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Recognized by industry analysts. Trusted by the world's largest companies
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Recognized by industry analysts. Trusted by the world's largest companies
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The screening challenge
Screening is only as strong as the data and rules behind it.
Besides poor matching techniques, most AML systems fail at data preparation and audit trail maintenance.
FinScan is built to solve all three, at every step.
Hidden risk in bad data
Names buried in address fields, duplicates, and inconsistent formatting mean true matches slip through screening entirely.
False positive overload and missing true hits
One-size-fits-all matching buries analysts in alerts that were never real risk, slowing every review.
Proving it to regulators
When examiners ask “why did you clear this?”, fragmented tooling can’t always show the how and the why.
How FinScan works
Precision at every step of the screening lifecycle
Built on clean data to catch real risk that others miss, clear false matches, and back every decision.
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Built-in data quality
1. Cleanse your data
Screening is only as good as the data underneath it. The built-in data quality engine standardizes, de-duplicates, and corrects your records, so your compliance data is ready before a single screen runs.
A global insurer uncovered 400+ previously missed OFAC-listed customers after cleansing their data.
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COMPLETE SCREENING COVERAGE
2. Screen every name and every payment
Screen customers, counterparties, and every payment against 70+ global sanctions, PEP, and watchlists, including OFAC, UN, EU, OFSI, and adverse media. Add your own third-party feeds and internal block lists to screen against virtually any source.
Full payment-format coverage: SWIFT, SEPA, CIPS, FedNow, and custom formats.
SWIFT-certified
ISO 20022 native
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Self-Configurable
3. Customize screening
Set rules and enhanced review based on factors like thresholds, payment corridors, counterparties, jurisdiction, product, or data source, so high-risk activity gets a closer look and routine activity doesn't slow you down. Fine-tune your risk tolerance to your business without needing a vendor to make a change.
Adjust rules, thresholds, and risk models yourself, in minutes, with no support ticket and no vendor wait.
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Proprietary matching algorythm
4. Match with precision
Unlike traditional fuzzy matching, our proprietary field-based algorithm scores each part of a record on its own. This catches true risk others miss while cutting false positives, showing you exactly why every match fired. Percentage-based scoring blends a record into one number, so real matches get averaged away and false ones increase.
Up to 80% fewer false matches, with a clear reason behind every one.
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Dynamic risk scoring
5. Score & prioritize the risk
Most risk models rely on static data captured at onboarding. FinScan continuously calculates a single, holistic risk score using: live activity across your systems, plus customer profile, products, geography, entity ownership, and business relationships. With a current view of true risk and you can prioritize review by risk and time-sensitivity.
A single, dynamic risk score fully configurable to your risk policies.
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Case management
6. Investigate & resolve
When an alert fires, analysts need everything in one place to make a fast, defensible call. Consolidate every match on a single review screen, clear false matches, and configure escalation, assignment, and approval workflows that fit how your team already works.
Implementing FinScan saved one client 2,796 review hrs/year.
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aUDIT & rEPORTING
7. Evidence & report
Regulators don't just want to know what you decided; they want to know how and why. Every action in FinScan is backed by a detailed, step-by-step audit trail with full match histories, plus reporting and exports that support SAR/CTR filing and regulatory inspection.
Detailed audit trails on every screening decision you can prove on demand
Built-in data quality
1. Cleanse your data
Screening is only as good as the data underneath it. The built-in data quality engine standardizes, de-duplicates, and corrects your records, so your compliance data is ready before a single screen runs.
A global insurer uncovered 400+ previously missed OFAC-listed customers after cleansing their data.
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COMPLETE SCREENING COVERAGE
2. Screen every name and every payment
Screen customers, counterparties, and every payment against 70+ global sanctions, PEP, and watchlists, including OFAC, UN, EU, OFSI, and adverse media. Add your own third-party feeds and internal block lists to screen against virtually any source.
Full payment-format coverage: SWIFT, SEPA, CIPS, FedNow, and custom formats.
SWIFT-certified
ISO 20022 native
Self-Configurable
3. Customize screening
Set rules and enhanced review based on factors like thresholds, payment corridors, counterparties, jurisdiction, product, or data source, so high-risk activity gets a closer look and routine activity doesn't slow you down. Fine-tune your risk tolerance to your business without needing a vendor to make a change.
Adjust rules, thresholds, and risk models yourself, in minutes, with no support ticket and no vendor wait.
