ILLICIT FINANCE TARGETING

We find the people moving illicit money.

Transaction monitoring asks what looks unusual. Section 2 identifies who — the threat actors behind illicit finance. Attribution, not alerts. Deterministic, sourced, and examiner‑defensible.
Market Presence
Strategic Partner
authID
Identity verification + financial crime intelligence
Nasdaq: AUID
Intellectual Property
Hybrid Threat Finance™
Proprietary financial crime detection methodology
Patent Pending
Charter Institutions
Founding Cohort
Capped cohort of 3–5 financial institutions
Now Accepting Applications
Active Engagement
Top-25 U.S. Bank
$91B in assets — active threat intelligence engagement
Production
The Problem We’re Solving

The financial services industry is
operating in the dark

For twenty years, the global approach to detecting money laundering has been profoundly
ineffective. Not because of a lack of technology — because of a failure of logic. You cannot find
an enemy you haven’t defined.

$200B+ in compliance costs

Annual global spend on AML compliance by financial institutions, with less than 1% of illicit funds recovered. Massive investment. Minimal results.

85–95% false positive rates

Rule-based anomaly detection buries investigators in alerts that don’t represent real threats. Analysts spend their time on noise, not financial crime.

1% detection rate

Sophisticated hybrid threats exploit the information gaps between institutions. Criminals operate freely in the dark while compliance teams chase false alarms.

“This isn’t a failure of technology. It’s a failure of logic."

For decades, the industry has mistaken “different” for “criminal” — relying on anomaly detection instead of defining what criminal activity actually looks like. Section 2 starts from baseline principles: define the threat first, then detect it.

Hybrid Threat Central™ (HTC™)

The Financial Crime Threat Intelligence Platform

HTC is Section 2’s proprietary central repository of criminal risk intelligence. A continuously updated resource with global threat entities, jurisdictional risk factors, behavioral pattern libraries, and network relationship maps that shine a light on illicit money. Built on the Hybrid Threat Finance™ methodology, it’s the central intelligence infrastructure on which all Section 2 capabilities run.

Daily
AML Threat Intelligence updates
5
STAGES OF FINANCIAL CRIME
No
Rip and Replace
API
Integrates via API AND SFTP
The Platform

Capabilities powered by HTC™

Every Section 2 capability benefits from the same live intelligence repository so your detection, controls, and investigation tools are always in sync.

Capability 1: Detection Intelligence
TENet™

Threat Entity Network

A continuously updated library of financial crime targeting packages built on the HTF™ methodology, covering all five stages of financial crime. Delivered via API/SFTP with daily detection reports for transactional, account, and customer risk.

94%→18% False positive reduction in a TENet™ deployment alongside an existing TMS
Capability 2: Risk Intelligence
TRACC™

Threat Risk Assessment Command Center

Overlays dynamic HTC threat intelligence with your institution's own risk profile providing a controls map interface that identifies your financial crime risk exposure and informs which TENet™ Targeting Packages should be prioritized in your transaction monitoring program.

AI-driven policy recommendations tied to your actual exposure
Regulator-ready insights, not just dashboards
Proactive, not post-mortem

Seamless integration. No rip and replace required.

TENet Intelligence layers into your existing AML transaction monitoring systems — Actimize, NICE Actimize, Oracle Mantas, and others. You get immediate performance gains without operational disruption.

WHO IT'S FOR

Built for Institutions that can’t afford gaps

Banks & Credit Unions

Enhance AML, KYC, and fraud detection with dynamic threat intelligence. Reduce the false positive volume that buries your investigators and erodes team morale.

Fintech & Crypto Companies

Move fast without sacrificing compliance. HTC delivers the real-time risk intelligence your existing tools were designed to act on — without slowing you down.

Regulated Industries

Gaming, remittance, investment firms, and other high-risk industries benefit from HTC’s jurisdictional intelligence and explainable outputs for regulators and auditors.

What Every Institution Gets

Target risks with precision

TENet™ transforms ambiguous alerts into well-defined case candidates — so investigators work on real risks, not noise.

Revolutionize operational efficiency

Eliminate the false positives that hide true risk. Investigators work smarter and deliver faster case resolution.

Strengthen regulatory defensibility

Every decision is grounded in documented, intelligence-driven rationale — giving you the power of AI with the explainability regulators demand.

See Hybrid Threat Central in action.

Speak with an HTFTM expert and see how Section 2 brings clarity to financial crime intelligence, without replacing what you already have.

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