Jeeta Bandopadhyay, co-founder and COO of Singapore-based regtech Tookitaki, has helped drive the company’s adoption of artificial intelligence over the past decade. She speaks with DigFin‘s Jame DiBiasio about her journey as a founder, onboarding the first bank customers, and evolutions in AI that impact how banks and fintechs can spot frauds and handle AML compliance more easily. Jeeta also talks about the strategy behind partnerships with investors such as payments company Thunes and VC True Global Ventures. Timecodes: 0:00 – Jeeta Bandopadhyay, Tookitaki 0:40 – Founding the company and moving to Singapore 3:05 – Learning AI as a non-technical founder 6:06 – How Tookitaki won its first bank clients 9:10 – Treating shared data and working off the cloud 12:41 – AI evolves from optimization to transformation as it intersects with more points of decentralization (and what that means) 15:16 – How clients are able to share and learn from compliance experiences 16:24 – Adding Tookitaki analysis to DLT systems? 17:34 – Selling a majority stake to payment company Tunes 19:03 – Banks versus fintechs as customers 20:15 – New use cases for compliance teams using LLMs 23:24 – More expansion and R&D with True Global Ventures investment 25:56 – Commercial goals for 2025 and end goals for the business