Proprietary matching algorythm
4. Match with precision
Unlike traditional fuzzy matching, our proprietary field-based algorithm scores each part of a record on its own. This catches true risk others miss while cutting false positives, showing you exactly why every match fired. Percentage-based scoring blends a record into one number, so real matches get averaged away and false ones increase.
Up to 80% fewer false matches, with a clear reason behind every one.
Dynamic risk scoring
5. Score & prioritize the risk
Most risk models rely on static data captured at onboarding. FinScan continuously calculates a single, holistic risk score using: live activity across your systems, plus customer profile, products, geography, entity ownership, and business relationships. With a current view of true risk and you can prioritize review by risk and time-sensitivity.
A single, dynamic risk score fully configurable to your risk policies.
Case management
6. Investigate & resolve
When an alert fires, analysts need everything in one place to make a fast, defensible call. Consolidate every match on a single review screen, clear false matches, and configure escalation, assignment, and approval workflows that fit how your team already works.
Implementing FinScan saved one client 2,796 review hrs/year.
aUDIT & rEPORTING
7. Evidence & report
Regulators don't just want to know what you decided; they want to know how and why. Every action in FinScan is backed by a detailed, step-by-step audit trail with full match histories, plus reporting and exports that support SAR/CTR filing and regulatory inspection.
Detailed audit trails on every screening decision you can prove on demand
Why FinScan
Why compliance professionals choose FinScan
Screen with precision matching to better identify risk
Expert in data quality, FinScan exposes concealed risk in bad data with exceptional accuracy and reduces false matches by 80% with a unique approach to precision matching.
Accurate compliance, only faster
Resolve cases faster with automated screening, review redirects, customized alerts, and detailed review trails all tuned to your risk tolerance.
Manage growing requirements with ease
Scale your operations without sacrificing speed. Stay compliant with changing and differing regulations across every jurisdiction.
See why FinScan is the smart choice
Some of the world’s largest companies rely on FinScan for their AML & sanctions screening
The precision shows up in the numbers.
80%
Up to — fewer false matches
10x
Faster response time per transaction
300B+
Records screened annually
65+
Countries with customers
Explore the platform
Software that puts you in control
Due Diligence & Onboarding
Deployment & integration
Operations tailored to you. Not the other way around.
Run FinScan where your security and data-privacy requirements say it has to run, and connect it to the systems your team already works in.
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Flexible deployment
SaaS, on-premise, or hybrid, matched to your security, data-privacy, and scalability needs.
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Real-time & batch
Screen transactions in real time or process hundreds of millions of records in batch.
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Open API architecture
System-to-system, real-time screening for payments, onboarding, and ongoing monitoring, configurable to your use case.
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Results anywhere you need them
Push real-time screening results and compliance status into any web-services-enabled application, cutting the lag-time risk of batch-only processes.
Security & compliance
Built to hold your most sensitive data.
Choose a partner that is serious about how your data is handled.
Enterprise-grade security & compliance
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SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001 certified (FinScan Payments)
GDPR alignment & data residency options
Encryption at rest & in transit, RBAC
Technical safeguards
On-premise deployments add native SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption and full disk-level encryption.
Strict internal access management keeps unauthorized staff, ours and yours, out of sensitive AML and KYC data.
Every screening decision and data-access action is permanently logged and available for regulatory review.
Data residency & sovereignty
FinScan hosts exclusively on Microsoft Azure, across six computing centers worldwide. You are provisioned in either a multi-tenant or a private cloud environment, based on your need for data segregation.
Your data stays inside its designated jurisdiction. It is never moved to another region for support or engineering access.
The hosted architecture mirrors the data isolation of an on-premise deployment: a single-tenant boundary, not a shared pool.
Platform hardening
Credentials are hashed and salted (PBKDF2), with single sign-on and multi-factor authentication supported.
List updates arrive over SecureFTP (SSL/SSH) from the Innovative Systems list management platform.
Development follows OWASP Top 10 guidance. Every release passes peer code review and static analysis before it ships.
20+ years
of internal, security-centered development, deployed in Tier 1 and Tier 2 financial services organizations worldwide.
