Sanction Scanner
AI AML compliance platform with sanctions screening, PEP checks, adverse media monitoring, and KYC automation.
What it does
Sanction Scanner is an AI-powered AML and KYC compliance platform - providing sanctions screening, politically exposed persons (PEP) checks, adverse media screening, and KYC automation for financial services companies and regulated businesses. AI capabilities include AI entity resolution that matches screening subjects against watchlists despite name variations, transliterations, and aliases, ML adverse media screening that scans global news sources to identify negative stories about customers and counterparties, automated KYC orchestration that collects, verifies, and enriches customer identity information, intelligent false positive reduction that learns from compliance analyst decisions to reduce screening noise, and continuous monitoring that automatically re-screens customers when watchlist status changes.
Why AI-ENHANCED
Sanction Scanner is an established AML compliance platform that has integrated AI entity resolution, ML adverse media scanning, and intelligent false positive reduction into a mature sanctions and KYC compliance product.
Best for
Fintech startups and SME businesses use Sanction Scanner for affordable AML compliance - AI screening enabling regulatory compliance without the cost of enterprise sanctions platforms.
Mid-market fintechs and regulated businesses use Sanction Scanner for systematic compliance - AI adverse media monitoring and automated KYC reducing manual compliance review burden.
Large regulated organizations use Sanction Scanner for high-volume compliance screening - AI processing large customer populations automatically and continuous monitoring alerting to new risk developments.
Limitations
LSEG World-Check and Dow Jones Risk & Compliance have larger, more curated risk intelligence databases — organizations with complex global compliance requirements often prefer these more comprehensive data providers.
Sanction Scanner's AI reduces false positives but cannot eliminate them — compliance teams must maintain analyst capacity for reviewing remaining alerts and conducting thorough investigations.
AML and sanctions compliance regulations differ across jurisdictions — organizations operating globally must verify that Sanction Scanner's coverage and regulatory mapping meets requirements in each relevant market.
Alternatives by segment
| If you need… | Consider instead |
|---|---|
| Enterprise risk intelligence database | LSEG World-Check |
| KYC and identity verification | Onfido |
| Financial crime compliance platform | Hummingbird |
Sanction Scanner from $199/month for basic screening. Growth pricing based on search volume. Enterprise pricing negotiated. Annual contracts.
