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Vantage Bank Taps Cable for Embedded Banking Compliance

Vantage Bank Taps Cable for Embedded Banking Compliance
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Alumni News, Alumni profile, Cable

Texas-based Vantage Bank announced this week it has tapped financial risk control platform Cable to facilitate the bank’s compliance and risk management program.

This partnership comes as Vantage Bank seeks to grow its fintech program and partnerships in today’s tightened regulatory environment. In recent years, there have been multiple banks offering embedded banking that have faced regulatory action over their offerings.

Given this heightened oversight, Vantage Bank has enhanced its compliance program by engaging with embedded banking experts to ensure it meets current standards. The bank said that it chose Cable because it offered an all-in-one tool to help firms keep up with evolving regulatory requirements in the U.S.

“Embedded Banking is under intense scrutiny from regulators,” said Cable CEO Natasha Vernier. “Vantage Bank is incredibly smart to get ahead of that scrutiny by building a best-in-class compliance program right at the outset. We are delighted that they chose Cable as part of that program, and we are excited to work with them and learn from them over the coming years.”

U.K.-based Cable was founded in 2020 to offer a financial risk control platform with automated effectiveness testing and real-time alerts that help clients manage, track, and have full oversight of the controls. The company’s initial value proposition was to help firms manage financial crime. Since then, Cable has doubled down on helping partner banks, including Axiom Bank, Quaint Oak Bank, and Griffin, manage their fintech programs. Last November, Cable unveiled Transaction Assurance, a new tool to automate effectiveness testing and ensure that all transactions are monitored and tested for potential regulatory breaches or control failures.

“Vantage believes there is tremendous opportunity to grow and diversify our customer base by leveraging embedded banking,” said Vantage Bank President and CEO Jeff Sinnott. “This opportunity requires that we have a robust risk management program and strong controls to ensure regulatory compliance. Vantage Bank believes Cable is the best platform to help manage our risk and compliance for our embedded banking program.”

Vernier, along with Cable’s Sales Lead Julian Brophy, demoed the company’s technology at FinovateFall 2022 in New York. The company started the year by launching a new integration option with identity risk management platform Alloy. The move allows Cable to seamlessly retrieve essential data from Alloy that feeds into Cable’s effectiveness testing checks.

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Cable Unveils New Automated Testing Solution Transaction Assurance

Cable Unveils New Automated Testing Solution Transaction Assurance
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Alumni News, Cable, Daily news
  • Financial crime prevention effectiveness testing platform Cable unveiled Transaction Assurance this week.
  • Transaction Assurance automates effectiveness testing. This ensures that all transactions are both monitored and tested.
  • Cable made its Finovate debut last year at FinovateFall 2023. Co-founder Natasha Vernier is CEO.

Effectiveness testing platform Cable has launched its financial crime compliance and transacting testing solution, Transaction Assurance. The new offering automates effectiveness testing to ensure that all transactions are both monitored and tested for potential regulatory breaches or control failures. This helps banks, fintechs, and payment platforms avoid the limitations of manual dip sampling.

Cable founder and CEO Natasha Vernier explained that the recent spate of compliance lapses – and the billions in fines paid by major institutions for these lapses – have revealed specific problems in financial crime prevention methods, including the way these processes are tested.

“These cases have brought to light gaps in existing protocols, including systemic failures in manual testing,” Vernier said. “These industry shortcomings are why we developed Transaction Assurance. It helps illuminate the vast, often untested expanse of transactional data, bringing that previously unseen 99% into sharp focus.”

Transaction Assurance acts as a sophisticated translation layer. The solution amplifies the effectiveness of first-line control systems by synthesizing and testing data in real-time. This ensures continuous adherence to an institution’s policies and controls. Transaction Assurance delivers actionable insights and alerts, as well as detailed reporting and analytics. This gives managers maximum transparency with regards to the institution’s compliance status.

“It is either Cable or four more people,” Steven Eisenhauer, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer for Ramp Network, a Cable client, explained. “No one questions the expense for that reason. For our size and volume, you would expect a larger team, but we have literally tested more transactions than all of our competitors.” Ramp Network and Cable announced their partnership in February.

Cable made its Finovate debut last year at FinovateFall. At the conference, the company demoed its Automated Assurance solution that enables banks and fintechs to automate their compliance assurance and effectiveness testing. The company’s technology also streamlines a number of manual compliance processes including stakeholder reporting and record management.

This year, Cable has forged partnerships with credit card company Yonder, digital bank Grasshopper and, in October, with unsecured business and personal loan specialist BHG Financial.

Founded in 2020, Cable introduced new Chief Revenue Officer Candace Sjogren in August. Sjogren most recently served as SVP, Global Head of Sales at crypto-as-a-service company Zero Hash. Cable has raised more than $16 million in funding, according to Crunchbase. This includes $11 million in a Series A investment from CRV, Jump Capital, and Stage 2 Capital announced in May.

