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«Complicating is simple, simplifying is difficult».

Bruno Munari «When we talk about graphic design, many people think of the brands of multinationals, or the graphics we find online, or the typical kinds of illustrations used in advertising.

But in fact, graphic design isn’t just this, it permeates our world and every aspect of everyone’s daily life.”

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Static website and graphic design for the architect Diana Zabarella. http://www.dianazabarella.com/

2011

Diana Zabarella Architetto

One page static website and graphic design for the engineer Marco Schilirò. http://www.ingmarcoschiliro.eu/

2012

Ingegnere Marco Schilirò

Website and graphic design for the new company smartKYC.

2014

smartKYC

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Sectors

Area of responsability

2014

smartKYC

Brochure for the new company smartKYC.

The Smartest Way to Ensure Rapid On-Boarding, Client Loyalty and Cost-Effective KYC Compliance

The Smartest Way to Ensure Rapid On-Boarding, Client Loyalty and Cost-Effective KYC Compliance About smartKYC smartKYC is a global supplier of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) software solutions for wealth management firms and private banks.

Headquarted in the UK, with development facilities in Europe and North America, smartKYC invites all prospective clients to engage in a Proof-of-Concept prior to purchasing our solution, to prove value and demonstrate results.

Want to learn more?

Register for more information www.smartkyc.com

Contact us For best practice advice on your KYC process and more information on the smartKYC proof-of-concept process email us advice@smartkyc.com

smartKYC Limited 19 Heathman’s Road • London • SW6 4TJ • United Kingdom © smartKYC Limited 2014. smartKYC is a trademark of smartKYC Limited. All rights reserved.

A BEST PRACTICE APPROACH TO KYC COMPLIANCE

FACING UP TO THE KYC CHALLENGE FOR MANY COOs AND COMPLIANCE OFFICERS, ‘KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER’ (KYC) COMPLIANCE IS AN OPERATIONAL CHALLENGE THAT HAS BECOME A DAILY CONCERN. Who is your client? What is their line-of-business and the source of their wealth? Who do they liaise with, both socially and professionally, and are all of their financial associations reputable and legitimate?

KYC costs can easily spiral and the likelihood of human error can sky rocket, posing a very real risk of non-compliance.

Many wealth managers and private banks have yet to achieve KYC compliance, as evidenced by the number and scale of fines imposed by the regulators in recent times.

Maybe they did perform all of the necessary checks, but when challenged by the regulators were unable to prove that their due diligence was accurate and thorough. A very costly oversight.

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Multi-Language Accuracy. Searching data sources that return multi-language, multi-alphabet results requires expensive linguistic analysts to interpret which sources are relevant and linked, and which can be discarded.

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Regulatory Risk. Despite increasingly stringent KYC regulations, there is still no definitive set of requirements that wealth managers must satisfy in order to ensure compliance. As a result, wealth managers are extending identity searches wider than ever before, and storing an ever-increasing amount of due diligence data in order to mitigate risk.

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Sophistication of Money Launderers. Evidence that your clients and their funds are entirely legitimate is increasingly hard to find. In some cases, individuals can yield clean searches, even when their businesses do not. Failure to identify a connection between the two increases business risk. Business analysts are now spending more (expensive) time searching for KYC data manually, and looking for these interrelationships, than assessing business risk.

When Relationship Managers are empowered to validate identities and on-board clients quickly and efficiently, they are rewarded with profitable clientadvisor relationships that are built on trust and loyalty.

What else keep COOs and Compliance Officers awake at night?

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New and Rapidly Expanding Data Sources. Social media enables wealth managers to dig deeper into a prospective client’s relations with business associates, friends and political affiliates, in real time. This can generate huge quantities of data – much of it irrelevant – which must be documented and assessed prior to an on-boarding decision being made. Add to this data collected from other established sources, such as Dun and Bradstreet, LexisNexis, online news feeds, Google, and other search engines, and the requirement to store and track immense amounts of data is apparent.

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High-Volume Data Storage. The sheer volume of data that you must store in auditable form is vast, and rising. With more sources to check, more wealthy people emerging and more clients requiring background checks, your IT resources will soon be stretched to the limit. More on-premise storage means higher costs, and lower profits.

Top KYC Concerns

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Wasted Manpower. The number of man-hours required to discover every piece of information relating to every new client, transform it into a meaningful form upon which your firm can assess risk, and then ensure it remains current over time, is enormous. Whether you undertake this work internally, or outsource it to specialist search professionals, the amount of legwork involved in manual processing is immense.

Speed of On-Boarding. Your relationship managers and business development executives rely upon rapid on-boarding to satisfy clients and meet business revenue targets. The longer the KYC due diligence process takes, the more frustrated everyone becomes.

