Protecting Market Integrity Across Securities and Capital Markets
Securities markets face rising risks from cross-border crime and market abuse. AML Watcher helps regulators strengthen surveillance, improve detection, and enforce AML compliance.
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Capital Markets Face Evolving Financial Crime. Most Screening Systems Have Not Kept Up.
Securities commissions are expected to detect market manipulation, sanction-linked trading, and other financial crime risks in real time across thousands of regulated entities and millions of transactions.
Sanction Evasion Through Capital Markets
Sanctioned individuals and entities increasingly use broker networks and investment structures to access capital markets. Standard screening processes often miss indirect links and layered arrangements that conceal market access.
High-Risk Entities at Point of Licensing
Applicants for securities licenses often use complex structures to mask sanctions exposure, PEP links, or adverse media risk. Without robust screening intelligence, high-risk entities can enter regulated markets undetected.
Enforcement Evidence That Cannot Be Sustained
Enforcement actions launched on the basis of incomplete or poorly documented screening evidence fail. Regulators need structured, auditable intelligence, not just a flag, that can support legal proceedings and withstand judicial scrutiny.
Gaps That Undermine Market Credibility
Securities commissions operating with inadequate screening infrastructure face legal exposure, reputational damage, and FATF mutual evaluation findings they cannot defend.
PEP Coverage That Stops at Level 2
Most legacy systems identify heads of state and senior ministers but miss Level 3 and Level 4 PEPs, regional officials, councillors, judicial appointments, who hold meaningful influence over capital markets in many jurisdictions and present clear conflict-of-interest exposure in licensing and trading activities.
No Access to International Leaks Intelligence
The Panama Papers, Pandora Papers, and FinCEN Files reveal extensive ownership structures that are not captured in standard watchlists. Securities commissions relying solely on watchlist screening may approve and supervise entities whose underlying links are documented in public leak datasets that are not routinely screened.
False Positive Rates That Exhaust Compliance Teams
Name-matching systems that generate high false positive rates consume the analyst capacity that should be directed at genuine risk. Teams reviewing hundreds of false alerts daily miss the confirmed exposures buried in the noise, a compliance failure that regulators, not just regulated entities, must now answer for.
Adverse Media Blind to Non-English Sources
Cross-listed securities, foreign broker applicants and internationally active fund managers generate risk reporting in dozens of languages. Adverse media systems limited to English-language sources provide a false picture of clean status for entities actively reported on in Arabic, Mandarin, Russian, Portuguese or Farsi press.
Screening Intelligence Calibrated to Securities Commission Functions
Each division within a securities commission has distinct screening requirements, risk tolerances and output formats. AML Watcher is configured to serve all of them from a single platform.
Continuous Risk Visibility Across Market Participants
Market surveillance divisions need a live, prioritised view of risk across all regulated entities, broker-dealers, fund managers, market operators and listed securities. AML Watcher's ongoing monitoring layer flags risk profile changes the moment they occur, so surveillance teams act on real signals rather than aged data.
- Real-time sanctions and watchlist monitoring across 235+ jurisdictions
- Adverse media NLP across 50,000+ sources in 80+ languages
- TruRisk AI separates genuine flags from name-coincidence noise
- Custom risk-scoring models calibrated to securities sector mandates
Build Cases With Evidence That Withstands Legal Scrutiny
Enforcement actions often fail due to incomplete or poorly documented intelligence. AML Watcher’s TruRisk Agent delivers structured, auditable evidence across PEP, sanctions, watchlists, and adverse media, with clear explainability for every confirmed match.
- Simultaneous cross-database matching with full explainability output
- International leaks database: Panama Papers, Pandora Papers, FinCEN Files
- Secondary sanctions exposure and multi-hop entity linkage mapping
- Structured case management workflow with complete audit trail
Benchmark Entities Against AML Standards
AML supervisory divisions within securities commissions must ensure regulated entities apply adequate customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, and screening. AML Watcher helps build a multi-dimensional risk profile for each entity and identify AML gaps before they become enforcement findings.
- Configurable risk scoring across CDD, sanctions, PEP and adverse media dimensions
- 150+ transaction monitoring typologies along with 10K+ customizable rules to align with regulatory expectations
- Ongoing monitoring with automatic alerts on risk profile changes
- Full audit trail to support supervisory examination documentation
Screen every applicant, director and corporate entity
Securities licence applicants, including broker-dealers, fund managers, investment advisors, and market operators, must be screened as entities and through their controlling individuals. AML Watcher’s batch screening enables high-volume processing without compromising depth.
- Batch search: screen large applicant lists simultaneously
- TruRisk explainable AI: audit-ready judgements for every licence case
- All four FATF PEP levels including RCA and AKA coverage
- Biometric face-matching verification for identity confirmation
Maintain Market Integrity Across Member Universe
AML Watcher helps supervisors assess firms and key stakeholders through unified screening, risk scoring, and continuous monitoring, enabling early detection of AML risks and compliance gaps.
- Continuous re-screening of all licensed exchange members
- Crypto wallet screening and Travel Rule compliance for VASP members
- Risk intelligence from international leaks and adverse media screening
Broader Coverage. Better Accuracy. Lower Cost.
AML Watcher is built around a single principle: no securities commission should have to choose between comprehensive coverage and operational cost. Our in-house database delivers both.
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Worldwide Regulatory Standards
For Securities Commissions
AML Watcher's screening infrastructure maps directly to the obligations that apply to securities market regulators and supervisory authorities under international frameworks.
IOSCO Objectives & Principles
Continuous fitness and propriety screening of market intermediaries and operators, supporting IOSCO’s standards for fair, transparent, and investor-focused securities regulation.
FATF Recommendations 12 & 22
Enhanced due diligence on foreign PEPs across all four FATF levels, extended to DNFBPs supported by AML Watcher's proprietary PEP database spanning 235+ jurisdictions including contested regions.
EU 5AMLD / 6AMLD
Expanded PEP definitions, mandatory beneficial ownership register access, and 22 extended predicate offences under 6AMLD all mapped across AML Watcher's securities-sector screening workflows.
OFAC SDN & Secondary Sanctions
Real-time SDN list screening with distinctive secondary sanctions coverage, identifying securities market participants exposed through transactions with directly sanctioned parties, not just direct matches.
UK Money Laundering Regulations 2017
PEP, sanctions and adverse media screening at the depth required for FCA-aligned supervisory reviews of UK-authorised securities firms and market infrastructure providers.
FATF Travel Rule (Rec. 16)
VASP screening and FATF Travel Rule compliance tools for securities commissions overseeing crypto asset service providers and digital asset exchanges under their supervisory mandate.
Why Choose AML Watcher?
We are continuously making our data better. Our team of researchers keeps on adding new data sources, cleaning the data for clarity, and enhancing structures for accuracy.
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Our data refreshes 88% faster, ensuring real-time access to critical insights.
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Save time with 44% fewer false positives compared to traditional solutions.
What People Say About It
Navigating through adverse media sources often chaotic and overwhelming content can be challenging. Still, AML Watcher's proprietary biometric data matching capabilities can achieve complete accuracy and filter out false positives.
Anti Money Laundering Officer
AML Watcher maintains such features as 1300 plus diverse watch-list databases, over 200 comprehensive sanction regimes, 235 plus countries while ensuring comprehensive coverage, over 5000 reputed and reliable media sources with global coverage, 80 plus languages enabling multilingual reach, and finally over 100,000 unique reliable data sources.
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AML Watcher's vision is to create a simple solution with as little operator activity as possible, which can improve the defense against money laundering and reduce the impact of money laundering.
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