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STS558 Sachvinder Singh
✓ Semantic Clustering
➢ Valuable Data that Handshakes Possess includes;
✓ Capital Markets (Listed Companies): Singapore, Malaysia, Hong
Kong.
✓ Company Registry (Unlisted Companies): Singapore, Malaysia,
China, Indonesia, Vietnam.
✓ Regulatory Action across 80 sources worldwide.

3. Results
➢ The result? The ability to save valuable time poring over mountains of
data, discover relevant content in seconds and guarantee consistent
performance eliminating any human -error.
➢ The Handshakes technology is today widely used by Regulators (e.g.
central banks, market regulators, tax authorities) ,enforcement
Agencies (e.g. police, white collar crime, anti-corruption),Financial
Institutions, Investment Banking Professionals (e.g. issue managers,
placement agents, sponsors, corporate governance advisors) ,Lawyers
(e.g. onboarding teams, collection teams, corporate litigation)
,Researchers (e.g. Universities, Trade Associations, Professional
Associations) ,Private Investigators ,Journalists ,Auditors for the
following purposes;
✓ Uses Background Checks: Check on directors, shareholders,
beneficial owners and adverse track records.
✓ Investigations: Unified cross-border data,
interconnecting entities, syndicate detection, identify
indirect controllers, semantic searching.
✓ Surveillance: Push alerts on directorship or shareholding
changes, real-time news surveillance and alerts.
✓ Procurement Checks: Detect conflicts of interest, collusion.
✓ Automation of internal processes.
➢ The results of the Handshakes solutions have proven effective and
were even showcased in high profile news such as the following;
✓ Linked Firms Eyeing Same Contract
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(The Business Times ,12 September 2017)
Data by Handshakes - a portal that generates interactive
network maps of people and entities - shows four cases of
certain tenderers for the same jobs being connected to one
another by common directors - past or present - and/or
shareholders plus other links such as a common company
secretary and in one case, registered address.
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/government-
economy/linked-firms-vying-for-same-public-contracts
✓ A peek inside SixCap, a firm on MAS Investor Alert List

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