An AI helper for third-party risk management

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Michael Berman (left), founder and chief executive of Ncontracts, and Ginger Devine (right), senior vice president and senior risk officer at Citizens First Bank. “This is going to really put financial institutions in the driver’s seat for understanding those control factors earlier in the process,” Berman said.

For banking executives negotiating contracts with new and existing fintech vendors, careful review of the terms of the deals is essential. But as the list of partners grows, the task of analyzing every contract for compliance with current guidelines and continuous monitoring can become unwieldy.

Meeting the ever-changing standards of regulators is a necessary cost of doing business for both fintechs and financial institutions. Banks and credit unions accordingly scrutinize every third party with which they work to avoid any possibility of misstepping where risk management is concerned.

Ncontracts, a risk management software firm located in Brentwood, Tennessee, has spent the past year training its new Ntelligent Contracts Assistant to assist in automating the review process by feeding it vendor contracts with financial institutions and having it learn key terms such as “notice…

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