Pitch 2016 Web Summit, Lisbon

1. HYDRA
A Game Changing
Money marking & transaction tracking platform
Hydra AML Ltd., 2016.

2. Anti Money Laundering market
● Financial crime is global
Estimated to 1 trillion USD / year
Financing of Terrorism is a big issue
● AML and CFT are complex and expensive
Special human competencies required
Expensive tools
High penalties
Hydra AML Ltd., 2016.

3. The current process
Hydra AML Ltd., 2016.
Risk Management
Compliance
Know your Customer
Monitoring

4. The current process
Hydra AML Ltd., 2016.
Reporting suspicious
cases
… reporting about
their clients

5. Hydra AML Ltd., 2016.
The current process
FIREWALL
The detection of a case takes long time
usually 18 months on average
from first notification
to judgement.
The detection of a case

6. Current issues
Hydra AML Ltd., 2016.
Process takes too much time
The whole process takes 18 months in average
Banks spend more and more resources to investigate
Highly specialized human competencies
Expensive tools
Limited global AML activity
Huge differences in banks AML spendings
Legal problems (privacy, firewalls, borders)
Data issues
No instant access to all transactional data
Low Quality Data
Banks cannot deeply examine all potential cases
Wasting money and time
Too many false alerts
LEAs only receives a slice of all criminal cases

7. Hydra – the concept
Hydra AML Ltd., 2016.
What if…
Money could talk?
Our concept is about:
● marking money digitally at the source
● compressing information in the marker on the money
● modifying the marker in the case of each transaction
● collecting markers without Personal Identification Data (PID)
Hydra: The Pending Patent
The methods behind HYDRA have been subject to a patent application by HAML (pp nr. W1500080)
with the title: “A procedure for high-information qualitative marking and tracking of bulks consisting of
mass units or their transactions”. Hydra AML Ltd. is the owner of the related commercial rights.

8. HYDRA AML process – Smart input
Money in the account can be broken into separate parts based on the desired usage (VAT,
social contributions, subcontractors’ fee, local fees etc.)
Hydra AML Ltd., 2016.
Traitional process
Current quality of data, with limited
visibility on details.
Hydra process
This methodology provides better quality,
structured data

9. HYDRA AML process – marking money
● HYDRA Client marks the different parts of digital money.
Hydra AML Ltd., 2016.
Markers are
attached
directly to the digital
money.
The markers related to a
sum are similar to the DNA,
they show the origin and
background of the money
Markers are sent to
Hydra Central Unit.

10. Hydra AML process overview
Hydra AML Ltd., 2016.

11. Why Hydra?
Hydra AML Ltd., 2016.
Reduces AML/CFT related costs of banks
Less human capacities required
Automatized process with less false alarm
Improved investigation capabilities
Transactional data is instantly available / faster detection of crime
Pattern recognition in global scale / algorithm scans the full database
Firewall/privacy problems eliminated
Prevention
Allows to build more powerful AML applications
Quality data
New technologies based on AI, BI
Other AML vendors: cooperation/licensing platform

12. Our Vision
Hydra AML Ltd., 2016.
Industry standard – parallel system
● Law Enforcement Agencies
● AML software vendors
● Banks
Business model
● SaaS
● Licencing
● Data services

13. Early success
Hydra AML Ltd., 2016.
Horizon 2020 call
Proposal submitted in August 2016
Participant organisation
Research
Sheffield Hallam University- United Kingdom
Central European University- Hungary
Università degli Studi di Palermo- Italy
Corruption Research Center Budapest – Hungary
Industry
Hydra AML Ltd.- United Kingdom
ApPello Banking Software SRL.- Romania
Law Enforcement Agencies
Guardia di Finanza GdF- Italy
National Protective Service Financial Department- Hungary
Prefecture de Police, Paris PPP- France
General Directorate for Combating Organised Crime – Bulgaria
Advisory Board
Matthew Bradford, Detective Superintendent Director of NFIB City of London Police, National Fraud
Intelligence Bureau-NFIB
Dr Calogero Ferrara, Prosecutor of the Special Antimafia Directorate at Procura della Republica di Palermo
Dr Csaba Toth, Director of the Republikon Institute, Budapest
Zoltán Nagy, former president of the Hungarian Competition Authority, former compliance director of the
railway company of the Hungarian state
Jose L. Diego, Project Manager, Valencia Local Police

14. Hydra AML Ltd., 2016.
Contact
László Kürti
business development manager
+36.70.946.4234
laszlo.kurti@hydraaml.com Péter Szakál
marketing manager
+36.70.704.5669
peter.szakal@hydraaml.com
Thank you!