Sikoia marketplace, reflecting the growing demand from B2B lenders, factoring companies, and payment providers for sophisticated capabilities that minimize targeted manipulation, adversarial machine learning attacks, and increasingly complex fraud attempts.

Stephen Simmons, co-founder and CDO of Sikoia, said, “We’re delighted to partner with Resistant AI to provide our customers with sophisticated real-time forensics and anti-fraud capabilities. Our customers can now access a suite of best-in-class anti-fraud capabilities, as well as multiple data providers, through our integrated marketplace. For our customers that operate internationally, where many processes remain document-driven, Resistant AI’s sophisticated document forensics capabilities provide a critical capability to improve their onboarding, monitoring, and counterparty risk assessments.”

Roger Walton, CRO at Resistant AI, said, “As the financial services industry expands the use of automation, this partnership will help more fintechs integrate Resistant AI's market-leading real-time forensic capabilities into their onboarding and monitoring workflows. We're thrilled to be working with the team at Sikoia to build a more efficient, trustworthy financial ecosystem for both businesses and customers.”

About Sikoia

Sikoia is a category-defining Unified Data Platform (UDP) and orchestration layer that enriches and aggregates customer data from disparate sources and systems to automate compliance and risk processes, such as customer onboarding and verification, or portfolio monitoring. Client engagement and risk operations teams use the Sikoia Portal to access a fully-enriched, 360° view of the customer and to power operational efficiencies, delivering faster decisioning and powering best-in-class customer experiences. For more information, visit www.sikoia.com.

About Resistant AI

Founded in 2019, Resistant AI uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide identity forensic solutions that protect automated financial services from fraud and manipulation, including existing customer onboarding, AML, and fraud-detection systems. The Resistant AI founding team has a deep background in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computer security with more than 15 years of experience applying AI in the computer security domain. Backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Index Ventures, Credo Ventures, Seedcamp, and several angel investors specializing in financial technology and security, Resistant AI is headquartered in Prague with offices in London and New York.