Pometry Wins BIS Innovation Hub 2025 Analytics Challenge

Pometry has won the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub’s 2025 Analytics Challenge for its approach to detecting financial crime using its Raphtory platform.

The company’s solution demonstrated exceptional performance capabilities:

• Processed billions of transactions on a single laptop
• Completed analysis of the entire massive dataset in 20 minutes (versus weeks or months for competing systems)
• One engineer developed the complete pipeline in just one week
• Achieved 250 times faster performance than alternative systems

Pometry’s solution detected:

• Layering: Dispersing large inbound transactions across multiple accounts
• Funneling: Consolidating small transactions into single large transfers
• Scatter & Gather: Distributing funds that reconverge at single destinations
• Dormant Account Activation: Flagging suddenly-active inactive accounts
• Chaining: Identifying circular transaction loops across extended timeframes

“The future of complex data analysis lies in temporal graphs. Static snapshots of data are no longer enough.”

Alhamza Alnaimi, CEO, Pometry

The platform is currently used by government agencies and FTSE 10 financial institutions for fraud detection, AML compliance, and AI application development.