Error Tolerant Matching

1. Error Tolerant Matching • Acoustic Errors • Mr Haseez Abbafi • 99 Woodheyes Rd London NW10 9DE • Mr Hafeez Abbasi • 99 Woodheyes Rd London NW10 9DE • Semantic and Transposition Errors • Mrs Deolinad Abao • 1 Station Rd Barnet Hertfordshire EN5 1NP • Miss Deolinda Adao • Basil Court 1 Station Rd Hertfordshire EN5 1NG RCP Consulting Limited Suite B, 15th Floor, Casey Building, 38, Lok Ku Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Tel: 2815 9911 Fax : 2815 0611 E : Datactics@rcp.com.hk

2. Real World Applications • Data quality assessments • Single view of customer • Customer de-duplication • Data migration • Clean, match and merge • Vendor screening • Forensic accounting • Fuzzy search/retrieval • Address cleaning • Anti money laundering • Denied persons RCP Consulting Limited Suite B, 15th Floor, Casey Building, 38, Lok Ku Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Tel: 2815 9911 Fax : 2815 0611 E : Datactics@rcp.com.hk

3. Real Time Fuzzy Search RCP Consulting Limited Suite B, 15th Floor, Casey Building, 38, Lok Ku Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Tel: 2815 9911 Fax : 2815 0611 E : Datactics@rcp.com.hk • Objective • Identification and validation of university students making loan applications with third party lenders • Challenge • Complex and sensitive search criteria to identify as many applicants as possible without performance deterioration. Rules are client configurable • Encompassing periods of extreme volume processing volatility • Deployment • Web Service front end plus scalable cluster • Result • Guaranteed 7 sec response day in day out. 24 x 7.

4. Corporate Fraud RCP Consulting Limited Suite B, 15th Floor, Casey Building, 38, Lok Ku Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Tel: 2815 9911 Fax : 2815 0611 E : Datactics@rcp.com.hk • Objective • Detect potential fraudulent vendors • Challenge • Companies that have a large number of vendors are at risk of fraud. The impact of any one specific fraud is unpredictable • Deployment • The vendor lists were compared firstly to the employee list and secondly to a mail box drop/pornography shop list • Result • Results suggests that 1.5% of all vendors are fraudulent. On one account that led to the successful investigation of 250 targeted vendors

5. Anti Terrorist Application • Objective • Detect individuals on the OFAC list • Challenge • US companies may not deal with individuals, companies and vessels on the OFAC list nor with specific countries • Deployment • Rules were configured to allow maximum visibility of all possible matches • Result • In one account 15 entities were uncovered. • The US Patriot act enforces a $10m fine per entity RCP Consulting Limited Suite B, 15th Floor, Casey Building, 38, Lok Ku Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Tel: 2815 9911 Fax : 2815 0611 E : Datactics@rcp.com.hk

6. Denied Persons List RCP Consulting Limited Suite B, 15th Floor, Casey Building, 38, Lok Ku Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Tel: 2815 9911 Fax : 2815 0611 E : Datactics@rcp.com.hk • Objective • Detect individuals on the US Denied Persons list • Challenge • US companies funded by government may not deal with individuals, companies that have defrauded the government. The denied persons list also includes barred nurses and doctors • Deployment • Rules were configured to allow maximum visibility of all possible matches • Result • In every account examined entities were uncovered

7. Duplicate Invoices • Objective • Detect duplicate invoice payments • Challenge • Companies with large purchase order ledgers are vulnerable to paying an invoice more than once. • Deployment • Rules were configured to allow maximum visibility of all possible matches. • Result • In one account GBP 1.8m was discovered to be multiple paid. One vendor had triple billed their client for an entire quarter. One invoice was paid seven times. Their accountants had double billed them as well… RCP Consulting Limited Suite B, 15th Floor, Casey Building, 38, Lok Ku Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Tel: 2815 9911 Fax : 2815 0611 E : Datactics@rcp.com.hk