DataFab
DataFab · Financial Crime Utility · Meridian Bank plc · illustrative

Your Monday.
On one living graph.

By five o'clock you will know

Who is really behind Aurelia — and why a case that was cleared on its merits still becomes an incident.

01Deploying and Validating Data Fabric Systems
02Segment 2
03Segment 3
DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 01 / 26
How to follow today

One day. Three stories.

Story 1

Aurelia

A corporate client the relationship manager needs onboarded by tomorrow. Nothing about it is what it seems.

09:15 · 10:52 · 15:00 · 15:30
Story 2

The network moves

Customers change overnight — a sanctions match, adverse media, a move to a high-risk country — and the graph notices first.

08:30 · 11:00 · 13:00
Story 3

The volume

The work that buries a unit — onboarding, 412 alerts a night, 2,412 remediation files — done by agencies, decided by people.

08:45 · 11:00 · 14:00

Every scene carries its story's colour. The map at the top of each slide shows where we are in the day.

DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 02 / 26
The people

The people. Each where your authority matrix puts one.

Before the day
K
KevinMeridian IT — brings the bank onto the platform, weeks 1–4
First line
R
Ruthruns the board — sees what the agencies push
P
Priyaworks the cases
T
Tomaszworks the complex cases
L
Lenaowns the overnight alerts
Decide where policy says a person must
M
Marcusthe MLRO — materiality, PEPs, sanctions
D
Davidcommercial acceptance
D
Danielquality classification
The business
S
Sophierelationship manager — wants Aurelia by tomorrow
K
Karimhead of financial-crime operations — reads the day at 17:00
DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 03 / 26
The customers

Seven names worth knowing.

Ade Balogunretail · opens an account at 08:45 · the bank has met him before
Aurelia Fintechcorporate · needed by tomorrow · owned through an offshore chain
Caspian Venturesholds 68% of Aurelia's parent · registered in Majuro
Helios Tradeanother customer · its parent hit a sanctions match at 02:40 · restricted
Nordvik Shippingadverse media on an owner, overnight
Baltic Componentsmoved its operations to a high-risk country
Kessler & Rothrefuses to provide information in the remediation

Two of them — Caspian and Helios — have never been in the same case. Watch what happens at 09:16.

DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 04 / 26
How to watch

Three things happen again and again. Count them.

▣

An agency does the work

and shows its working — every step, every source.

◉

The Fabric pushes

something nobody asked for — before anyone opens the case.

✶

Only a graph could

see it — a link no single system or case contains.

At five o'clock we will check: there were six moments only a graph could produce. How many will you spot?

DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 05 / 26
Before
08:30
08:45
09:15
10:52
11:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
15:30
16:30
17:00
Before the day · how it came to exist

Four weeks, then it is Monday.

KKevin
1
Connectevery system and outside source, in place
2
Discoverwhat exists, catalogued and profiled
3
Derivethe ontology, from the data — not a workshop
4
Resolve48,112 records → 4,012 customers · 217 queued for a person
5
Encodeyour policy as rules on entities, replayed on history
6
Composeagencies at the autonomy your leadership signs
4 weeksfirst connection to Monday
0 rowscopied into a lake
0 bytesraw data leaving the boundary
The resolved estate · before the day
DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 06 / 26
Before
08:30
08:45
09:15
10:52
11:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
15:30
16:30
17:00
08:30
The network moves

The day starts itself

RRuth
The question

What changed overnight — and what actually matters?

Watch for
▣The Monitoring agency recomputed every customer overnight
◉Six cards pushed to Ruth — not a list
✶Nordvik: twelve records across nine systems, one customer
The graph so far
NordvikBalticHeliosparent · sanctions
What just happened
  • 4,012 customers recomputed overnight; 37 events, 412 alerts, 9,300 transactions
  • Ruth gets six cards: Nordvik, Baltic, Helios, three ownership changes
  • Nordvik: 11 records resolved to one customer; one honestly left unresolved
37 events→6 pushed
material changes, each with its lineage
DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 07 / 26
Before
08:30
08:45
09:15
10:52
11:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
15:30
16:30
17:00
08:45
The volume

He is not new

PPriyaTTomasz
The question

A new retail customer — or someone the bank has already met?

