is your whole budget
Anything slower than the rail is a control you do not actually have.
Check every payment, be aware of each merchant, and detect fraud and money laundering on the same record, at the speed at which your rails operate.
Payments are settled in seconds and in large volumes, which means that screening and monitoring have to be carried out as part of the process, not afterward. Most providers begin with payment screening and merchant onboarding before adding monitoring and fraud detection onto the same record.
Both parties, inside the payment window.
See the productBehavioural signals on the same customer record.
See the productCounterparties stay in scope after the payment clears.
See the productHolds and releases with reason codes.
See the productPayment providers have the same anti-money laundering and sanctions responsibilities as banks, even though they usually have smaller teams and handle much higher volumes. Fraud and laundering use the same accounts, the same mules, and the same merchants. When these operations are managed in separate systems, analysts are only able to see half the story, twice over.
Anything slower than the rail is a control you do not actually have.
There is no overnight batch to hide reconciliation in.
The same payment gets scored twice, on two systems, with two answers.
Business customers are resolved to owners and directors, individuals are verified and screened, and a risk score is set before the first payment.
Payer and payee screened in real time, fraud signals scored in the same decision, and clear payments released without a queue.
Monitoring looks across accounts, wallets, and merchants for mule networks, structuring, and unusual flows. AI links related alerts into one case and drafts the summary; the analyst makes the call.
Suspicious activity moves from case to filing with the evidence already attached.
Rules tighten as the rails get faster. Instant payments, cross-border transfers, and scam reimbursement rules all ask providers to decide in real time and prove the decision afterward.
Read the compliance guidesA PSP moved sanctions screening from a post-settlement sweep into the payment call itself, then put fraud and AML signals on one score so the two teams stopped arguing about the same transaction.
Yes. Median screening is around 150 ms, which leaves the rest of the control budget to your own logic. Under instant payment schemes a transfer settles in seconds, so screening has to run inside the payment, not in a queue behind the rail.
The call fails open or closed according to your policy, and the decision is logged either way. An auditor can see not only what happened to each payment but which rule decided it, including in the moments when screening did not respond in time.
Yes, both sides in real time, with fraud signals scored in the same decision. Clear payments are released without a queue, and only those that need judgement are held. The payee side matters because scam proceeds and mule accounts usually sit on the receiving end.
No. Both feed one Fusion score on the same customer record. Fraud and laundering use the same accounts, mules and merchants, and two systems watching them separately each see half the story. The combined score still breaks down into the signals behind it.
The merchant stays in scope after approval, so a change in ownership, business model or volume shows up on the same record instead of at the next review. At onboarding, business customers are resolved to their owners and directors, and a risk score is set before the first payment. Later changes are read against that baseline.
By looking across accounts, wallets and merchants rather than one account at a time. Related alerts are linked into one case, alongside structuring and other unusual flows, and AI drafts the summary before the analyst makes the call. Seen together, a set of small unrelated-looking alerts becomes a network.
Every hold carries a reason code your service team can read without opening the compliance tool. The customer gets an answer on first contact rather than a transfer to compliance. Reason codes describe the status, not the suspicion, so staff can explain a hold without tipping off.
Payment screening and merchant onboarding, because those controls sit in the flow of funds from day one. Monitoring and fraud detection then join on the same record, so the history built at onboarding is already there when the first pattern appears.
The case moves to a draft filing with the evidence already attached. Your team reviews, signs and submits it. Because the draft is built from the case, the narrative, timestamps and supporting documents match what the analyst actually reviewed.
Yes. Send a sample file of payments and see what clears in-window, what is held, and what your current setup would have held. The comparison shows the legitimate payments your current rules stop and the ones that need a closer look.
Send a sample file of payments. We will show you what clears in-window and what your current setup would have held.