Every payment clears in seconds. Your compliance checks need to keep up.
Modern payment platforms process thousands of transactions a minute. Your AML checks need to happen at the same speed. Sanction Scanner screens every sender and receiver in 150ms automatically, via API, without interrupting the payment flow.
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Batch screening takes minutes. Regulators now expect seconds.
Modern payment platforms process transactions faster than any manual or end-of-day compliance process can handle. Real-time payments demand real-time compliance.
Of payment compliance teams feel overwhelmed every month.
High transaction volumes generate alerts faster than analysts can clear them. Fragmented data makes it impossible to get a unified view of customer risk. The result is not just operational strain, it is the kind of compliance blind spots that attract regulatory scrutiny.
A fine hurts. A suspended licence stops your business entirely. Payment companies that fail AML obligations do not just face financial penalties, they risk losing the authorisation that allows them to operate. Regulators have revoked licences for exactly the kind of control failures that automated screening and monitoring are designed to prevent.
The EU Instant Payments Regulation, 6AMLD, PSD2, and FATF’s Travel Rule have collectively transformed what is expected of payment companies. Real-time screening is no longer a competitive advantage, it is a regulatory baseline. PSPs still running batch processes are already operating below the standard regulators expect.
Compliance that moves as fast as your payments do
Every module connects to your payment platform via API in days, not months.
Screen every sender and receiver before the payment clears
Sanction Scanner’s Transaction Screening checks both sides of every payment sender and receiver against 3,000+ global sanctions lists, PEP databases, and watchlists in an average of 150ms. Fully automated via API. No manual intervention. No delays to the payment flow.
Transaction Screening →Detect suspicious patterns across your entire transaction flow
Transaction Monitoring gives your compliance team real-time surveillance with configurable rules and risk-based scoring. Set your own thresholds and scenarios. The platform flags the anomalies. Your team investigates only what matters.
Transaction Monitoring →Know who is behind every account before you onboard them
Before a customer accesses your platform, Sanction Scanner screens them against global sanctions, PEP lists, and adverse media in seconds. Data updated every 15 minutes means you onboard with current intelligence, not stale data.
AML Screening →Verify the businesses you work with, not just the individuals
Payment platforms process transactions on behalf of merchants and corporate clients. KYB verifies business structures, identifies Ultimate Beneficial Owners, and flags hidden risks before they become your compliance problem.
Know Your Business →Re-screen your entire customer base automatically, every day
Ongoing Monitoring re-screens every customer in your portfolio daily and alerts your team the moment a risk status changes. No manual triggers. No gaps between onboarding and the next review cycle.
Ongoing Monitoring →Live in days. Built for your stack. Payment companies cannot afford slow implementations. Sanction Scanner integrates via a RESTful API with webhook support, designed specifically for payment platform architectures.
API Integration →Built for the frameworks that govern payment compliance
From EU Instant Payments to FATF Travel Rule Sanction Scanner maps to every framework governing PSPs globally.
Real-time sanctions screening that satisfies the 10-second processing requirement. No batch delays. Compliant by design.
Strong customer authentication, transaction monitoring, and fraud detection aligned with European Banking Authority expectations for payment institutions.
Originator and beneficiary data screening across all payment rails, supporting Travel Rule compliance for cross-border transfers.
Real-time screening against SDN and OFAC Consolidated lists, with reporting support aligned to FinCEN requirements for money services businesses and payment processors.
Configurable rule sets and full audit trails designed to meet FCA expectations for authorised payment institutions and e-money firms.
How a payment services provider scaled AML compliance without scaling headcount
A payment services company needed a compliance setup that could handle growing transaction volumes in real time without adding friction to the payment flow. Here’s how they did it with Sanction Scanner.
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