ComplyAdvantage

ComplyAdvantage is a London-based financial crime risk data and screening company founded in 2014 by Charles Delingpole, with further offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. It builds and maintains its own database of sanctions, watchlists, politically exposed persons and adverse media, and sells it together with the software banks and payment firms use to screen customers and payments against it.

The Mesh platform bundles customer screening, company screening, ongoing monitoring, transaction monitoring and payment screening on a shared risk data layer, with case management, risk scoring, dashboards and APIs. Agentic workflows automate routine alert handling: the company states that 65-85 percent of profiles can be processed without human intervention, that sanctions and PEP changes are ingested in under a minute, and that 23 million entities are linked to expose hidden relationships. Named customers include Santander, CIMB, Allianz, Nissan Financial Services, AJ Bell, BigPay and Plaid. Investors include Goldman Sachs, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures and Balderton Capital.

1. Proprietary risk data: sanctions, watchlists, PEPs and relatives, and adverse media maintained in-house.

2. Mesh platform: customer, company and payment screening plus transaction monitoring on one risk data layer.

3. Update speed: the company states sanctions and PEP changes are ingested in under a minute.

4. Agentic workflows: 65-85 percent of profiles processed without an analyst, with an audit trail retained.

5. Entity linking: 23 million entities connected to surface relationships behind individual matches.

6. Deployment: APIs and case management used by banks, payment firms and insurers including Santander and CIMB.