Orphan black box

Eric A. Sohn, CAMS (eric.sohn@dowjones.com), global market strategist and product director, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, New York, USA.

Where ‘too complicated to explain’ mayonce have washed with regulators - in catch-up as much as firms trying to harness technology to screen against multiplying and lengthening watchlists - those halcyon days are long past. Eric Sohn of Dow Jones tackles the how and why imperatives of text matching.