A New Era for Anti-Money Laundering
For years, anti-money laundering efforts have struggled to keep pace with the very crimes they aim to prevent. Traditional systems were built for a slower era—one where static risk models, periodic reviews, and siloed data were enough to satisfy regulators. That era is over.
Today, financial crime is faster, more coordinated, and more difficult to detect than ever before. Sophisticated networks move funds through digital platforms in seconds, exploiting regulatory blind spots across jurisdictions and asset classes. Compliance teams, meanwhile, are left grappling with outdated tools that generate too many false positives and too few real insights.
Why Current AML Approaches Are Falling Short
The challenge isn’t just the volume or complexity of financial crime—it’s the growing expectation that firms should anticipate and prevent it before damage is done. That’s where the next wave of AML technology comes in.
Recent research by Burton Taylor Consulting found that global spend on AML is expected to surge to $2.9bn by the end of 2025, showcasing a growing demand for technologies that meet the growing demand for such technologies in a digitally evolving world.
In a recent FinTech Global feature that asked whether 2025 would be the year of regulatory automation, various companies discussed the important role such a move would have on improving AML within the financial sector.
Future-Ready AML: Intelligent, Adaptive, Proactive
Future-ready AML isn’t just about ticking boxes. It’s about embedding intelligence into every layer of detection, investigation, and decision-making. From AI-driven risk models that evolve with behaviour patterns, to collaborative platforms that enable real-time information sharing across institutions, the future of AML is adaptive, integrated, and proactive by design.
In this landscape of escalating threats and rising expectations, a new generation of AML tools is stepping up—not just to react to risk, but to outpace it. From platforms that harness behavioural analytics to detect anomalies in real time, to cloud-native systems that unify fragmented workflows, these innovations are redefining what effective compliance looks like. The future of AML isn’t about doing more of the same—it’s about doing things differently.
Key AML Solutions Shaping the Future
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Company Overviews
Cascade Labs
Founded: 2019
Subsectors: Onboarding Verification (AML/KYC/CDD), Reporting, Identification/Background Checks, Compliance Management
Regions of Operation: EU, UK, Africa, United States
Serves: Asset managers, law firms, investment funds
What it does: Cascade addresses several core challenges in the AML/KYC process. It resolves the lack of a unified digital registry by creating a structured database of clients and their relationships, which enhances visibility and reduces data handling complexities. Cascade also simplifies name screening and standardises AML procedures to minimise execution inconsistencies. By implementing a risk-based approach within a single, streamlined tool, it reduces reporting burdens and provides a real-time, comprehensive view of each client file—optimising compliance workflows and accuracy across financial sector operations.
Key features:
- Client data centralisation
- Embedded new screening
- Complete AML/KYC framework
ComplyAdvantage
Founded: 2014
Subsectors: FinCrime intelligence, Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Customer Screening
Regions of Operations: APAC, Europe, North America
Who does it serve: Financial services, Insurers, Payments & e-commerce platforms
What it does:
ComplyAdvantage’s mission is to empower every business to eliminate financial crime. By harnessing AI, a unified platform, and an extensive partner ecosystem, the firm helps customers turn compliance into a catalyst for growth, operational resilience, and enduring regulatory trust.
More than 3,000 enterprises across 75 countries rely on its end-to-end platform and the world’s most comprehensive financial crime risk intelligence. With full-stack agentic automation, ComplyAdvantage helps organisations automate up to 95% of KYC, AML, and sanctions reviews, cut onboarding times by 50%, reduce false positives by 70%, and handle 7x more work with the same staff.
Key features:
- AI-driven global risk data
- transaction & payment monitoring
- automated customer screening & ongoing monitoring
Vixio 
Founded: 2006
Subsectors: Compliance Management, Reporting, Regulatory Intelligence
Regions of Operations: Global
Who does it serve: financial services, gambling & iGaming operators and suppliers, regulators and legal professionals
What it does: Vixio provides a regulatory intelligence and change management platform that enables organisations in financial services and gambling to monitor, interpret, and respond to evolving global regulation with confidence and speed. The platform combines expert-led analysis, structured insights, and automated workflows to streamline compliance decision-making and execution across more than 200 jurisdictions.
Vixio enables teams to identify upcoming requirements, prioritise actions, coordinate responses, and support strategic expansion into new markets. By transforming regulatory change from a reactive task into a strategic capability, Vixio enhances efficiency, clarity, and competitive positioning, helping compliance become an accelerator instead of a constraint.
Key features:
- horizon scanning
- workflow management
- regulatory library
Flagright
Founded: 2021
Subsectors: Transaction Monitoring, Risk Management, Compliance Management, Communications Monitoring, Onboarding Verification (AML/KYC/CDD), Reporting
Regions of Operations: Global
Who does it serve: banks, credit unions, payment processors
What it does: Flagright is an AI-native AML compliance and risk management platform that helps financial institutions combat financial crime. The no-code platform leverages advanced algorithms and LLMs to optimise transaction monitoring, risk scoring, and AML screening, reducing false positives by 90% and alert investigation time by 80%.
Rated #1 globally on G2 in transaction monitoring and time-to-value in 2024, Flagright integrates rapidly, with customers going live in just two weeks, and achieves ROI within 2.4 months on average. Headquartered in Singapore, it supports clients across six continents.
