FinScan partners Quantifind for AI-powered AML screening

By Divya Shah

FinScan, an innovative systems company providing AML and sanctions compliance solutions, has partnered with Quantifind to integrate AI-powered adverse media intelligence into its compliance platform.

Through the partnership, FinScan will embed Quantifind’s adverse media screening capabilities directly into its sanctions, politically exposed person (PEP), and watchlist screening workflows, providing compliance teams with a unified view of customer and counterparty risk.

The integration aims to help financial institutions identify potential financial crime risks from global news sources before individuals or organisations appear on sanctions lists or regulatory watchlists.

Quantifind’s Graphyte platform continuously analyses global news and public data sources using AI-driven entity resolution, risk typologies, and multilingual language models to detect emerging threats in real time.

The combined solution uses precision matching, advanced data quality controls, and alert suppression technology to reduce duplicate and low-value alerts. This enables compliance teams to focus investigations on higher-risk cases and make more efficient, audit-ready decisions.

Graham Bailey, COO of Quantifind, said, “Modern compliance programs need adverse media intelligence that is accurate, explainable, and fast enough to support confident decision-making. Partnering with FinScan enables compliance teams to incorporate that intelligence directly into their existing screening workflows, helping analysts make faster, more informed decisions.”

The integrated offering allows banks, insurers, payment providers, FinTechs, and other regulated organisations to continuously monitor customers, suppliers, and counterparties against global news sources while managing investigations within the same platform used for sanctions and PEP screening.

The partnership comes as regulators and industry bodies increasingly emphasise the effectiveness of AML programmes and risk-based approaches to financial crime compliance.

The companies said adverse media monitoring is becoming a key component of risk assessment as institutions face growing exposure to money laundering, corruption, human trafficking, and other financial crime risks that may not be captured by traditional watchlists.

Deborah Overdeput, COO of FinScan, said, “Regulators increasingly expect AML programmes to demonstrate effectiveness, not simply the existence of controls.”

The FinScan-Graphyte solution is designed to help organisations strengthen AML compliance, improve risk visibility, reduce investigative workloads, and accelerate decision-making across customer due diligence and ongoing monitoring processes.