Watch for
◉Before Priya opens the case, the Fabric tells her who he is
▣The agency works the case and shows every step
The graph so far
NordvikBalticHeliosparent · sanctionsAde
What just happened
  • Ade Balogun: a 2023 application and a dormant account resolve to him — no shared key
  • His 2023 screening decision carries forward; nobody clears that alias again
  • The agency proposes; Priya confirms; only Tomasz can approve
40–60 min→3 min
analyst time on a retail onboarding
DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 08 / 26
Before
08:30
08:45
09:15
10:52
11:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
15:30
16:30
17:00
09:15
Aurelia

Aurelia, needed by tomorrow

TTomaszSSophie
The question

Who is really behind Aurelia?

Watch for
◉At 09:16, before anyone opens the case, a link to another case
▣The agency plans its own path — and re-plans three times
The graph so far
NordvikBalticHeliosparent · sanctionsAdeAureliaCaspianownerPEP
What just happened
  • The Fabric linked Aurelia to Helios — a restricted case — through Caspian: same Majuro address, same director
  • No workflow was drawn: the agency built a 15-step plan from the policy
  • It re-planned on what it found: a lapsed licence, an offshore level, a PEP director
2 cases→1 link
between two teams that never met
DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 09 / 26
Before
08:30
08:45
09:15
10:52
11:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
15:30
16:30
17:00
Aurelia · the story so far

Who is really behind Aurelia? Walk the chain.

Aurelia Fintechthe customer 100% Aurelia Holdingsthe parent 68% Caspian VenturesMajuro · no public register 100% Aurimas Petrauskasthe owner spouse Rasa PetrauskienėAurelia's director · a PEP same address in Majurosame director Helios Tradeanother customer · restricted Helios's parentsanctions match · 02:40

Found by the Corporate Structure agency walking the chain, and by the Fabric linking two cases. The customer supplied the share register at 10:05.

DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 10 / 26
Before
08:30
08:45
09:15
10:52
11:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
15:30
16:30
17:00
10:08 – 10:48
Aurelia

A deadline, and a refusal

MMarcusDDavidSSophie
The question

Can the relationship manager get a shortcut to meet her deadline?

Watch for
✶The MLRO asks the console: who is really behind Aurelia?
▣A provisional clear, requested under pressure
The graph so far
NordvikBalticHeliosparent · sanctionsAdeAureliaCaspianownerPEP
What just happened
  • Marcus approves the PEP subject to enhanced checks; the Helios link is recorded
  • 10:27 Sophie asks for a provisional clear; 10:30 it is refused — policy does not bend
  • 10:48 cleared on its merits, by three named people
3–5 days→93 min
corporate onboarding, end to end
DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 11 / 26
Before
08:30
08:45
09:15
10:52
11:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
15:30
16:30
17:00
10:52 · Aurelia

Same customer. Two readings.

SSophie · relationship manager

A group to grow

  • A parent, a majority shareholder, a decision-maker
  • Two more group entities, a client to refer
  • The lapsed licence: a product blocker
12facts · both see all of them
TTomasz · analyst

A chain of control to defend

  • Evidence on every link to the owner
  • A false claim about the licence
  • An association under watch

One graph, two meanings. Nothing hidden from Sophie, nothing added for Tomasz.

DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 12 / 26
Before
08:30
08:45
09:15
10:52
11:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
15:30
16:30
17:00
Pause · the story so far

It is eleven o'clock.

Aurelia

Cleared at 10:48 — owned by a PEP's spouse, linked to a sanctioned network, a shortcut refused at 10:30.

Open question: why does it come back at three?
The network

Nordvik, Baltic and Helios were pushed at 08:30. Next: what they mean.

The volume

Ade onboarded in three minutes. Next: 412 alerts, then 2,412 remediation files.

The graph at eleven
NordvikBalticHeliosparent · sanctionsAdeAureliaCaspianownerPEP

Questions so far?

DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 13 / 26
Before
08:30
08:45
09:15
10:52
11:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
15:30
16:30
17:00
11:00
The volume

412 alerts — on 96 customers

LLenaMMarcusSSophie
The question

How many of last night's alerts actually need a person?

Watch for
✶Screening the customer, not the name
▣Materiality and the wall: who may see what
The graph so far
NordvikBalticHeliosparent · sanctionsAdeAureliaCaspianownerPEP
What just happened
  • 190 decisions carried forward — nothing about the customer changed
  • 3 brought back because new evidence contradicts yesterday
  • Nordvik judged material by Marcus; Helios leaves the flow; Sophie sees one sentence
412 alerts→71 decisions
for a person · about 40 seconds each
DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 14 / 26
Before
08:30
08:45
09:15
10:52
11:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
15:30
16:30
17:00
13:00
The network moves

The network moves

RRuthPPriya
The question

Baltic moved to a high-risk country. Is that the whole story?

Watch for
◉The Monitoring agency pushes the move
✶The risk the relationship manager could not have seen
The graph so far
NordvikBalticHeliosparent · sanctionsAdeAureliaCaspianownerPEPElbe
What just happened
  • 31 routine changes handled by the agency on its own
  • Baltic's move judged with its counterparties — four are in the same country
  • Two of them also deal with Elbe Kreditbank, another customer
214 reviews→66
periodic reviews that still need work
DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 15 / 26
Before
08:30
08:45
09:15
10:52
11:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
15:30
16:30
17:00
14:00 – 14:40
The volume

2,412 files, and one refusal

RRuthPPriyaTTomasz
The question

How much of a remediation can close without calling a single customer?

Watch for
✶Evidence found by relationship, not by search
▣A customer who refuses — and what happens next
The graph so far
NordvikBalticHeliosparent · sanctionsAdeAureliaCaspianownerPEPElberelated co.K&R
What just happened
  • 1,471 files closed on evidence the bank already held
  • 212 more closed on evidence sitting on a related customer
  • Kessler & Roth refuse on principle — not chased; handed to a person
2,412 files→19
touched by an analyst
DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 16 / 26
Before
08:30
08:45
09:15
10:52
11:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
15:30
16:30
17:00
15:00
Aurelia

Remember half past ten?

10:30Sophie's shortcut refused
10:31an FX trade for Aurelia goes through
10:48Aurelia cleared on its merits
The answer to the morning's question

A transaction against a case state is an incident — whatever the case later decides. Cleared on its merits does not clear 10:31. It goes to the second line, and stays open.

Every one of you has had this. Most of you found it at audit.

DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 17 / 26
Before
08:30
08:45
09:15
10:52
11:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
15:30
16:30
17:00
15:30
Aurelia

The agency that checks the others

DDanielRRuth
The question

Who checks the agencies?

Watch for
▣The Quality agency challenges every case closed today
◉A rule change, proposed — not learned silently
The graph so far
NordvikBalticHeliosparent · sanctionsAdeAureliaCaspianownerPEPElberelated co.K&R!10:31secretary
What just happened
  • Aurelia's corporate secretary was never screened: Daniel classes it major; 94 — fail
  • Screened, resubmitted: 100 — both scores kept
  • The gap happened 9 times in 14 days: a new rule proposed, approved by Ruth
5% sample→100%
of cases challenged — the same day, not two weeks later
DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 18 / 26
Before
08:30
08:45
09:15
10:52
11:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
15:30
16:30
17:00
16:30 · the manager's view

Not a queue. The book.

Aurelia Helios Nordbank Nordleasing via Caspian · address, directorvia Ostsee Logistik · a counterpartyby structure · re-determined, unopened
MMarcus · MLRO

Each circle is a case as it evolved today. Each chord is an inference between cases — one was re-determined without anyone opening it.

Marcus sees the whole book. Tomasz sees Helios without the sanctioned parent. Sophie sees Aurelia alone — what a person may not see is absent, not dimmed.

DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 19 / 26
Before
08:30
08:45
09:15
10:52
11:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
15:30
16:30
17:00
17:00 · Karim's screen

The day as numbers.

