Chrisjan Wüst, Co-Founder & CTO of Sphinx

Chrisjan Wüst

CTO & Co-Founder

Chrisjan is the Co-Founder & CTO of Sphinx, based in San Francisco. A self-taught engineer from Cape Town who started building at 13, he leads the team building AI compliance agents that banks actually trust.

Blog posts by this author

Compliance
Document Fraud Detection for Credit Unions

Credit unions face document fraud at three unique entry points: member onboarding, indirect lending, and shared branching. How to evaluate detection at credit union scale.

Compliance
Financial Crime Detection vs Prevention: What Actually Works

Financial crime detection identifies suspicious activity after the fact. Prevention stops it before funds move. Here is how to evaluate the right balance for your compliance program.

Compliance
Customer Due Diligence Requirements for Banks: A Complete Guide

What banks must verify, monitor, and document under FinCEN's CDD Rule — including the 2026 beneficial ownership changes and how to evaluate your program.

Compliance
How Do Modern Fraud Detection Methods Work?

Modern fraud detection layers ML scoring, behavioral biometrics, and graph neural networks to catch fraud in milliseconds while reducing false positives.

AI
How We Built Real-Time AML Monitoring Beyond Batch Processing

Sphinx's real-time AML monitoring evaluates transactions before settlement using agentic AI, replacing batch processing for instant payment rails like FedNow.

AI
What Claude Fable 5 Means for Compliance

Claude Fable 5 was banned three days after launch, then reinstated. Here's what the episode means for compliance teams adopting AI.

Compliance
Best Fraud Detection Platforms in 2026: A Ranked Comparison

Ranked comparison of the best fraud detection platforms in 2026 covering Feedzai, NICE Actimize, Featurespace, SAS, and Hawk AI with an evaluation framework.

Compliance
What is UBO Identification? A Complete Guide

UBO identification traces beneficial ownership through corporate layers to find the natural persons who own or control an entity.