Key features:
- no-code configurability
- AI-native
- centralised operations
StarCompliance 
Founded: 1999
Subsectors: Enterprise Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance Management, Conduct Risk
Regions of Operations: APAC, North America, Europe
Who does it serve: investment banks, asset managers, broker-dealers
What it does: StarCompliance is a leading provider of employee compliance technology solutions. Trusted globally by forward-thinking companies in 114 countries, Star’s future-ready compliance platform delivers on-demand configurability, multi-jurisdictional integrity, and the actionable intelligence needed to monitor for conflicts, meet regulatory obligations and reduce risk.
Key features:
- global compliance
- system integrations and visibility
- automated
Label 
Founded: 2022
Subsectors: FATCA compliance, CRS compliance, tax reporting, regulatory reporting automation, AML, KYC, regulatory data validation and audit readiness
Regions of Operations: Panama, United States, Europe and Dubai
Who does it serve: banks, asset managers, regulated service providers
What it does: Label is a specialised software company dedicated to delivering cutting-edge compliance solutions for automating FATCA & CRS reporting. The company was founded by a multidisciplinary team of C-level executives, lawyers, and engineers with deep expertise in international tax and software engineering. The firm’s solutions evolve with regulatory demands, offering continuous feature updates and flexible customization
Key features:
- automated compliance workflows
- real-time monitoring & reporting dashboards
- customizable & scalable SaaS platform
Napier AI
Founded: 2015
Subsectors: Risk Assessment, Transaction Monitoring, Anti Money Laundering, Sanctions Screening
Regions of Operations: Global
Who does it serve: wealth managers, banks, payment service providers
What it does: Napier AI is a specialist in financial crime compliance technology, dedicated to assisting institutions in combating financial crime with greater efficiency and effectiveness. Established in 2015, the company leverages extensive experience and expertise to develop advanced compliance technology. This technology aids companies across various sectors in adhering to anti-money laundering regulations, detecting suspicious transactions, screening potential customers and business partners, and enabling analysts to predict customer behaviour.
Napier AI’s award-winning suite of solutions includes tools for transaction monitoring, screening, and risk assessment, all of which integrate seamlessly with an organisation’s third-party and proprietary applications.
Key features:
- single unified compliance platform
- client screening
- transaction monitoring
Hawk 
Founded: 2018
Subsectors: AML, Anti Money Laundering, RegTech, AI, FinTech, Crypto, Scalable compliance, SaaS, Self-Learning systems, Machine Learning, and Compliance
Regions of Operations: Europe
Who does it serve: payment service providers, banks, credit unions
What it does: Hawk provides award-winning Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Financing of Terrorism (CFT) technology powered by explainable AI, helping banks and payment companies detect financial crime, reduce false positives, and improve compliance efficiency through a modular platform that integrates transaction monitoring, payment screening, perpetual KYC, and fraud prevention.
Key features:
- transaction monitoring
- pKYC
- payment screening
RelyComply
Founded: 2019
Subsectors: IDV & User verification, Customer Screening, Customer Risk Assessment, Document verification, Adverse Media, Transaction Monitoring
Regions of Operations: Global
Who does it serve: banks, insurers, financial institutions
What it does: RelyComply is a single platform committed to combating financial crime. They harness the power of artificial intelligence and cutting-edge machine learning techniques to give fintechs, banks, and financial companies the flexibility and efficiency they need, exactly where they need it, to automate KYC/AML processes.
As criminals exploit the many loopholes made available through rapidly developing technologies (such as cybercrime threats from digital wallets, online payment systems, shell companies, and offshore accounts), global and local regulatory bodies are clamping down on misconduct related to financial crime requirements.
It has never been a more pressing time to easily integrate RelyComply’s solution to tackle heightened money laundering, trafficking, and affiliated crimes. Relycomply are your partner in an ever-changing world, balancing the cost of compliance while reducing false positives, mitigating regulatory risk, and increasing client onboarding rates.
Key features:
- detailed investigation capabilities
- single KYC/AML platform
- cuts manual inefficiencies
Vivox.ai 
Founded: 2024
Subsectors: compliance, AI, AI Agents, KYB, KYC, AML, Automated Due Diligence, Explainable AI Compliance, End-to-End Compliance, and Risk Management
Regions of Operations: UK
Who does it serve: banks, FinTechs, compliance teams
What it does: Vivox delivers AI agents designed to support financial crime compliance teams. Our pre-trained AI agents automate manual, repetitive tasks traditionally handled by Level 1 analysts.
These agents streamline key compliance functions such as AML, adverse media monitoring, sanctions screening alert reviews, KYC/KYB onboarding, and periodic reviews. Vivox’s AI solutions provide auditable, traceable results, ensuring compliance teams are always ready for audits.
By automating up to 90% of manual work, Vivox helps companies and businesses onboard more good users, while significantly reducing operational costs and risks, and enhance compliance efficiency by up to 80%.
Key features:
- AI-powered compliance automation
- global corporate registry intelligence
- adverse media & sanctions screening
As financial crime grows more complex and harder to detect, the future of AML depends on innovation that goes beyond compliance checklists. Organisations must shift from reactive to proactive, from fragmented tools to integrated platforms, and from manual reviews to intelligent automation.
The solutions highlighted in this article represent the cutting edge of that transformation. Whether through AI-powered anomaly detection, cloud-native compliance workflows, or collaborative data sharing, these companies are reshaping the landscape of financial crime prevention.
For financial institutions, embracing these technologies is not just about staying compliant—it’s about staying ahead.
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