Fraudsters can’t hide from Transparently

Fraudsters can’t hide from Transparently
The product was the brainchild of Hamish Macalister, devised during his PhD studies. (Image: Transparently)
Ben Moore
A former quant fund manager from New Zealand has turned his PhD thesis project, which used machine learning to spot accounting manipulation, into the basis of a startup that is poised to go global.Hamish Macalister, who now lives in Singapore, launched Transparently.AI in early 2021, along with his co-founder Mauro Sauco, who is director of Google Cloud’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO).Sauco is the CTO of the startup and Macalister has taken on the chief executive role.Transparently has just raised US$1 million ($1.68m) in a...

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