Financial Crime Risk Surveillance for Compliance

Streamline AML, investor screening, continuous monitoring, and KYC lifecycle management from a single platform.

ComplianceAlpha®’s FinCrime Risk Surveillance (FRS) helps firms identify, assess, and monitor financial crime risks throughout the investor lifecycle.

Combining advanced AML and sanctions screening, continuous monitoring, Know Your Customer (KYC) and applicable Customer Identification Program (CIP) processes, and investigations in a single platform, FRS helps firms streamline compliance operations, reduce manual effort, and maintain a defensible compliance program.

FRS brings key financial crime compliance capabilities together in one platform:

  • Automate Investor Due Diligence: Screen prospective investors and related parties through a centralized workflow.
  • Monitor Risk Continuously: Monitor investors on an ongoing basis and identify changes in risk profiles as underlying data sources are updated.
  • Manage the KYC Lifecycle: Manage risk assessments, KYC refreshes, beneficial ownership tracking, document collection, and enhanced due diligence workflows.
  • Centralize Investigations and Case Management: Centralize alerts, reviews, escalations, and remediation activities within a single compliance workflow.
  • Reduce Alert Fatigue: Leverage AI-assisted screening capabilities and advanced matching technology to focus resources on higher-priority reviews.
  • Maintain Audit-Ready Compliance Records: Maintain comprehensive documentation and an audit trail across screening, monitoring, and KYC activities.

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What Do You Need Help With?

Many firms manage investor screening, KYC reviews, monitoring, and investigations across separate tools. This fragmented approach can create inefficiencies, increase operational complexity, and make compliance oversight more difficult. 

FRS unifies these critical functions in a single platform, helping firms: 

Streamline investor onboarding

Reduce operational complexity

Improve compliance workflow consistency

Reduce alert fatigue

Strengthen compliance documentation and regulatory defensibility

Support ongoing monitoring of investor risk

Why Choose ACA’s FinCrime Risk Surveillance Solution

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Ongoing monitoring of sanctions and watchlists
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Warning and fitness probity lists
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Adverse media sources

How FinCrime Risk Surveillance Helps Firms

Use financial crime risk data and advanced detection technology to screen against global sanctions lists and watchlists while reducing manual effort.

Identify and address potential risk indicators through automated alerts that support timely review and follow-up.

Combine the technology platform with expert consulting and managed services, including support from AML specialists.

Easily generate reports and maintain detailed records, ensuring thorough documentation and regulatory adherence.

Support AML, sanctions, KYC/CIP, and broader financial crime compliance programs across applicable regulatory expectations and frameworks. These may include U.S. regulatory agencies and requirements such as FinCEN, OFAC, the SEC, FINRA, the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), and the USA PATRIOT Act, as well as international standards and requirements such as Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards, the EU’s Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD), the Sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (6AMLD), and applicable national requirements.

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Discover how a unified approach to investor screening, ongoing monitoring, KYC lifecycle management, and investigations can help strengthen your compliance program while improving operational efficiency.

FAQs

AML and Sanctions Screening Solutions

AML and sanctions screening technology helps financial institutions detect and prevent financial crimes. These tools automate Know Your Customer (KYC), Customer Identification Program (CIP), and screening processes against global sanctions lists, watchlists, politically exposed persons (PEPs), and adverse media sources to support regulatory compliance.

They can help firms comply with global AML regulations, reduce financial and reputational risk, and streamline compliance operations by automating screening, investigations, and reporting.

FRS is a financial crime compliance platform that helps firms manage investor screening, ongoing monitoring, applicable KYC/CIP processes, investigations, and compliance recordkeeping within a single solution.

Traditional AML screening solutions often focus on sanctions and watchlist checks. FRS goes beyond screening by bringing investor due diligence, ongoing monitoring, KYC lifecycle management, investigation workflows, and audit-ready reporting together in one platform.

FRS helps firms screen investors and related parties against a range of financial crime risk indicators, including sanctions and watchlists, politically exposed persons (PEPs), adverse media, regulatory and criminal enforcement records, and other relevant sources.

Continuous monitoring enables firms to evaluate investors on an ongoing basis rather than relying solely on point-in-time onboarding reviews. As underlying data sources are updated, firms can identify changes in risk profiles and respond proactively to potential compliance concerns.

Investor risk can change throughout the relationship lifecycle. Continuous monitoring helps firms identify emerging risks, maintain more current due diligence records, and support ongoing compliance obligations.

FRS helps firms manage key KYC processes through risk assessments, periodic refreshes, beneficial ownership tracking, document management, and enhanced due diligence workflows.

KYC lifecycle management is the ongoing process of maintaining and reviewing customer and investor information after onboarding. It includes periodic reviews, risk reassessments, document collection, beneficial ownership updates, and enhanced due diligence activities when appropriate.

Yes. The platform supports risk-based compliance programs by helping firms conduct enhanced due diligence reviews, manage supporting documentation, and maintain records of review and decision-making activities.

FRS uses advanced matching technology and AI-assisted screening capabilities to help reduce unnecessary alerts and improve screening accuracy, allowing compliance teams to focus on higher-priority reviews and investigations.

FRS centralizes alert reviews, escalations, remediation activities, and investigation workflows, helping teams manage cases more efficiently while maintaining supporting documentation and compliance records.

A unified approach can help firms reduce operational complexity, improve workflow consistency, eliminate manual handoffs between systems, centralize compliance records, and strengthen oversight across the investor lifecycle.

Yes. FRS maintains records of screening activity, monitoring results, reviews, investigations, and workflow actions, helping firms demonstrate their compliance processes during examinations, audits, and regulatory reviews.

FRS helps firms support AML, sanctions, customer identification, investor due diligence, and ongoing monitoring programs through integrated screening, monitoring, documentation, and reporting capabilities.

FRS is designed to support investor onboarding, ongoing due diligence, monitoring, and investigations within a centralized workflow, helping firms streamline compliance operations while reducing reliance on disconnected systems.

When evaluating financial crime compliance software, firms should look for integrated screening, continuous monitoring, KYC lifecycle management, investigation workflows, audit trail capabilities, and tools that help streamline compliance operations while improving visibility into risk. 

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