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Auditability. When identity checks are processed manually, the audit trail is unreliable. If the regulators knocked on your door, could you prove beyond any reasonable doubt that all necessary checks have been performed, and could you demonstrate why specific items or irrelevant information has been disregarded?

Manual KYC checks are labour-intensive, costly and fraught with risk, even for the largest of wealth management firms and private banks. If you are a small wealth manager, subject to exactly the same regulatory controls as your large corporate peers, the time and cost associated with KYC compliance can, in itself, risk business continuity.

SMARTKYC IS A BEST PRACTICE ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING (AML) SOLUTION THAT ENTIRELY AUTOMATES THE CLIENT VALIDATION PROCESS FOR WEALTH MANAGERS NEEDING TO GATHER, ANALYSE AND STORE KYC COMPLIANCE DATA.

Key Features INNOVATIVE YET COST-EFFECTIVE SEMANTIC SEARCH smartKYC’s semantic and federated search capabilities, combined with intelligent techniques for reducing false positives and duplicates, generate results that are relevant, precise and reliable. The semantic search process is entirely automated and every step in the process is tracked to ensure a reliable, well-documented audit trail. smartKYC quickly and efficiently collects the broadest set of information possible, about every client, and then organises it into a meaningful form that business analysts can use to assess business risk and accelerate the on-boarding process. To perform this task manually would take many man-weeks.

Your business analysts are more productive; they have more time to spend analysing anomalies and mitigating risk than conducting routine searches.

ELIMINATE UNRELATED AND IRRELEVANT INFORMATION smartKYC quickly and easily removes ambiguity from the KYC search process. When prospective clients have a common name, or one associated with a high profile individual (a celebrity for example), the amount of irrelevant data returned from a routine search is substantial. smartKYC applies automated business logic and intelligent sense checks that disambiguate client searches, returning only those results that are most likely to relate to the client you are investigating. This process saves many costly man-hours analysing irrelevant results.

MULTI-LANGUAGE, MULTI-ALPHABET SEARCH smartKYC provides a fast, cost-effective method for you to interrogate and analyse multi-language or multi-alphabet data sources. Search results are automatically sensechecked, in their original language, compared with each other to eliminate irrelevant connections and then grouped into a meaningful form for business analysts to assess. The need for multiple, multi-lingual business analysts is greatly reduced.

AUDIT TRAIL smartKYC maintains a scrupulous audit trail to satisfy your Board and the regulators that your clients’ funds were legitimate on the day you on-boarded them, and that nothing has changed to make you doubt that belief over time. Using smartKYC, you can demonstrate that you have taken all appropriate steps to ensure that your firm complies with AML and KYC legislation, and that your decisions to on-board clients are free of subjectivity. smartKYC entirely automates the search and primary analysis process, enabling you to trace every search, action and decision, and record evidence concerning the reasons why any individual was accepted or rejected as a client of your firm. This level of tracking and due diligence is impossible when KYC checks are performed manually.

DEFINITIONS

Semantic Search improves search accuracy by understanding the searcher’s intent and the contextual meaning of terms, locations, variation of words, synonyms, generalised and specialised queries, concept matching and natural language queries, to provide relevant search results in the entire searchable data space.

Disambiguation identifies which meaning of a word is used in a sentence, when the word has multiple meanings, to generate more relevant search results.

SCALABLE PROCESSING AND ARCHIVAL smartKYC is provided as a hosted solution, enabling you to scale your KYC activities quickly and cost-effectively, as business requirements change.

In addition, massive quantities of KYC data can be archived in the cloud, with low total cost of ownership and airtight security. While some wealth managers will opt for a 100% hosted or on premise solution, many will choose a hybrid mix: the cloud for KYC information relating to new clients, as most of this information is sourced from the public domain, and an in-house KYC store for personal data that relates to on-boarded clients. Both options are fully secure and reliable, the choice is yours.

SEAMLESS INTEGRATION WITH YOUR IT INFRASTRUCTURE smartKYC’s open interface allows seamless integration with other technology solutions used to power your business. Whether you are looking to integrate your KYC processing into core business work flows or map it onto your existing hosting infrastructure, smartKYC has the flexibility and agility to integrate quickly and seamlessly into your wider IT environment.

2015

Greeting Cards

2014

Moke up

2014

Automated e-mails

Documentary. “Guest, do not look here for riches, but the elegance of the form.�

From the claustrophobic, noisy and smelly alleys of Naples, a door opens onto a clear, bright and quiet urban space, utterly different from the world that surrounds it. A white staircase with two flights between nervous movements of curves and elegant balustrades leads to the large noble apartment, which belonged to the humanist Giovanni Pontano, acquired in the eighteenth century by the Duke Troiano Spinelli from Laurino, one of the most high-ranking representatives of the nobility and the prestigious Court of Charles of Bourbon.

