Fivecast named a Winner in the Datos Impact Awards
Datos Insights, the leading research and advisory partner to the banking, insurance, and securities industries, has recognized Fivecast as a winner of the 2025 Impact Award for Best Financial Crime Investigation and Reporting Innovation.
This award is recognition of the innovative technology Fivecast has launched to help financial institutions (FIs) address the growing and complex challenge of financial crime in the digital age. Â This technology was born out of a unique collaboration between Government agencies and world-leading research institutions to tackle significant big data challenges like those facing FIs today.
Fivecast empowers financial investigation teams to swiftly and efficiently assess customer risk across masses of online data, including deep social media insights. As a global provider of market-leading open-source intelligence (OSINT) software, Fivecast’s AI and machine learning capabilities have demonstrated a nearly four-fold increase in efficiency compared with conventional manual approaches to KYC/EDD and AML investigations, delivering faster results, boosting productivity, and reducing compliance costs for FIs worldwide.
“This award highlights Fivecast’s commitment to solving complex intelligence challenges across sectors,” said Dr. Brenton Cooper, CEO and Co-founder of Fivecast. “We’re proud to have extended our proven OSINT technology from government applications to the financial sector – empowering institutions to detect fraud, combat money laundering, and accelerate KYC and due diligence with greater efficiency.”
Chuck Subrt, Practice Director, Fraud & AML at Datos Insights, commented: “Fivecast is a deserving winner of the 2025 AML Impact Award for Best Financial Crime Investigation and Reporting Innovation. The Fivecast ONYX solution addresses fundamental challenges in financial crime detection while delivering measurable improvements in efficiency, accuracy, and regulatory compliance.”Â
The results reported by Fivecast are particularly compelling, with clients achieving up to a reported 80% time savings and productivity multipliers. More importantly, efficiency gains are achieved without sacrificing accuracy or compliance requirements, addressing one of the key challenges facing modern FIs: the need to do more with less while maintaining rigorous standards. As criminal networks become more sophisticated in their use of digital channels, solutions like Fivecast ONYX will become increasingly essential for maintaining effective financial crime prevention programs.
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About Datos Insights
Datos Insights is the leading research and advisory partner to the banking, insurance, and securities industries—both the financial services firms and the technology providers who serve them.
In an era of rapid change, we empower firms across the financial services ecosystem to make high-stakes decisions with confidence and speed. Our distinctive combination of proprietary data, analytics, and deep practitioner expertise provides actionable insights that enable clients to accelerate critical initiatives, inspire decisive action, and de-risk strategic investments to achieve faster, bolder transformation. Visit datos-insights.com to learn more.
About Fivecast
The mission of Fivecast is to enable a safer world. As a world-leading provider of open-source intelligence solutions, Fivecast helps the world’s most important public and private organizations explore masses of data, uncovering actionable insights that are critical to protecting global communities.
Purpose-built to address the highest priority use cases in the national security, law enforcement, defense, corporate security, and financial intelligence markets, Fivecast deploys advanced data collection and AI-enabled analytics to solve the most complex intelligence challenges.
