ComplyAdvantage, an AI-driven financial crime detection and risk data company, has launched Payment Screening on Mesh, bringing its existing screening capability into its AI-native platform for the first time.
The move integrates payment screening alongside transaction monitoring and customer risk scoring within the Mesh platform, which made its debut last year. The upgrade allows compliance teams to hold suspicious payments for review before they are processed, while remaining connected to the wider compliance lifecycle. Screening is now available across bank, card, remittance, and crypto payment rails at low latency and at scale, without affecting customer experience or creating throughput bottlenecks.
A key feature of the upgraded platform is end-to-end data ownership, whereby ComplyAdvantage controls the full lifecycle from data source to alert. This means sanctions lists can be refreshed within minutes rather than hours. The system also introduces intelligent muting technology, which identifies and suppresses repeated false positives, enabling analysts to redirect attention towards genuine threats. Compliance leaders gain self-service control through a no-code interface, allowing them to adjust match sensitivity and manage internal watchlists without relying on engineering teams — enabling faster responses to requirements from regulators including the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), HM Treasury, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
ComplyAdvantage provides AI-powered financial crime risk data and detection tools to financial institutions. Its Mesh platform is designed as a unified risk ecosystem, offering a single auditable source of truth across compliance functions. Analysts reviewing a payment alert can now access the same customer’s full history across all risk applications in one place, supporting faster and more confident decision-making.
ComplyAdvantage chief product and technology officer Mark Watson said, “When we introduced the Mesh platform last year, our goal was to redefine how compliance teams interact with risk intelligence. By upgrading our payment screening capability to reside natively within this environment, we are giving our customers a strategic advantage. They can now intercept risk at industry-leading speeds with a system that reduces the operational friction and alert fatigue that traditionally hinder business growth.”
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