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BHG Financial Turns to Cable for Financial Crime Effectiveness Testing

BHG Financial Turns to Cable for Financial Crime Effectiveness Testing
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Alumni News, Cable, Daily news, Funding
  • BHG Financial announced a partnership with financial crime effectiveness testing company Cable.
  • BHG Financial will leverage Cable’s technology to enhance its own compliance programs.
  • Founded in 2020, Cable made its Finovate debut last year at FinovateFall 2022.

Unsecured business and personal loan specialist BHG Financial announced a partnership with Cable this week. The company will use Cable’s financial crime effectiveness platform to improve its own compliance efforts.

Headquartered in the San Francisco, California, Cable gives banks, financial services firms, fintechs, and other organizations the tools they need to enhance their compliance programs. These tools include automated risk assessments, automated assurance, quality assurance, management information, and reporting. BHG Financial’s Director of Financial Crime & BSA Officer Bryan Holloway, stated that the partnership underscored the company’s commitment to regulatory compliance by providing “advanced tooling” for “greater efficiency, visibility, and insights across our business.”

BHG Financial has established one of the largest community bank loan and product networks in the U.S. The company has originated more than $16 billion in loan solutions since its founding in 2001.

“We’re delighted to partner with BHG Financial to bolster their automated financial crime assurance and testing capabilities,” Cable CEO Natasha Vernier said. “With increasing regulatory scrutiny on banking and fintech compliance, it’s a privilege to partner with innovative companies like BHG Financial (that are) taking compliance very seriously and embracing the best tooling available to protect their business.”

Cable made its Finovate debut last year at FinovateFall 2022. At the conference, the company demonstrated its Automated Assurance solution. This technology enables banks and fintechs to automate their compliance assurance and effectiveness testing. Automated Assurance also allows organizations to discover breaches and control failures in the moment. Additionally, Cable’s technology streamlines a number of manual processes including quality control, stakeholder reporting, and record management.

Founded in 2020, the company raised $11 million in Series A funding in May of this year. Stage 2 Capital and Jump Capital participated, along with existing investor CRV. More recently, Cable announced a partnership with Grasshopper Bank, joined the Banking-as-a-Service Association, and introduced new Chief Revenue Officer Candace Sjogren. Sjogren comes to Cable after serving most recently as SVP, Global Head of Sales at crypto-as-a-service provider Zero Hash.

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Grasshopper Bank Partners with Financial Crime Assurance and Testing Specialist Cable

Grasshopper Bank Partners with Financial Crime Assurance and Testing Specialist Cable
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Alumni News, Cable, Daily news, Women in Fintech
  • New York-based digital bank Grasshopper announced a partnership with automated financial crime assurance and testing specialist Cable.
  • The partnership will enable the bank to enhance its own compliance and risk management capabilities.
  • Cable made its Finovate debut last September at FinovateFall.

Digital bank Grasshopper has turned to Cable for its automated financial crime assurance and testing capabilities. The bank will leverage Cable’s technology to deploy next-level automation that will enhance the advanced compliance and risk management capabilities of its own compliance program.

“Cable will help us and our fintech partners take advantage of the latest automation to gain superior visibility and comprehensive compliance insights, which will enable our clients to scale more efficiently and responsibly – back by the leading advanced compliance technology,” Grasshopper Chief Compliance Officer Chris Mastrangelo said.

Cable offers a solution that enables both banks and fintechs to automate their compliance assurance and effectiveness testing. The company’s Automated Assurance offering helps institutions discover regulatory breaches and control failures when they occur, empowering compliance teams to take immediate action. Cable’s technology streamlines a variety of manual processes including operations in quality control, stakeholder reporting, and record management. The company says that businesses have achieved nearly a 6x average return on investment in their first year using Cable. Clients using Cable’s complete suite of solutions have saved an average of $440,000 a year, according to the company. Cable demoed its technology at FinovateFall last year.

Based in New York, Grasshopper is a digital bank with total assets of more than $700 million. The institution caters to the “innovation economy,” serving small businesses, startups, venture capital and private equity, as well as fintechs. The bank’s partners include a number of Finovate alums including Visa, FIS, and Alloy. Grasshopper won Best Use of Tech in Banking at the 2023 Banking Tech Awards USA sponsored by sister publication Fintech Futures.

“As one of the most innovative BaaS providers, Grasshopper demonstrates that integrating cutting-edge compliance infrastructure and automation is mission-critical to the success of the best BaaS companies in today’s banking landscape,” Cable CEO Natasha Vernier said. Grasshopper will take advantage of Cable’s Partner Hub, which provides compliance infrastructure that is specifically designed for bank-fintech relationships. This includes automated risk assessments, automated assurance, quality assurance, management information, reporting, and more.

