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The Executive Compliance Collective: NYC Edition 🗽 Earlier this week, Arva AI brought together a curated group of Compliance and FinCrime leaders from top banks and fintechs for the latest instalment of our dinner series together with Kobalt Labs. While the industry often focuses on the "what" of AI, our conversation took a deeper dive into the "how." As financial institutions move from experimental pilots to full-scale production, we��re seeing a shift toward solving the pragmatic friction between innovation and implementation. Thank you to everyone who joined us for an evening of excellent food and even better insights.

Risk and compliance are being redefined in the age of AI - not just as safeguards, but as systems that enable speed, visibility, and trust. At Fintech Meetup next week, Arva AI will be joining the conversation on how leading teams are making that shift in practice and what it takes to balance innovation with control. Come hear Rhim Shah, CAMS speak on this topic alongside Jason Price, Kayce Seifert, and Erin DeWitt. 📍 The Pulse | 🗓️ 1 April at 10:25 PT 

We’re excited to welcome Christian Roy to Arva AI on our GTM team in New York! Christian joins us with experience in the financial services industry, having worked in Wealth Management Operations at Morgan Stanley. His firsthand understanding of how financial institutions operate behind the scenes brings valuable perspective to the team. Welcome aboard, Christian!

The Arva AI team is heading to Fintech Meetup later this month. Rhim Shah, CAMS will be on stage discussing how AI is reshaping risk and compliance in financial services. Come check out the panel on the Pulse stage on 1 April. If you’ll be there, we’d love to connect.

We’re thrilled to welcome Renato Angrisani to Arva AI as our new Head of Product. Renato joins us with extensive experience building and scaling critical functions inside some of Europe’s leading fintech companies such as Trade Republic and Revolut. Renato’s background in data science and engineering gives him a uniquely technical approach to product - combining deep systems thinking with operational understanding of how financial platforms actually run. We’re excited to have him shaping product at Arva AI and helping us build what comes next.

We're excited to welcome Zhanibek Nurzhanuly to Arva AI in our GTM team! Zhanibek brings deep GTM knowledge, a strong startup background and prior experience in the fintech space. He's already hit the ground running, from leading outreach campaigns and thoughtfully refining product messaging to scaling our outbound infrastructure. Welcome aboard Zhanibek!

Since going live with OakNorth, Arva AI has been driving faster and more efficient customer onboarding across their workflows. The impact is measurable, every month we save approximately two weeks of investigative time. The focus has been on improving speed and scale, while maintaining robust and responsible AI standards. As with any deployment in a regulated environment, what matters over time is consistency. In this case, the system has been operating reliably in production, supporting the team as they continue to grow.

Building AI is easy. Proving it’s safe to deploy is the hard part. This week, our CEO Rhim Shah, CAMS spoke with Kareem Saleh (FairPlay AI) about what it really takes to validate agentic AI once it’s in production — especially in regulated environments. At Arva AI we operate in environments where “it performs well on average” isn’t good enough. Robustness means a system holds up across messy data, edge cases, shifting patterns, and real scrutiny. That’s why validation has to go beyond accuracy. It includes – fairness you can demonstrate – explainability that stands up to review – strong data governance – and a clear path to automation at scale These are what make AI deployable in the first place. Want to learn more? Watch the full interview link in our article 👇

We're proud to announce that Zopa Bank has chosen Arva AI agents to support its screening workflows. Robust and secure financial crime compliance agents handle screening and investigative review, reducing manual casework for financial crime compliance analysts across the bank. As a regulated bank, Zopa requires the highest standards of robustness and explainability. We have made it one of our core principles to deliver that from day one.

We are hiring across GTM, Product, and Engineering in New York City and London! At Arva AI, we are building AI Agents to help financial crime compliance teams automate their operations. We are backed by Y Combinator, Google's AI fund, and some of the most knowledgeable advisors in the industry. Our team is made up of all-stars, allowing us to service some of the largest fintechs and banks around the world! There couldn't be a better time to join. Come build and scale with us! Check out our open roles - link in the comments.