ADVISORY/Anti-Money Laundering and Behavior Detection Technology Experts Will Participate in International Anti-Money Laundering Conference.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Wednesday - Friday (March 26 - 28)

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Don Temple, 26-year former Special Agent for the IRS and an expert in Anti-Money Laundering and the Bank Secrecy Act, and Jim Hayden, an expert in behavior detection technology, will participate in Money Laundering Alert's Eighth Annual International Money Laundering Conference, March 26-28.

Hayden, Chief Strategy Officer for Mantas, the leading provider of behavior detection software for the global financial services industry, will speak on a panel looking at "Selecting, Benchmarking, and Using Anti-Money Laundering Software." Hayden will talk about how behavior detection technology is helping institutions protect their accounts, their customers, and their reputations.

Temple, who advises Mantas and its customers on anti-money laundering, fraud, and other enforcement and compliance issues, will be talking with conference attendees about the current regulatory and compliance environment. Temple is available to discuss challenges in attacking money laundering and complying with new regulations.

WHO:    Don Temple, Anti-Money Laundering and Bank Secrecy Act expert
        Jim Hayden, Behavior Detection Technology expert
WHAT:   Money Laundering Alert's Eighth Annual International
        Money Laundering Conference
WHEN:   March 26-28, 2003
WHERE:  Fontainebleau Hilton Resort, Miami Beach, FL

Background

The Mantas Behavior Detection Platform is used by a number of well-known global financial services firms as part of a best practices approach to money laundering and fraud detection, broker surveillance, best execution and trading compliance, and other issues.

Behavior detection technology analyzes every transaction across an entire firm, evaluating entities (such as accounts) and events (such as transactions) in context. Using proprietary techniques such as Link Analysis and Sequence Matching, the Mantas Behavior Detection Platform can identify hidden connections and potentially suspicious patterns of activity.

This is crucial in detecting an activity such as money laundering where any single account or transaction may appear innocent and it is only when a firm is able to analyze that account along with hidden connections to other accounts or to see the transaction as part of a pattern that suspicious behavior can be detected.

For more information or to speak with Jim Hayden or Don Temple, please call Susan Lewis at 703.653.5349 or email [e-mail]. More information about Mantas is available at www.mantas.com.