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Abu Dhabi-based AI and big data analytics firm Presight has signed a memorandum of understanding with Dow Jones Factiva to explore co-developing AI-native risk and compliance solutions for financial institutions, regulators and sovereign entities.
The collaboration will combine Dow Jones Factiva’s regulatory-grade risk, legal and sustainability data with Presight’s sovereign AI infrastructure and agentic AI capabilities.
The companies aim to build predictive systems for sensitive areas of the global financial ecosystem.
“This collaboration seeks to bring together the best of both worlds: Dow Jones Factiva’s unparalleled depth in regulatory-grade data and Presight’s sovereign-scale AI delivery,” said Thomas Pramotedham, Presight’s chief executive.
“Together, we’re working towards redefining how institutions approach risk – through real-time, predictive, and contextualised intelligence,” he added.
Potential products under discussion include AI tools for identifying hidden ownership structures across borders, tracking sustainability controversies, detecting legal and policy risks, monitoring adverse media coverage, and mapping exposure to sanctioned actors.
Presight and Dow Jones Factiva tie-up a pivotal step
Joel Lange, executive vice president and general manager of Dow Jones Risk & Research, said the discussions could “mark a pivotal step in the development of next-generation risk solutions” for global financial institutions and regulators.
The companies plan to launch in the Gulf, targeting sovereign wealth funds, central banks, tier one banks and supervisory authorities, before expanding into Southeast Asia, Central Asia, North Africa, the UK and the United States.
Presight is listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange and majority-owned by G42. Dow Jones, a unit of News Corp, publishes the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch and other media and business information services.
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