Case Study: International Banking Group achieves $7M annual investigation savings and 66% reduction in false positives with Forcepoint Behavioral Analytics

Greater Visibility into Trading Floor Communications Saves This Bank $7 Million in Projected Investigation Costs

This international banking group, with operations in more than 70 countries and a leading global investment bank presence, faced rising SEC compliance risk as traders moved to encrypted and personal messaging channels (email, texts, Skype, web forums). Its legacy monitoring—a basic email archive and manual keyword searches—generated many false positives, lengthy investigations and heavy staffing costs, putting the bank at risk of multi‑million dollar penalties and a tight compliance deadline.

Working with Forcepoint, the bank implemented and customized Forcepoint Behavioral Analytics to ingest email archives, chat, Bloomberg terminal data, web proxy logs and other sources, using NLP and contextual analytics with embedded data scientists to refine models and fit existing workflows. The program met the SEC deadline, reduced false positives by 66%, and is projected to save about $7 million annually in investigation staffing while improving detection of risky trader behavior.