Compliance teams trust FinScan with their hardest screening
A CREDIT CARD ISSUER
Reduced false positives by 67% screening 375M records
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353 additional sanctions & PEP alerts identified
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all 375M records across 14 sources screened overnight via batch processing
A GLOBAL HEALTH INSURER
Screens 95M records consistently across 10 countries
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155 data feeds seamlessly connected
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native-to-native screening, transliteration technology where native lists absent
Over two decades, the health insurer has relied on FinScan to configure AML to each country’s regulatory regime.
A GLOBAL INSURER
Reduced False Positives by 40%
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70M+ records screened daily
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enforced risk tolerance thresholds in practice
FinScan has proven it can support global scale and complex regulatory requirements without compromising control.
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A HUMANITARIAN NGO
Decentralizes screening to field missions
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stricter AML and counter-terrorism due diligence for UN, BHA, and European aid funding
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maintained central oversight and data privacy
Our team quickly understood how to perform searches and generate reports.
A LEADING PAYMENT PROCESSOR
Reduced false positives by 62%
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advanced naming patterns standardized data across 15 countries, correcting previous translation errors
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19,000+ hours of manual review time saved
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82 sanctioned hits previously undetected, now uncovered
A CREDIT CARD ISSUER
Reduced false positives by 67% screening 375M records
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353 additional sanctions & PEP alerts identified
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all 375M records across 14 sources screened overnight via batch processing
A GLOBAL INSURER
Screens 95M records consistently across 10 countries
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155 data feeds seamlessly connected
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native-to-native screening, transliteration technology where native lists absent
Over two decades, the health insurer has relied on FinScan to configure AML to each country’s regulatory regime.
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A GLOBAL INSURER
Reduced False Positives by 40%
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70M+ records screened daily
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enforced risk tolerance thresholds in practice
FinScan has proven it can support global scale and complex regulatory requirements without compromising control.
A HUMANITARIAN NGO
Decentralizes screening to field missions
-
stricter AML and counter-terrorism due diligence for UN, BHA, and European aid funding
-
maintained central oversight and data privacy
Our team quickly understood how to perform searches and generate reports.
A LEADING PAYMENT PROCESSOR
Reduced false positives by 62%
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advanced naming patterns standardized data across 15 countries, correcting previous translation errors
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19,000+ hours of manual review time saved
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82 sanctioned hits previously undetected, now uncovered
FAQ
Questions, answered
FinScan delivers an end-to-end anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions screening solution designed to help organizations detect, assess, and manage financial crime risks throughout the customer lifecycle.
FinScan provides a unified solution to meet global regulatory obligations with:
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Customer onboarding & ID verification
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Sanctions screening
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PEP & adverse media checks
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UBO identification
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Payment screening
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Any other internal or external lists screening
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FinScan stands out in its industry with a very important differentiator: a precise matching technology developed by Innovative Systems after 5 decades of expertise in data quality.
That means, unlike other AML solutions, FinScan focuses on preparing you data and allowing you to fine-tune screening criteria so that:
You can reduce false positives and manual review by 80%
More importantly, discover hidden risks that other solutions miss
FinScan processes over 300 billion records across 65+ countries annually and offers 10x faster response times per transaction than other solutions, making it ideal for companies with critical operations like real-time payments and user onboarding.
FinScan is recognized for AML and data excellence by organizations such as Datos, Quadrant, Chartis, FinTech & more, and is trusted by some of the world’s largest companies such as Prudential, Volvo, and Verizon.
FinScan uses industry-leading matching technology that is:
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Culturally intelligent – it accounts for global naming conventions and linguistic nuances
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Highly configurable – it enables tailored rules per jurisdiction, product, or entity type
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Data-optimized – with built-in tools to correct, enrich, and deduplicate records
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FinScan serves a wide range of regulated sectors including:
Banking and financial services
Insurance
Fintech and neobanks
Healthcare
Real estate
Wealth and asset management
Government and public sector organizations
Its flexible and scalable solutions can be tailored to meet the unique challenges faced by organizations of various sizes and industries.
FinScan offers comprehensive, global AML list coverage with:
FinScan Managed Lists:
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) List
United Nations Security Council List
European Union Terrorist List
Global Political Exposed Person (PEP) List
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) List
70+ Global AML Lists
Third-Party Lists: Native integration with all major AML risk data providers
Any Custom Lists: Easy integration of any list, such as industry exclusion and internal block lists
FinScan supports multi-jurisdictional compliance by providing access to a comprehensive, up-to-date database of global sanctions, regulatory, and enforcement lists, ensuring adherence to local and international AML regulations.
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