Christophe LeClef, speaking at the FF News Tattoo Studio during Sibos 2025, is the Project Owner at Datavillage , leading infrastructure and software with a developer team. After a quick aside about placing a Datavillage logo tattoo on his inner forearm, the chat moves to substance.
LeClef says Datavillage encrypts data so AI can process it securely and the aim is privacy-first collaboration: let institutions exchange and interrogate sensitive data without exposing it, helping tackle financial crime while protecting customers. With a decade in banking and a prior partnership with the company’s CEO, LeClef sees the mission as a natural fit, turning a fragmented, risk-averse data landscape into something safe, compliant, and useful.
On fraud, LeClef is blunt: the losses are large and “someone pays.” Fraud investigations are slow and manual and the goal isn’t to replace human investigators but to supercharge them, automate the heavy data trawl, surface relevant signals faster, and let experts apply judgment where it counts. It’s about speed and accuracy, not automation for its own sake.
LeClef admits he’s new enough not to know the full story behind the Datavillage symbol, but he’s committed to what it stands for: secure data collaboration that shortens investigations, reduces losses, and improving outcomes.
