FinTech & RegTech
BlackSwan
A risk intelligence platform for banks and financial institutions - making regulatory complexity navigable for the analysts and investigators who live inside it every day.
Type
B2B
Role
Lead Product Designer
Scope
- UX Architecture
- Multi-Surface System
- Design System
- Admin Tooling
BlackSwan is a financial risk intelligence platform that helps banks and financial institutions assess and monitor potential risk exposure to individuals and companies - covering PEP screening, sanctions, geographic risk, and entity relationships. The most challenging part of the project was the Risk Engine - the screen where all the system's logic is defined and where the thresholds that determine high-risk versus low-risk are configured. It carried the highest level of complexity in the platform and demanded an elegant design solution to make the experience usable.
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The challenge
Compliance teams at financial institutions work under unforgiving conditions: massive volumes of fragmented data, strict regulatory frameworks, and decisions that carry legal and financial consequences. The product had to translate sophisticated risk logic - entity relationships, ownership chains, sanctions, geographic rules - into surfaces that two distinct user types could navigate confidently: analysts performing day-to-day risk reviews, and investigators running deeper research on flagged entities. The challenge was bridging complex risk intelligence data with the day-to-day workflows of analysts who need to make fast, high-stakes decisions.
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Approach & collaboration
The project came in with an early product specification already in place. Through structured discovery sessions and a tight ping-pong process with the product and engineering leads, that initial spec evolved into a significantly more refined product definition - one that better reflected user reality, technical feasibility, and the platform's long-term architecture. I worked solo on design, ran targeted user research on the most complex components, and delivered a complete design system used across every surface in the platform.
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The Risk Engine
The Risk Engine is where the platform's intelligence lives. Administrators configure module weights, geographic rules, PEP and sanctions thresholds, and the underlying logic that determines what gets flagged as risk and at what severity. The complexity was layered: every parameter affected the others, every change had cascading consequences across analyst workflows, and the entire logic had to remain transparent and auditable for compliance reasons. Earlier iterations buried the logic in nested menus and dense forms - usable for the engineering team, impossible for the compliance officers who needed to actually own the configuration. The design approach structured the system into four core engines, each representing a different layer of the risk model. Within each engine, users could drill down into increasingly granular rule definitions that shape how risk is evaluated. This turned configuration from a form-filling exercise into a visual decision-making system: administrators can now see the output of their logic in real time before committing to it.
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Explore - condensed results
The Explore surface gives investigators advanced search capabilities for precision research. The standard pattern would have been search → results list → click into detail page. Instead, the results screen itself surfaces a condensed view of each match's most critical information - entity type, risk indicators, key relationships, jurisdiction - letting investigators triage and prioritize without leaving the results context. The deep dive is one click away when needed, but most investigative decisions can happen on the results screen itself.
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Entity Page - relationship map
For any individual or company, understanding their network is often more important than understanding them in isolation. The Entity page combines profile data, risk indicators, ownership structures, and relationship mapping to help analysts quickly understand connections between entities, assess potential risks, and navigate complex investigation processes with clarity and efficiency.
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Dashboard
A risk monitoring and compliance dashboard designed for financial institutions, providing analysts with a centralized view of cases, alerts, and high-risk entities. The interface transforms large volumes of complex risk data into clear, actionable insights through structured dashboards, real-time monitoring, and data-driven visualizations, supporting faster and more informed decision-making processes.
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Horizon Scanning
Horizon Scanning dashboard designed for regulatory oversight and compliance monitoring. This interface synthesizes global data into actionable insights, utilizing interactive mapping, temporal trend analysis, and bubble-chart topic modeling. By centralizing disparate data sources into a unified, filterable view, the design empowers professionals to track legislative shifts and emerging risks with high-speed precision.
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Deliverables
End-to-end design across the platform's five core surfaces, targeted user research on the most complex components, and a complete design system covering typography, color, components, and interaction patterns - used consistently across every screen in the product.
Testimonial
It was a real pleasure working with Meytal. She's a rare combination of professionalism, speed, and the ability to deeply understand complex products and turn them into something simple, clear, and user-friendly. Beyond her design talent, she always knew how to ask the right questions - the kind that made me think more deeply about the product and the right way to build new features and pages. The work with her was smooth, efficient, and precise. I highly recommend her to any product team.
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