How does Customer Screening compare to KYC and KYB?

ComplyAdvantage's Customer Screening solution streamlines the process of identifying high-risk individuals by automating checks against global watchlists, PEP databases, and adverse media sources. This solution ensures compliance with know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations while reducing the time and effort required for manual screening.

The platform provides real-time risk assessments with instant alerts for flagged individuals, enabling swift action to mitigate potential risks. Its advanced matching technology minimizes false positives, ensuring that compliance teams can focus on genuine threats. Comprehensive audit trails and reporting tools support regulatory documentation and compliance reviews.

With its robust capabilities, ComplyAdvantage's Customer Screening solution enhances due diligence workflows and strengthens risk management practices across industries.

Sardine's KYC (Know Your Customer) and KYB (Know Your Business) module streamlines the verification processes for individuals and businesses, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and mitigating risks associated with financial crimes. The module automates the collection and analysis of customer data, including identity documents, business registrations, and other pertinent information. Advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms assess the authenticity of the data and identify potential red flags. The system also facilitates ongoing monitoring to detect changes in customer profiles that may indicate emerging risks. By automating these processes, the KYC and KYB module reduces the burden of manual compliance tasks, accelerates customer onboarding, and enhances the accuracy of risk assessments. This leads to improved operational efficiency and a stronger defense against financial crimes.

ComplyAdvantage, founded in 2014, is a RegTech company that specializes in providing AI-driven financial crime risk detection and anti-money laundering (AML) solutions. ComplyAdvantage leverages artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to offer real-time risk insights and AML data solutions.

The company provides a range of services, covering:

- AML onboarding and monitoring
- Transaction monitoring
- Payment screening
- Politically exposed persons (PEPs) and adverse media screening
- Real-time sanctions and watchlist screening

ComplyAdvantage has experienced significant growth since its inception, raising $88.2 million through three rounds of venture capital funding and expansion of its operations with offices in the United States, Singapore, and Romania. The company serves over 1,600 businesses across the globe, including major financial institutions like Santander and Affirm, and clients have reported a 70% reduction in false positives and a 50% decrease in onboarding cycle time.

Sardine offers a platform to automate risk decisioning, catch more fraud, detect money laundering, and protect customers from scams.

Sardine's platform integrates several key functionalities aimed at combating fraud and ensuring compliance:

- Fraud Detection: Utilizing behavioral analysis and machine learning, Sardine detects scams before they occur by monitoring subtle changes in user behavior across the customer lifecycle—from onboarding to transaction monitoring.
- Risk Scoring: The platform employs advanced risk-scoring models to evaluate potential threats in real-time.
- Compliance Solutions: Sardine provides services such as Know Your Customer (KYC), Know Your Business (KYB), transaction monitoring, and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance.
- Device Intelligence & Behavioral Biometrics: By incorporating device intelligence and behavioral biometrics, Sardine enhances its fraud detection capabilities beyond traditional methods.

The inception of Sardine was driven by the founders' experiences in the fintech space, particularly their recognition of the fragmented nature of fraud prevention services available to cryptocurrency and neobanking sectors. Ranjan's background in cybersecurity and machine learning, alongside the team's collective expertise, led to the development of a unified API platform designed to tackle various fraud risks comprehensively. The name "Sardine" is a nod to Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), which are critical in reporting financial crimes.