Watchlist Screening

Transform Watchlist Screening with Smarter Detection

Sanctions, adverse media, and politically exposed person checks with high precision.
Stay on top of the latest sanction changes.

Improve Screening Accuracy and Efficiency

Enhanced Screening Accuracy

Evolve from basic to smart holistic matching. Correctly identify sanctioned and risky entities in transactions and customer records.

Simple Data Source Integration

Feedzai is data agnostic and enables multiple connections to relevant watchlists data vendors, including LSEG (World Check) and Acuris.

Fast and Precise Remediation

Make decisions quickly with an easy-to-use Case Manager that displays contextual insights in one interface. Pre-defined workflows simplify investigations.

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Protect Your Reputation

Ensure your customer base remains trustworthy and legitimate. Complete and continuous automated reviews of customer watchlist status. Immediate alerts of any significant changes. Protect your institution from processing illegal transactions.

Align to Risk Strategies

Tailor screening to your risk-based approach with flexible configuration and fine tuning of rules for precise results. Whitelists identify and save repetitive matches to reduce the number of false positives.

Reduce Compliance Costs

Watchlist screening is central to an efficient compliance, customer onboarding and monitoring process, and transaction control. Feedzai’s RiskOps approach combines all financial crime prevention capabilities in an integrated platform so organizations can quickly collect data, accelerate onboarding and gain deeper insights into customers.

Access Clearer, Explainable Decisions

With Feedzai’s Whitebox Explanations, analysts get straightforward, human-readable text that justifies to regulators why an alert triggered.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does a watchlist screening solution work against global watchlists and sanctions lists?

Feedzai uses Neterium’s API to screen customer and transactional data against Sanctions, PEPs, and Adverse Media lists. Beyond holistic name matching, the algorithm uses additional data points for a confidence score. Potential matches trigger alerts in Feedzai Case Manager for analyst review and alert dispensation. Screening frequency varies based on customer risk policy.

What data sources are supported in Feedzai’s watchlist screening solution?

Customer Screening: Acuris, LSEG (World-Check) and other leading data providers.

Transaction Screening: LSEG (World-Check) and other leading data providers.

Clients can also use their own private lists for screening.

Can the screening engine adapt to new or updated watchlist entries in real time?

Feedzai employs a definable periodic API request to ensure screening occurs against the most current watchlist data. Data vendor SLAs vary, reflecting the different risk levels of the data provided

Does Feedzai provide audit trails or reporting for regulators?

Yes, a full audit trail is available through the Feedzai platform to show when a record was screened, against which data lists, and whether any matches were returned or not.

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