Paris, January 21, 2026
AdvanThink, a French provider of artificial intelligence software for the fight against fraud and financial crime, announces the acquisition of Heptalytics, a specialist in the advanced detection of money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/FT) risks.
The aim of this operation is to strengthen AdvanThink’s compliance and investigation offering, complementing its real-time fraud detection solutions, and to accelerate its development in France and abroad.
Brice Perdrix, CEO of AdvanThink, comments:
” We are determined to accelerate our growth in the fight against financial crime, and to bring together the fraud and LCB-FT businesses, which share a common foundation in our software suites and in the future of payments. We are thus strengthening our skills to better anticipate the future and meet growing international demands. ”
Two complementary areas of expertise for financial institutions
A pioneer in Machine Learning for over 35 years, AdvanThink has been deploying benchmark solutions such as FraudManager and Amadea with major French banking groups, including 4 of the top 10 European banks, for real-time fraud detection and risk management. AdvanThink has more than 1,000 data & AI projects in production.
For its part, Heptalytics has distinguished itself through the use of state-of-the-art Deep Learning models capable of identifying complex mechanisms linked to money laundering and terrorist financing, by analyzing transactions, accounts and customer behavior.
Alexandre David, President of Heptalytics, adds:
” Joining fraud leader AdvanThink enables us to deploy our LCB-FT expertise on a larger scale and accelerate the industrialization of our innovations. Our common goal is to improve the relevance of alerts and boost the efficiency of compliance teams through faster, better prioritized investigation. ”
About AdvanThink
AdvanThink is a French publisher of AI and Data Science software, recognized for its technological lead over the past 35 years. Its business solutions, deployed in the banking, industrial and healthcare sectors, analyze data in real time, while guaranteeing a high level of sovereignty and security for the information processed.
In the field of risk management, AdvanThink is a leading player in artificial intelligence applied to the prevention of financial crime, with over 40 billion euros protected every day. Its suite of behavioral analysis platforms is dedicated to the fight against fraud, money laundering and the financing of terrorism. It supports retail banks, digital banks, e-tailers, insurers and mutual insurers. AdvanThink’s technology offers real-time analysis capabilities that are easy for business experts to use. It is based on 35 years of R&D in Machine Learning applied to anomaly detection, enriched by over 15 years of business expertise in the fight against financial crime.
About Heptalytics
Heptalytics offers an innovative artificial intelligence assistant designed to enhance the detection of suspicious behavior in financial transactions. The solution proactively analyzes and identifies risk signals at transaction, account and customer behavior levels, to improve the effectiveness of AML/CFT systems.
