Identify Risk at Every Point in the Supply Chain
Trade-based money laundering costs the global economy hundreds of billions annually. AML Watcher gives importers, exporters, freight forwarders, customs brokers and trade finance providers the screening infrastructure to detect it before it moves.
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Trade Is the World's Largest Money Laundering Channel.
The FATF estimates that trade-based money laundering is one of the most complex and underdetected forms of financial crime. Supply chains touch dozens of counterparties, jurisdictions and financial intermediaries, every one of them a potential exposure point.
Multi-Party Exposure Across Every Shipment
A single trade transaction involves importers, exporters, freight forwarders, carriers, banks and agents. Any one of them can be a sanctioned entity or a PEP, and most screening systems check only the primary counterparty.
Speed of Trade vs Depth of Screening
Commercial deadlines leave little margin for compliance delays. Freight forwarders, customs brokers and trade finance providers need screening results in seconds, without sacrificing the coverage depth that regulators now expect.
Sanctions Evasion Through Third Countries
Sanctioned entities often use intermediaries and trade routes that obscure shipment origin and destination. Standard screening alone may miss these risks without broader network visibility.
The Blind Spots That Create Regulatory Exposure
Trade compliance teams that rely on single-layer counterparty checks are leaving the most significant exposure points unscreened.
Vessel and Flag State Gaps
Most AML screening platforms do not cover vessels. Ships, their owners, operators and flag states are all potential sanctions vectors, particularly in oil, gas and metals trades, yet they go unscreened in the majority of freight compliance workflows.
Hidden Risk in Trade Chains
Free zone entities and layered corporate structures move through trade flows without triggering alerts. Without cross-dataset intelligence and network-level risk detection, suspicious connections and exposure to financial crime can remain undetected.
High False Positive Rates on Transliterated Names
Arabic, Chinese and Cyrillic name transliteration generates disproportionately high false positive rates in legacy systems. Trade teams screening counterparties in MENA, Central Asia and East Asia spend excessive time on non-matches while genuine risks pass through.
No Adverse Media in Trade Screening
Sanctions lists lag real-world events by weeks or months. Counterparties involved in commodity fraud, dual-use goods violations or corruption surface in news sources long before a formal designation, and trade teams with no adverse media layer miss the early signal entirely.
One Platform Across the Entire Supply Chain
AML Watcher is configured to the specific screening requirements of each trade function, from pre-shipment counterparty checks to letter of credit payment screening.
Know Every Counterparty Before the Contract Is Signed
Importers and exporters bear direct regulatory responsibility for the entities they trade with, particularly on dual-use goods and exports to high-risk jurisdictions. AML Watcher screens every counterparty across sanctions, PEP, adverse media and beneficial ownership simultaneously, before commitment is made.
- Sanctions screening across 215+ regimes including secondary sanctions exposure
- PEP and RCA identification for all four FATF levels
- Adverse media in 80+ languages to flag pre-designation risk signals
Screen Vessel, Operator and Route, Not Just Shipper
Freight forwarders face risk across the entire shipment chain. AML Watcher screens ships, aircraft, vehicles, and all counterparties against sanctions lists, ensuring comprehensive shipment screening.
- Vessel screening: ships, aircraft, vehicles against sanctions and watchlists
- Operator and beneficial owner identification for carriers
- Route risk assessment for high-risk port calls and flag states
- Shipper, consignee and notify party screening in a single workflow
Screen Every Party on the Declaration
AML Watcher screens importers, exporters, freight agents, and other declared parties simultaneously, providing structured results for each entity rather than a single aggregated risk score.
- Multi-party screening across all declaration roles in a single submission
- BIS Entity List, OFAC, EU and UK sanctions in one workflow
- PEP screening for directors and beneficial owners of all parties
- Structured per-entity results with clear flag reason and source
Assess Every Deal Dimension Before Committing Capital
Commodity traders face compounded risk across every transaction, the seller, the buyer, the destination, the cargo type and the vessel all carry independent exposure. AML Watcher brings all of these into a single due diligence view, so traders and their compliance teams can assess the full picture before a deal is confirmed.
- Seller and buyer screening across sanctions, PEP and adverse media
- Destination jurisdiction risk assessment against sanctions regimes
- Vessel and carrier screening for high-risk maritime routes
Screen Every Party in the Credit Before the Payment Moves
Trade finance providers must screen the applicant, beneficiary, issuing bank, advising bank and freight agent, not just the primary payment instruction. AML Watcher's payment screening and counterparty checks run across all LC parties simultaneously, with auto-clearance for clean transactions so compliance teams focus only on genuine risk.
- Pre-payment screening of all LC and documentary collection parties
- Real-time beneficiary screening against 215+ sanction regimes
- Auto-clearance workflow for low-risk transactions
- Transaction monitoring for correspondent banking and SWIFT payment flows
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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AML Watcher is built to satisfy the sanctions, export control and AML obligations that apply across trade, freight and trade finance operations worldwide.
OFAC SDN & Secondary Sanctions
Real-time SDN screening with secondary sanctions coverage, identifying counterparties linked to sanctioned entities, including non-U.S. parties exposed to secondary sanctions risks.
EU & UK Sanctions Regulations
Full coverage of EU restrictive measures and UK OFSI financial sanctions, including the Russia, Belarus, Iran, North Korea and Myanmar regimes most relevant to global trade flows.
UN Security Council Measures
Consolidated UN sanctions list coverage across all active regimes, including arms embargoes and shipping restrictions relevant to maritime freight screening.
FATF Trade-Based Money Laundering
Screening aligned with FATF TBML guidance, covering counterparty due diligence, beneficial ownership verification, and adverse media monitoring to detect early risk indicators.
BIS Export Administration Regulations
Entity list and denied parties screening for dual-use goods and technology exports, ensuring exporters and customs brokers can identify restricted counterparties before shipment.
Wolfsberg Trade Finance Principles
Counterparty screening and beneficial ownership due diligence aligned with Wolfsberg Group guidance for trade finance and open account transactions.
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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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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