Sardine, the leading agentic risk management platform designed to protect companies from financial crime, announced its partnership with Helix by Q2 , an award-winning, cloud-native core purpose-built for embedded finance. Through this partnership, Sardine will deliver real-time transaction monitoring, fraud interdiction, and BSA/AML compliance tools, helping Helix’s sponsor banks and fintechs strengthen risk management.
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Sardine will integrate directly with Helix’s API-first core, providing an end-to-end fraud and compliance solution that spans onboarding, ongoing monitoring, and transaction risk management. The integration enables banks to stop suspicious activity across payment rails in real time, while giving fintech partners greater transparency and configurability across their compliance stack.
Sardine’s infrastructure allows Helix clients to monitor transactions across all payment rails, detect anomalies instantly, and automate BSA/AML workflows—reducing manual review time and compliance costs while improving overall protection and user experience.
“Modern money movement happens in real time and risk decisions have to keep pace,” said Ravi Loganathan, Head of Banking & Policy at Sardine. “Our integration with Helix gives sponsor banks a single intelligent layer to assess risk across every rail, including ACH, RTP, cards, and ledger transactions, before funds move. Together, we are enabling banks and fintechs to grow safely, remain compliant, and operate at the speed their customers expect.”
“Fraud prevention has long been a bottleneck for innovation in financial services,” said Ahon Sarkar, General Manager of Helix by Q2. “By partnering with Sardine, we’re giving our clients a best-in-class way to manage risk and compliance without sacrificing speed, efficiency, or customer experience. It’s a true example of how a modern core and modern fraud technology combine to deliver exponential value.”
“First Federal Bank of Kansas City is deeply committed to its fintech strategy, and the integration between Helix and Sardine is a strategic enabler of that vision,” said Josh Hofer, Vice President of Fintech at First Federal Bank of Kansas City. “The combination of Helix’s embedded finance infrastructure with Sardine’s advanced risk and fraud capabilities will help us deliver a safer and more scalable experience for our fintech partners.”
Helix by Q2 is an award-winning, cloud-native core and Banking-as-a-Service platform that provides the building blocks of banking to help fintech companies embed personalized financial experiences directly into their products. It powers innovative fintechs, brands, and financial institutions by offering a flexible, scalable core designed for embedded finance. Helix supports over 18 million accounts and $40B in transaction volume.
Sardine is the leading agentic risk management platform designed to protect companies from financial crime. Over 300 financial institutions and enterprises use Sardine to detect fraud in real-time and streamline compliance operations. To date, Sardine has protected over $1T in transaction volume for 503M consumers and 2.6M businesses.
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