The company behind Know Your Geography
Data Derivatives builds geographic risk intelligence for the financial services industry.
Geographic risk is a blind spot
The FFIEC requires institutions to assess risk across products, services, customers and geography. Most invest heavily in the first three and treat geography as an afterthought — flagging entire counties as HIDTA or non-HIDTA and calling it done. The result is over-alerting, manual analyst lookups and binary flags that examiners increasingly see as inadequate.
1B+ data points. One API call.
We aggregate data from hundreds of government, financial and proprietary sources — DEA, FinCEN, Census, FDIC, NAICS, ONDCP — normalize it across zip, county, CBSA, state and country layers, then apply machine learning to score every zip code. The KYG pipeline replaces weeks of manual research with millisecond API responses.
Built for scale, proven in production
Keith Furst, CEO and Founder
Two decades of financial crime compliance, data engineering and machine learning.
Industry experience
Built AML and fraud systems at major US banks. Designed 3,000+ fraud detection rules, then used ML to cut them by 60%. Deep expertise in BSA/AML transaction monitoring, case management and regulatory reporting.
Technical foundation
MBA with a quantitative focus. Hands-on with REST APIs, supervised ML for NAICS prediction, unsupervised clustering for geographic risk regions, and the full AWS stack.
Industry voice
Invited speaker on geographic risk in London, Paris, Singapore, Toronto, Kuala Lumpur and across the US. Regular contributor to ACAMS publications.
The geographic risk API suite
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