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Strise

Strise is an anti money laundering automation platform founded in Oslo in 2016 by Marit Rodevand, Patrick Skjennum and Sigve Sorasen, launched commercially in 2019 after three years of development, and now operating from Oslo and a London office. Its core proposition is data resolution rather than data aggregation: a continuously updated knowledge graph that links companies, directors, ownership structures, sanctions exposure and adverse media into one connected record instead of leaving them in separate databases, with natural language processing extracting information from documents and AI features that write a plain language risk summary for each review and widen adverse media search.

Its products cover business onboarding, individual onboarding, ongoing due diligence, identity verification, beneficial ownership discovery, back book remediation, risk scoring, screening and alert triage, and document analysis. It states that roughly 70 percent of top tier Nordic banks use it, and names customers across banking, payments, insurance, pensions, wealth management, audit, property and law, including Nordea, Danske Bank, Handelsbanken, the SpareBank 1 alliance, BN Bank, Sparebanken Norge, Vipps MobilePay, Storebrand, Fremtind, KLP, Formue, BDO, British Land, PwC Norway, EY UK and Orrick. BN Bank reports a 30 percent reduction in false positives.

It partners with Kyckr for registry data across more than 300 registries, Signicat for digital identity, and Stacc and PSA Solutions for distribution, processes and stores customer data on Google Cloud in Belgium, publishes its subprocessor list, holds ISO/IEC 27001 certification and a SOC 2 Type 2 attestation, and runs a trust center and a public platform status page.

Last VerifiedOctober 2, 2026
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Founded
2016
Headquarters
Oslo, Norway
Website
strise.ai
Categories
aml-kyc-financial-crime, compliance-and-surveillance, lending-and-banking-operations
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 10 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI Centrality
AA on AI CentralityThe artificial intelligence is the product. Remove the models and there is nothing left to sell.
Vendor Published

Relationships, not records, are the product: entities, directors, ownership chains and sanctions exposure live in one continuously updated graph, with natural language processing and false positive suppression around it. Without the models, what remains is licensed registry data, another company's product.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
BB on Autonomy and Oversight ModelA written commitment that the models work alongside human judgment, with real review surfaces, short of the full control structure: commonly the threshold at which the system stops or what happens after it is wrong.
Vendor Published

Each review opens with an AI risk summary that the analyst can edit, along with recommended actions, before submitting, and AI adverse media search sits inside the standard screening review. Routine cases are routed to automation and complex ones to deeper review, but no threshold says which may close without a person.

Model Risk Management and Transparency
CC on Model Risk Management and TransparencyTransparency is claimed in general terms with no mechanism a model validator could interrogate.
Vendor Published

Operational outcomes are published, but precision, recall and a validation pack are not, though European banks are expected to validate the financial crime models they rely on. Marketing has claimed fewer false positives than any other screening tool without naming a benchmark or evaluator.

Operational and Outcome Evidence
AA on Operational and Outcome EvidenceNamed customers with hard performance figures and enough method to test them.
Vendor Published

Endre Jo Reite of BN Bank reports false positives down 30 percent, and executives from BDO and British Land are quoted by name without figures. Platform figures, 80 percent of routine cases automated and complex cases cut from three hours to 30 minutes, attach to no customer.

AI Safety and Data Stewardship
BB on AI Safety and Data StewardshipA categorical stewardship commitment is published without the retention schedule or the engineering detail behind it.
Vendor Published

Customer data reaches third party providers only under negotiated contracts, and results are not shared across tenants. Whether documents, ownership corrections or review outcomes train the models goes unaddressed, though customers edit ownership maps that others share.

Regulatory and Compliance
GLBA and Data Privacy Posture
BB on GLBA and Data Privacy PostureA substantive privacy document that reaches the product itself, short of the subprocessor list or the full data handling detail.
Vendor Published

Auth0, Intercom and Mailgun appear with their locations on a public subprocessor list, and individuals have rights to access, modify and delete their data. No retention schedule or deletion timeline is published.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
AA on Security Certifications and Trust CenterCertifications named with their type and presented as retrievable artifacts, usually through a trust portal a buyer can open without asking.
Vendor Published

ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and a SOC 2 Type 2 attestation by Prescient Assurance are named, with a trust center on its own subdomain and a public status page that makes availability observable. The trust center runs on Vanta, and its documents do not open as public pages, so how reports are released is not clear.

Regulatory Status and Licensure
CC on Regulatory Status and LicensureThe regulatory position is unstated. Most vendors in this index are technology suppliers and being unlicensed is the correct posture, so this grade records silence about the posture, not a missing license.
Vendor Published

Outside the regulatory perimeter, Strise states no license, registration or sandbox participation, leaving the anti money laundering obligations with its customers.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
CC on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureResponsible artificial intelligence committed to in policy language with no evaluation behind it, on a product whose bias surface is modest.
Vendor Published

Names in non Latin scripts, or with several accepted romanizations, draw more sanctions and politically exposed person flags simply for how they are written. Fairness evaluation and a breakdown by name type or jurisdiction are unpublished, and the consequence lands on the person or business at onboarding.

AI Liability and Recourse
CC on AI Liability and RecourseMechanisms that enable challenge, such as audit trails and source traceability, with nothing standing behind the output and no route for the person affected.
Vendor Published

A business wrongly matched to a sanctions record, or scored high risk on a mistaken ownership resolution, may be declined without learning a model produced the finding. Strise publishes no commitment behind the output, and nothing says whether a correction reaches other institutions on the graph.

Integration and Deployment
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
BB on Model Supply Chain DisclosureSubstantial partial disclosure, or a chain that is structurally short: an explicit in house build, on premise deployment, per customer instances, or zero retention at the model layer.
Vendor Published

The same subprocessor list carries no external model provider. It dates from April 2025, before the AI summary and adverse media features, and does not say which models run them.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
BB on Core Systems and Integration DepthNamed systems or a documented public API, with the depth or the production evidence left open.
Vendor Published

Kyckr supplies live data from more than 300 registries, Signicat joins it in a no code identity offering, and Stacc embeds Strise in Nordic lending software, alongside a public API. Systems of record on the buyer's side, from core banking to CRM, are not named as direct integrations.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
BB on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyStated residency commitments or regional hosting options.
Vendor Published

All customer data is processed and stored on Google Cloud servers in Belgium. On premises deployment and region choice are not described.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and engagement runs through a demo form, which is the norm in this index.
Vendor Published

Licensing is quoted per customer, with no pricing, tiers or unit published. For a platform sold on cost reduction, how price follows portfolio size, users or screened entities is unknown.

Institution and Segment Coverage
AA on Institution and Segment CoverageThe financial segments served are named and each carries its own maintained material, whether the coverage is broad or deliberately narrow.
Vendor Published

Named customers span banking (Nordea, Danske Bank), insurance and pensions (Fremtind, KLP) and audit and advisory (PwC Norway, EY UK), among other segments. Roughly 70 percent of top tier Nordic banks use it, by its account, and the base remains concentrated in the Nordics.

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