Disrupting financial crime with intelligence-led precision
At Section 2 Group, we empower organizations to identify and combat illicit financial activities. Our cutting-edge analytics solutions enhance compliance, ensuring a safer economic environment in an evolving global landscape.
What is Hybrid Threat Finance™?
Hybrid Threat Finance™ (HTF) is the study and analysis of how threat actors—whether criminal groups, trafficking networks, cyber adversaries, or even hostile nation-states—exploit financial infrastructure to achieve their objectives. These actors operate across domains: physical and digital, formal and informal, local and transnational. They move money through layers of transactions and categories that, at first glance, appear routine. But when viewed through the right lens, those patterns tell a different story.
At Section 2, we’ve built detection mechanisms to decode those patterns that can be used in financial institutions and authorities engaged in detecting, investigating, and stopping financial crime.
Section 2 Group is a mission-driven intelligence and analytics firm redefining how the world detects, disrupts, and defeats illicit financial activity.
Positioned at the nexus of threat finance, regulatory risk, and data innovation, Section 2 partners with government agencies, financial institutions, and technology providers to modernize the tools and frameworks used to identify and neutralize evolving threats in a rapidly shifting global landscape.
Section 2 exists to close the intelligence gap in financial crime detection. With rising geopolitical tension, transnational criminal networks, and the accelerating misuse of technology and finance, traditional compliance systems can no longer keep pace. Section 2 introduces a next-generation approach – Hybrid Threat FinanceTM — to surface, structure, and quantify risk in a dynamic, global context.
Our Impact
Section 2 is at the forefront of reshaping financial crime detection. By fusing intelligence tradecraft with cutting-edge data architecture and policy alignment, we help clients:
Reduce false positives while increasing true threat identification
Strengthen defensibility in audits and regulatory reviews
Detect cross-institutional and geopolitical risk patterns
Build agile, scalable frameworks for tomorrow’s risk environment
Insights into Financial Crime Detection
Get our Insights report on Human trafficking’s illicit profits “Human Trafficking in the EU”. The report offers critical, data-driven insights for financial institutions. Discover intricate financial patterns and typologies, bolstering your risk management and detection capabilities to combat these heinous crimes and protect your institution and fight Hybrid-Threat Finance™.
Who We Serve
Banks & Credit Unions
Strengthening financial institutions’ ability to detect, assess, and report high-risk activity tied to evolving threat vectors and foreign correspondent risk.
Financial Service Providers
We empower digitally native financial businesses with state-of-the-art, audit-proof tools, that enhance financial crime detention capabilities in line with regulatory expectations.
AML Solution Providers
Add an AI-driven detection layer, leveraging a rich dataset of real-world financial crime instances curated and analyzed by our intelligence operations team, to your AML offering.
Our Differentiators
Hybrid Threat Finance™ Methodology
A proprietary framework blending financial intelligence, geopolitical risk, and criminal network mapping to pinpoint emerging and hidden risks.
Threat + Internal Risk Fusion
With the addition of our Threat Risk Assessment capability, clients gain access to a full-spectrum risk lens—combining internal transaction or customer behaviors with external hybrid threat factors for stronger detection and decision-making.
Real-World Typologies, Not Just Rules
Section 2 builds detection logic around how threat actors actually operate—not just how systems expect them to.
Intelligence-Led Design
Our leadership brings together decades of experience in military intelligence, financial regulation, and applied data science to ensure our products reflect frontline realities.
Actionable Outputs
From visual threat maps to policy-aligned detection logic, everything we deliver is designed for implementation—not just insight.)
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