Abhishek Chatterjee is the founder and chief executive of Tookitaki, the Singapore company whose FinCense platform monitors transactions and screens customers for banks, e-wallets, and payment companies across Asia Pacific. He founded it in 2015 after five years at JPMorgan.
JPMorgan and the Financial Crisis
Chatterjee holds a master’s degree in applied mathematics from the University of Southern California and an MBA from INSEAD. He spent five years at JPMorgan in the United States, working through the 2008 financial crisis and collaborating with US regulators to make sure the bank’s products complied with the new rules that followed.
That work put him at the point where finance, mathematics, and regulation meet, and it is the same ground his company now covers.
Founding Tookitaki
He founded Tookitaki in 2015. In November 2019 he announced an additional $11.7 million that closed its Series A at $19.2 million, co-led by Viola Fintech and SIG Asia Investment, with Nomura’s venture arm joining and existing backers Illuminate Financial, Jungle Ventures, and SEEDs Capital following on.
A Community Model for Compliance
Under Chatterjee, Tookitaki built FinCense into an operating system for AML and fraud prevention and added the AFC Ecosystem, a community of financial crime experts whose typologies feed new detection scenarios into the platform. It serves some of the largest banks, wallets, and payment companies in Asia Pacific and competes with Napier AI, Flagright, and ThetaRay.
The bet behind it is simple. Criminals share their methods, and he wants the institutions they target to share theirs too.