Vernier co-founded Cable with Chief Product Officer Katie Savitz in 2020. The company raised $11 million in Series A funding in May. Stage 2 Capital and Jump Capital provided the financing, along with existing investor CRV. This year alone, Cable has partnered with digital asset custody platform Palisade, embedded banking software platform Treasury Prime, U.K. bank Griffin, and crypto payments company Ramp.

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Cable Raises $11 Million to Help Reduce Financial Crime

Cable Raises $11 Million to Help Reduce Financial Crime
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Alumni News, Cable, Daily news, Funding
  • Cable received $11 million in Series A funding, boosting its total raised to over $16 million.
  • Cable will use the funds to boost hiring and speed up its product development to help crack down on financial crime.
  • Cable’s technology helps BaaS banks oversee their fintech partners to remain compliant.

Financial risk control platform Cable announced an $11 million investment today. Today’s investment, which boosts the company’s total funding to just over $16 million, comes from Stage 2 Capital, Jump Capital, and existing investor CRV.

The London-based company will use the Series A funding to solve what it calls a “$4 trillion problem,” financial crime. Specifically, Cable will use the money to ramp up hiring across its product, engineering, data, and go-to-market teams, and speed up its product development.

“Raising money in and of itself is not our goal at Cable,” company CEO Natasha Vernier said. “We look at this fundraising as a way to reach more customers more quickly with the products and features they need to do their jobs better. To that end, we’ll be using this money to hire across our product, engineering, data, and go-to-market teams, and quicken our product development pace to make more headway into our long roadmap of products and features.”

Cable’s financial risk control platform helps firms reduce financial crime with automated account monitoring, quality assurance that minimizes the need for human review with simplified testing, real-time alerts, reporting, risk assessments, and more.

Cable was founded in 2020 and demoed its technology at FinovateFall 2022 in New York. Since launch, the company has debuted its Automated Assurance product that identifies financial crime regulatory breaches and control failures in real-time, launched its automated risk assessment tool, and created its Quality Assurance tool that offers business intelligence and workflow tools to help compliance officers succeed.

The company’s technology doesn’t just help banks manage financial crime. Cable’s infrastructure is aimed to work in the banking-as-a-service (BaaS) era, offering BaaS banks oversight over their fintech partners. In fact, Axiom Bank, Quaint Oak Bank, and Griffin are currently leveraging Cable to manage their fintech partners.

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Credit Card Company Yonder Taps Cable for Financial Crime Compliance

Credit Card Company Yonder Taps Cable for Financial Crime Compliance
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Cable, Daily news
  • Credit card company Yonder has tapped regtech company Cable to enhance its financial crime compliance.
  • “Now we’re starting to scale our member base, we needed a solution that could ensure our regulatory compliance as we grow,” said Yonder Cofounder and Chief Risk Officer Theso Jivajirajah.
  • Cable demoed its automated assurance technology at FinovateFall 2022 in New York.

London-based Yonder, a self-described “modern lifestyle” credit card, is giving its financial crime compliance a boost this week by partnering with regtech company Cable.

Yonder was founded in 2021 as a lifestyle card for U.K. consumers. The card costs around $18 (£15) per month and has a generous rewards system that enables users to earn points they can redeem for restaurant purchases, offers travel insurance, and does not charge fees for cross-border transactions. The company will leverage Cable to enhance its financial crime compliance and oversight processes.

“Now we’re starting to scale our member base; we needed a solution that could ensure our regulatory compliance as we grow, without any major headcount increases.” said Yonder Cofounder and Chief Risk Officer Theso Jivajirajah. “Cable’s automated monitoring across our financial crime controls helps Yonder address any issues right away, meet our regulatory requirements, and focus on serving our members better.”

Cable will offer Yonder access to its automated financial crimes assurance that will test each user account for compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering requirements. By automating the process, Cable will help Yonder save time by automating reports and reduce risk by notifying the company immediately in the case of a breach.

Founded in 2020, Cable has raised $5.3 million in a seed round led by CRV and LocalGlobe. Last fall, before landing Quaint Oak Bank as a new client, the company demoed its automated assurance technology at FinovateFall 2022.

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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Cable

FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Cable
By Madeline Clines Posted on
Categories: Cable, FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

Cable was founded in 2020 to provide automated assurance of financial crime controls, enabling real-time, continuous monitoring for regulatory breaches and control failures across all of a business’ accounts.

Features

  • Reduces remediation projects with real-time regulatory breach or control failure detection
  • Automates and centralizes partner bank oversight of fintech partners
  • Increases ROI of other compliance tools

Why it’s great

Why manually test 100 accounts when you can automatically monitor 100%? Scale efficiently and compliantly with Cable by ensuring your controls’ effectiveness as you grow.

Presenter

Natasha Vernier, CEO
Before founding Cable, Vernier was Head of Financial Crime at Monzo Bank, one of the first UK fintechs to become FCA-authorized and regulated.
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