Today, this is the property of Anna. http://vimeo.com/45010376

2012

Pulcra Domus

Stop motion.

Stop motion created to experiment with the three types of RGB shadows. http://vimeo.com/44978677

2012

Fishing Game RGB

BA thesis.

This project was born out of the fascination that I have always had for hands: the hand as an instrument, but also as one of the things that is distinctive of each person. For this reason, I’ve collected pictures of hands, that is, of my friends’ hands, and I’ve learned about them from their hands. The project has slowly evolved, and has become a collection of hands and occupations: the different kinds of tasks that different hands perform, and the ways in which a person’s occupation marks and her hands over time. The hand is a sign, distinctive of each person, and her history. The word “craft” here does not just mean craftsmanship, but all of the skilled tasks we perform with our hands. «[...] my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer’s hand’».

William Shakespeare

2010

Hands and crafts

MA thesis.

Investigative reporting on television was introduced into RAI a few years after the beginning of the regular television service (in Italy): it sets out the basis of a new form of communication, completely different from the documentary-style formula 10. Investigative reporting on television also develops through new technologies, and embraces Jean Rouch’s anthropological cinema in its contact method: the only truth that can be captured is the relationship between observer and observed, between the camera and what is filmed. Before the Fifties, investigative reports were already made through different media (radio, cinema, and press): these were related to many issues, e.g. the North-South divide in Italy and the poor working conditions, although investigated differently. Television authors like Mario Soldati, Ugo Gregoretti, Ugo Zatterin and Virgilio Sabel investigated all these aspects, giving voice to Italian people through field interviews and recording equipment. Such investigative reports still other today one of the most accurate and representative views of social stratifications and lifestyles of a country split between archaism and innovation. These transmission series, that are now kept at Teche Rai, give olive pickers, tobacconists, young people and factory workers an opportunity to share their personal story, as well as civil servants and psychologists. Investigative reports track comforts and discomforts, but also hesitations and puzzles. However the harshest aspects of life and words like “sex”, “abortion”, “suicide” etc... are not allowed

by Christian democratic RAI. So the authors of investigatve reports must always compromise their goals.

2013

Giving the Italians a Voice

Performance of self-representation through the color of classmates, then arranged to create a gradation: from monochrome to the brightest colours.

2010

Colour From black to white

This is a transposition of the short movie Skhizein onto paper. The protagonist of the film is dislocated by a fixed distance in his environment, as a result of being struck by a meteorite. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxoO3F6N81U

2011

Skhizein

Design for cover.

Timothy Samara my favourite books

2011

Making and breaking the grid: a graphic design layout workshop

To unleash creativity from the constraints of computers: collage on cardboard.

2008

Flat thought

ÂŤThe human spirit is always searching for new things and is never satisfied. Still, we can be sure to please the human spirit by showing it more than it had hoped to seeÂť.

Montesquieu

2008

Animated alphabet

This anthology combines images of signs in various cities, to show how they organize the spatial perceptions of their users. The project is organized chronologically, so as to illustrate the effect of the most successful graphic projects. It also reveals how designers are inspired by earlier projects in various ways. Readers can navigate through the project in a way that allows them to see the successive forms of signs in the same city.

2011

Communicate the underneath

The project follows an interactive route that runs parallel to the route through an exhibition in the Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome). The main points along the route are highlighted, each of which offers an interactive experience, which allows a visitor to draw or write material which will be combined with the contributions by other visitors.

The interactive experience can be mediated by a smartphone or a tablet, or by a touch-screen platform. Each entry ticket includes a unique identifying code, and a QRcode, which can be used to download the application that allows a visitor to participate in the interactive experience.

2012

I count therefore I am

Limbo Hotel is a collection of eight stories told by homeless people living temporarily in a hostel. Each of them sees the hostel as a temporary place of safety, but not as a permanent home. Some of the people interviewed kept their distance, some were more forthcoming. The silences in the interviews expressed their willingness or unwillingness to communicate, and the ease or difficulty with which they spoke. These silences are represented by dots, the size of a dot indicating the intensity of a silence, and the number inscribed in it its duration. The text also includes Qr-codes that link to related multimedia content, such as photos, fragments of the interviews, quoted passages, websites, etc.

2011

Limbo Hotel

The project was launched by VIU (Venice International University) and Moleskine to create a new collective image of contemporary Venice.

Four itineraries leading to places of artistic interest were selected, and bĂ cari (typical Venetian Inns) were mapped along the routes.

2010

Mapping Contemporary Venice

This is a fanzine conceived within a university laboratory programme to express the frustration of students without adequate wifi, library or mensa. ÂŤIn perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revoltingÂť.

Woody Allen

2010

Complaint and protest