Profile

Silent Eight leverages the precision of AI combined with human insight to automate detection and decision-making in Financial Crime Compliance. By empowering compliance professionals to identify genuine risks more efficiently, Silent Eight’s human-centered AI solutions strike a balance between effectiveness and efficiency.

The company is guided by principles reflecting its core values: explainability, auditability, transparency, full governance and control, and continuous learning. These principles reinforce its commitment to delivering effective and scalable compliance solutions.

Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Singapore, Silent Eight is a dedicated RegTech company supporting partners in meeting regulatory demands while delivering strong ROI. Its advanced AI solutions are trusted by global leaders, including HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Mashreq, FAB, Emirates NBD, ADIB, and AIA.

To date, Silent Eight’s technology has adjudicated over 100 million alerts with accuracy and consistency, demonstrating its capability to provide scalable and reliable compliance solutions.

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Key Products

Seamless, fast, and configurable solutions that improves screening accuracy and saves time, resources, and cost in your financial crime compliance program.

Name Screening Detector

Leveraging AI to collect and consolidate your risk data, automate the analysis and detection of risk and automate adjudication of alerts.

Name Screening Adjudicator – Leveraging AI to automate the adjudication of name screening alerts.

Transaction Screening Adjudicator

Leveraging AI to automate the adjudication of transaction screening alerts.

Transaction Monitoring Adjudicator

Leveraging AI to autonomously investigate and close Transaction Monitoring cases.

Key Executives

Martin Markiewicz, CEO & Co-founder of Silent Eight

Martin is the co-founder and CEO of Silent Eight, where he leads the development of cutting-edge AI solutions to fight financial crime. With a background in mathematics and hands-on AI research, Martin has spearheaded the creation of advanced technologies now deployed by global banks like Standard Chartered and HSBC to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.

Before founding Silent Eight, Martin built a company focused on building hydropower plants in Central Europe, generating renewable energy, and ultimately taking it public. He is passionate about solving real-world problems with technology, sustainability, and the potential of AI to make a difference.

Julia Markiewicz, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer

A creator of artificial intelligence-powered solutions that combat money laundering and terrorist financing. Based in Singapore, her style in management is the primary catalyst behind Silent Eight’s heavy investment in research and development, and simultaneous drive to grow the team and geographical footprint.

Julia is a proactive problem-solver who first gained employment at the age of eight years old. She has a history of bright entrepreneurial activities, including her own startup, Fabryka Kadr, a leading European provider of human resources services that introduced many modern concepts to the market.

Julia has a Master’s degree in Social Policy and is passionate about innovation and driven to activate every member of the team to achieve their full potential.

In 2022, she made Forbes’ list of ‘100 Most Influential Women’ and was named one of ‘Europe’s Top 25 Women Leaders in Financial Technology’ for the third year in a row. Julia speaks Chinese, English, Polish and Russian, and loves to travel and explore new cultures.

Michael Wilkowski, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

A creator of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions dedicated to anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism.

Based in Poland, Michael provides the technology vision and expertise and is a driving force behind the company’s advancements in fighting financial crime.

As a result, leading financial services providers such as HSBC, Standard Chartered, First Abu Dhabi Bank, Mashreq, Emirates NBD, AIA and ADIB use Silent Eight’s flagship solution, Iris. Michael’s background as a development manager, solution architect, and development lead in conjunction with his hands-on experience in various technologies and a strong passion for machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) has made him the influential figure he is today.

Michael has worked with his fellow co-founders, Martin Markiewicz and Julia Markiewicz for over 20 years. Initially establishing a hydropower plant company, which the trio took public and sold, they founded Silent Eight in 2013.

Michelle Frasher, Head of Compliance & Regulatory Affairs

In her role with Silent Eight, Dr. Frasher is responsible for global financial crime compliance, sanctions analysis and compliance, artificial intelligence products, privacy protections and related regulations across product lines and will serve as a best practices consultant to clients. She also offers guidance on market and geopolitical developments; advises on product initiatives, sales and go-to-market strategy, and delivers insights on the role of human-driven AI solutions in advancing FCC compliance.

She worked at Oxford Analytica and also for an EU AML/CFT Global Facility along with Moody’s Analytics and Lexis/Nexis Risk Solutions. She went to Texas A&M University with a Ph.D. in History (International Political Economy) and an MA from Ohio University in International Relations (IPE) and History.

Ben Rayner, Global Head of Sales

Ben has 20 years experience in Banking, leading Operations, Analytics and Financial Crime teams. Over a decade of Financial Crime Compliance in the Natwest Group, Co-operative Bank and HSBC in a variety of roles, culminating in being Group Head of Name Screening at HSBC. He was also part of the HSBC / Silent Eight partnership automating alert adjudication that won the AI Breakthrough Award for Best MLOps Solution.

Ben now heads the Global sales team at Silent Eight, where he and his team drive awareness of the Silent Eight value in fighting financial crime.

Ajay George, Chief Product Officer

As Chief Product Officer at Silent Eight, Ajay is responsible for product development, professional services, customer success, and the strategic integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into the company’s innovative solutions. His teams are responsible for building and delivering the cutting-edge software that powers Silent Eight’s products, ensuring successful customer implementations, and providing world-class support to maximise client value.

With nearly two decades of expertise in AML (Anti-Money Laundering) compliance, Ajay has helped banks worldwide optimise their AML controls, significantly improving operational efficiency and profitability. His deep knowledge of AI and ML has driven meaningful transformations in the financial industry.

Before joining Silent Eight, Ajay spent over a decade at Oracle, where he led implementations of their FCC (Financial Crime Compliance) solutions. He later served as Global Head of Transformation at Capgemini, guiding financial institutions through major AI and ML-driven transformations.

Ajay holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science.

Customer Insights

“Every day, Silent Eight’s AI-powered platform is helping our compliance analysts reach decisions faster while improving quality and consistency in our approach to identifying financial crime risk.” – Mark Turkington, Group Head of Financial Crime Detection

“Silent Eight has enabled FAB to resolve a sizable portion of its alerts with no manual intervention.” – Vibhav Bindal, Head of Compliance & Fraud Management, FAB

“Integrating Silent Eight’s capabilities will enable us to streamline our financial crime compliance screening processes. This reflects our steadfast commitment to safeguarding our customers and protecting our business integrity.” – Hritesh Mehta, Head of Group Compliance at AIA

“We are thrilled to join forces with Silent Eight to improve our operational efficiencies and foster innovation. As a regional banking leader, Emirates NBD is setting a new standard of excellence in providing a safe and secure banking experience for our customers. This collaboration is a testament to Emirates NBD’s commitment to embracing cutting-edge technologies and pushing boundaries to deliver agility and optimize productivity.” – Abdulla Qassem, Group Chief Operating Officer at Emirates NBD

Investors

• $55M in funding to date.


• HSBC Ventures, SC Ventures, Wavemaker, OTB, and TYH Ventures.

Competitors

• NICE Actimize


• Workfusion


• Quantifin


• AML RightSource


• LexisNexis


• Risk Solutions.

Corporate Responsibility

Silent Eight is dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. The company implements policies to promote inclusivity and provides an anonymous reporting mechanism for employees, contractors, and external parties to raise concerns with Legal and People Operations. Additionally, Silent Eight highlights regional and cultural holidays and customs, supported by a cultural committee comprising team members from across the organization.

Silent Eight also maintains an ESG committee that reviews environmental, social, and governance policies and procedures. This committee develops programs tailored to the organization’s needs, reinforcing its commitment to sustainability and responsible governance.