Alexandre Berkovic

CEO & Co-Founder

Alex is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sphinx, based in San Francisco. In his free time, you'll find him on the squash court, in the boxing ring, or on the tennis court.

Blog posts by this author

Compliance
AML KYC Integration With Core Banking Systems: A Practical Guide

Integration patterns, data mapping, cutoffs, sandbox and UAT, reconciliation, and post-go-live failures when connecting AML and KYC tools to a bank core.

Compliance
What Is Compliance Orchestration? KYC, KYB, AML on One Layer

Compliance orchestration routes data, decisions, and cases across KYC, KYB, sanctions, and monitoring tools. Architecture patterns and what to evaluate.

Compliance
Iran Stablecoin Sanctions: What the Senate USDT Report Means

Senate PSI report: 84% of Iran-linked sanctioned wallets ran on USDT. Why a post-designation freeze is not a sanctions program, and what regulators ask.

Compliance
Brazil Betting Ban: What Banks and PSPs Must Do by Oct 14

MP 1,394 article by article: CPF refund lists, the 7-day bank restitution window, SPA reporting, Caixa fallback, and the pending Central Bank Pix block.

Compliance
MSB AML Compliance Requirements: What FinCEN and the IRS Expect

Who counts as an MSB, FinCEN Form 107 registration, state licensing, the $2,000 SAR threshold, agent oversight, and what IRS BSA examiners find.

Compliance
What Is the OFAC SDN List?

The OFAC SDN List names blocked persons, vessels, aircraft, and crypto addresses. How screening works, what a true hit requires, and what a miss costs.

Compliance
BSA/AML Risk Assessment: How to Conduct One Examiners Trust

How to run an enterprise BSA/AML risk assessment: FFIEC categories, inherent vs. residual risk, refresh triggers, examiner criticisms, program linkage.

Compliance
What Are the Three Stages of Money Laundering?

Placement, layering, and integration: the techniques, transaction-data signatures, and controls at each stage, and why real schemes break the model.

Deep dive posts by this author

Deploying Interpretable AI Agents in Compliance
AI
Deploying Interpretable AI Agents in Compliance

Rule engines flag everything and explain nothing. Interpretable agents argue both sides before a person decides.

Validating Source of Funds When Documents Can't Be Trusted
Document Fraud
Validating Source of Funds When Documents Can't Be Trusted

Any payslip can be forged in minutes. Five gates separate real provenance from a file that only looks like it.

Crypto Transaction Monitoring at Block Speed
Compliance
Crypto Transaction Monitoring at Block Speed

Funds hop five chains before the alert opens. Five stages on one wallet turn a hop count into a disposition.

Behavioral Transaction Monitoring
Compliance
Behavioral Transaction Monitoring

Launderers already know your thresholds. Six behavioral lenses turn an alert into a narrative an examiner can follow.

Reducing False Positives in Watchlist Screening
Compliance
Reducing False Positives in Watchlist Screening

Nine in ten screening alerts are noise. Separate matching from the decision so the alerts that matter get read.

AI
Financial Crime In The Age Of AI

AI didn't just speed up fraud, it changed the rules. A handbook on deepfakes, autonomous laundering, and how compliance teams fight back without failing the exam.