Napier AI, a financial crime compliance technology provider, has linked its Transaction Screening product with LSEG’s newly launched World-Check On Demand, giving financial institutions the ability to check payments against fresh sanctions intelligence just minutes after it is released.
The Napier AI offering has passed the technology validation stage for the integration. Through an API connection, banks and other financial firms can now run payments against World-Check risk intelligence almost as soon as LSEG’s analysts make it available. Firms can then use this data within screening processes tailored to their own risk appetite, internal policies and chosen data sources.
World-Check On Demand is the latest API-driven version of LSEG’s World-Check service. It provides constantly refreshed, real-time intelligence covering sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEPs), adverse media and enforcement actions, so that organisations can draw on current and accurate information whenever they need it.
Screening large volumes of payments for PEP and adverse media risks often produces a high number of false positives. Napier AI’s Transaction Screening is designed to handle every payment in real time, including checks against World-Check On Demand data, while maintaining accuracy. Firms can also set screening rules according to payment rail and customer risk category, letting them decide which transactions should be validated against World-Check On Demand.
The integration also brings a more detailed and granular data structure, which supports risk-based screening set-ups. Because the data is machine-readable, it can feed into automated and AI-powered workflows, while source information at field level gives firms better visibility over where data originates. As a result, organisations can limit screening to the sources that match their risk appetite.
Napier AI CEO Greg Watson said, “Payments move in milliseconds. Sanctions and compliance checks should not be the reason they slow down. Sanctions lists are changing faster and more frequently than ever. Our customers rely on us to screen payments quickly and accurately, and that demands real-time data, that can be used effectively within automated and AI-enabled compliance workflows.
“By working with LSEG to bring World-Check On Demand into Napier AI NextGen Transaction Screening, we’re helping financial institutions meet regulatory requirements for a truly risk-based approach that reduces over-screening, false positives, and risk exposure through accurate, real-time financial crime intelligence.”
LSEG Risk Intelligence head of product, screening Priya Nallan said, “Effective payment screening depends on institutions having timely access to trusted risk intelligence and the ability to apply it in line with their own risk policies.
“By integrating World-Check On Demand with Napier AI Transaction Screening, we are helping customers access newly published intelligence more quickly and use richer, more granular information within their existing screening workflows. This supports more precise, risk-based screening while keeping institutions in control of their compliance decisions.”
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