Hawk (originally known as HAWK:AI) was founded in Munich in 2018 by experienced fintech entrepreneurs Wolfgang Berner and Tobias Schweiger, who saw the potential for a fresh approach to technology for AML and regulatory compliance. Our technology increases the effectiveness of financial crime detection, helping financial institutions to improve their risk coverage and find more crime, while also improving efficiency. It does this by dramatically reducing false positive alerts by applying fully transparent and auditable machine learning to high volumes of transactions.