In our latest podcast, Peter Jankovsky (WG'20) sits down with Charlie Delingpole, the CEO and Founder of ComplyAdvantage. ComplyAdvantage is a FinTech start-up disrupting the compliance space using AI and machine learning to detect money laundering. In 5 years, Charlie has grown the company from 5 people in a garage to 250 employees with 500 customers in over 50 countries. Charlie is a successful serial entrepreneur, with this being his third venture.
In this interview, Charlie shares:
- The genesis of ComplyAdvantage and the opportunity that Charlie saw for a streamlined compliance experience
- How ComplyAdvantage uses AI and ML to monitor bad actors and financial crime more effectively than traditional solutions
- How bad actors are engaged in an "arms race" to change behavior in response to new innovations to stop them
- The future vision for ComplyAdvantage
- Lessons learned from Charlie's experience successfully scaling 2 previous ventures
Prior to founding ComplyAdvantage, Charlie successfully founded two companies, MarketFinance and The Student Room. He also spent several years in investment banking at JP Morgan. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and London School of Economics and Political Science.
