A major New York bank hired 13,000 compliance reviewers since 2012
Apoorv Agarwal · AI for Sensitive Information // Apoorv Agarwal, Text IQ (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) · May 13, 2019 · at 3:37
Apoorv Agarwal, CEO of Text IQ, illustrates the immense labor scale and expense major financial institutions incur using traditional compliance methods.
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“A major bank in New York alone, they've hired over 13,000 people since 2012 looking for sensitive needles in this haystack.”
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