2,041cases closed
1,927by agencies alone
114with a person — where your authority matrix put one
71human decisions on 412 alerts
100%challenged by the Quality agency, same day
Every case closed today
six-element decision recordevidence pack · every claim to sourcereproducible without the analyst in the room
DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 20 / 26
Before
08:30
08:45
09:15
10:52
11:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
15:30
16:30
17:00
17:00 · what the bank knows now

This morning, 4,012 customers. Tonight, the links between them.

NordvikBalticHeliosparent · sanctionsAdeAureliaCaspianownerPEPElberelated co.K&R!10:31secretaryOstseeNordbankNordleasing
Aurelia · the chain to a PEP's spouse, a sanctioned network, an incident
The network · Nordvik merged, Baltic's counterparties, Helios to Nordleasing
The volume · Ade remembered, 212 files closed by a related company

None of it was drawn by hand. Every link carries its evidence — and tomorrow starts from here.

DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 21 / 26
Before
08:30
08:45
09:15
10:52
11:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
15:30
16:30
17:00
Did you spot them?

Six moments only a graph could produce.

✶08:30Nordvik — twelve records, nine systems, one customer
✶08:45Ade — three records, no shared key, one person
✶09:16Aurelia ↔ Helios — a link between two cases
✶11:00190 decisions carried forward; three brought back
✶13:00Baltic's move judged with its counterparties
✶14:00212 files closed on a related customer's evidence

Each system sees its own record. The graph sees the customer, the network, and the links between cases.

DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 22 / 26
Scoreboard

Every line on the right, you watched happen.

BeforeWith DataFab
Retail onboarding · analyst time40–60 min3 min
Corporate onboarding · elapsed3–5 days93 min
Alerts needing a person41271
Periodic reviews re-performed21466
Remediation files touched by an analyst2,41219
Quality-control coverage5% · 2 weeks late100% · same day

Illustrative operating baseline · in deployment, these become your own volumes and times.

DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 23 / 26
Total cost of ownership

The whole life of the platform — build, run and exit.

1 · Build
Bringing it in
Market-standard cost→40–50% lower
The usual route

A migration programme: copy the estate, map it to a vendor model, build pipelines — quarters before the first governed decision.

On DataFab

Read in place inside your boundary; ontology derived from your data. Weeks, not quarters, to a working Monday.

2 · Build & extract
Engineers
Forward-deployed team→75–85% lower
The usual route

Vendor engineers on site to build the work and extract the data — and back again every time the policy changes.

On DataFab

Your people and your partner compose the agencies in the Knowledge & Agentic Studio. No vendor team on site.

3 · Run
Running it
Second estate→45–65% lower
The usual route

A copy to run, reconcile and license by volume, on top of the systems you already pay for.

On DataFab

Depending on volume — agencies carry the work, people take the decisions that need a person.

4 · Exit
Leaving it
Exit programme→90% lower
The usual route

Unwind the copy, rebuild resolution and logic elsewhere, re-integrate — a programme of its own.

On DataFab

Systems of record never touched. Export the identity layer, rules, decisions and audit trail — in days.

Against market-standard costs at each stage · illustrative · run reduction varies with volume · validated against your own estate and volumes in the proof of value.

DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 24 / 26
DataFab
Next step

Your unit,
on one living graph.

Ask to see any part of the day again — including 10:31.

DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 25 / 26
Appendix · for whoever asks how

Four weeks to Monday, phase by phase.

KKevin
00Qualify & designdays 1–5
01Stand up the data planehours
02Connect the sourcessame day
03Discover & cataloguehours – 1 day
04Resolve & approvedays
05Derive · load the policydays
06Govern the graphdays
07Compose & assure agenciesdays
08Go live · expandongoing

Each phase has an owner and an exit gate. Gates that cannot be waived: raw data leaving the boundary 0 B · every source manifest complete · no merge on a name alone · every refusal produces a record · the customer approves every release.

DataFab · Financial Crime UtilityMERIDIAN BANK PLC · ILLUSTRATIVE · 26 / 26
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