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AML Compliance for Fintech: Risks, Rules & Best Practices
Why anti-money laundering controls are essential for payments, lending, and neobanking platforms.
Sanctions · PEP · Adverse media · Criminal watchlists · Risk intelligence
Screen anyone against 8,000+ official sources in milliseconds
Free, instant AML screening across sanctions, PEP and criminal watchlists in 190+ jurisdictions. No signup, no card, no waiting room.
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1.5M+ records · 8,000+ sources · 190+ jurisdictions ·refreshed multiple times daily
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One platform, five ways to screen
Pick the product that fits your stack. All products share the same source coverage, updates and compliance guarantees.
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AML Screening API
Real-time REST API to screen against 8,000+ global sanctions, PEP and adverse media sources with sub-150ms response.
Ongoing Monitoring
Continuous re-screening of your customer base with instant alerts when sanctions or PEP status changes.
AML Database
Download the consolidated database and run sanctions, PEP and criminal checks on-premise — without sharing customer names externally.
Adverse Media API
NLP-powered real-time adverse media screening — surface negative coverage tied to individuals and entities for due diligence.
No developers? No problem.
Screen thousands of names against the full database directly from an Excel file — no API integration, no engineering time.
Our team can walk you through coverage, pricing, and integration paths in a 30-minute call.
The comprehensive compliance solution that adapts to your business
Sanctions screening, PEP identification, criminal checks and adverse media monitoring now run end-to-end through the customer life-cycle — at onboarding, during KYC, on every relevant transaction, at periodic rescreening, and as ongoing monitoring for status changes. Regulators expect a defensible AML/CFT programme at each step, and the cost of handling false positives and stitching disparate data sources keeps creeping into margin that should be funding growth.
dilisense gives you bespoke tooling that respects your existing processes. Pick the integration path that fits — and switch later without re-onboarding the data:
- Real-time API for automated sanctions and PEP screening
- Excel batch tool for periodic reviews
- On-premise database for data-privacy-first stacks
Talk to our team today — pricing is transparent, integration is fast, and every plan includes a free trial.
A REST API built for developers, not just compliance teams
A well-documented, developer-friendly REST API gives teams the clarity they need to ship sanctions, PEP and adverse media checks confidently and fast. SDKs and Postman collections make it simple to explore endpoints, test requests, and integrate into onboarding, transaction monitoring and rescreening workflows. Detailed examples, error-handling guidelines and sandbox environments reduce onboarding time for your engineers.
Open documentation→Tune sources, thresholds and identifiers to your risk appetite
Screen against the watchlists that matter to you. By selecting only relevant sanction, PEP, criminal and adverse media lists, teams cut false positives and focus on real risk. Configure risk thresholds to match your AML/CFT policy, and use secondary identifiers like date of birth or citizenship to refine fuzzy matching and tell apart individuals with similar names.
Build a defensible audit trail from structured responses
Detailed, structured API responses let you build a complete audit trail on your side. By logging responses, organisations create transparent records of every screening action — sanctions checks at onboarding, PEP hits at transaction time, adverse media alerts from ongoing monitoring. Every key data point stays preserved and accessible, so when regulators or auditors request evidence your team can produce reports directly from your own logs.
Built for compliance teams who need to move quickly
Four pillars in one database
Sanctions, PEP, criminal and adverse media — the four data pillars of AML in a single consolidated source. Pick the lists that match your programme to cut false positives and duplicates.
Free, non-binding trial
Every product offers a free trial so compliance and engineering teams can test the service, run a pilot, and convince stakeholders before any integration work begins.
Transparent pricing
Pay only for what you use on low volumes. On higher screening volumes, significant discounts apply based on your industry, jurisdiction and maturity — no setup fees, no hidden costs.
1.5M+ records, daily updated
A continuously growing database of consolidated sanction, PEP, criminal and adverse media records — refreshed multiple times per day so your checks always reflect the latest official state.
8,000+ official sources
Government, regulator and company sources from more than 190 jurisdictions, transparently linked and traceable to their origin — the audit trail regulators and auditors expect.
150ms average API response
Low-latency infrastructure tuned for real-time screening at onboarding, payment time and ongoing monitoring — no perceptible delay for your customers.
Get started in three simple steps
Get your free API key
Request a free API key — connected to our free quota and shipped with a ready-to-use Postman collection. Evaluate the sanctions, PEP and adverse media coverage before any costs are incurred.
Integrate the API
Once you have decided on dilisense, drop the REST API into your onboarding, transaction-monitoring or rescreening flow. We provide all the documentation and direct engineer support your team needs.
Start screening
Screen individuals and entities against sanction, PEP, criminal and adverse media lists in line with your AML/CFT policy. Decide which lists to include, use fuzzy or exact search, and dial in your false-positive threshold.
Insights
Insights from our compliance team
Deep dives, regulatory primers and field notes on sanctions, PEPs and adverse media — written by the team that builds the data.
Frequently asked questions
dilisense consolidates global sanctions, PEP, criminal and adverse media sources into a single, continuously updated database. It supports the four core compliance checks — sanctions screening, PEP identification, criminal screening and adverse media monitoring — that sit at the heart of any AML/CFT programme. You can run them via a free web search, our REST API, our Excel batch tool, or by downloading the database for on-premise use.
Yes. Sanctions, PEP and criminal checks via our web search are free to use without registration. Paid plans unlock API access, higher volumes, advanced filtering, ongoing monitoring and adverse media screening. See our pricing plans for details.
dilisense covers 8,000+ sources including OFAC, EU Council, UN Security Council, UK HMT, SECO and World Bank, plus 130+ additional government and company sources for PEPs, criminals and adverse media. The full overview lives at dilisense.com/en/sources.
All integrated sources are refreshed multiple times per day, so your sanctions, PEP and adverse media screenings always reflect the latest official state — critical for ongoing monitoring and risk-based compliance programmes.
Our REST API returns JSON for highly automated processing — drop it into onboarding, transaction-time screening, periodic rescreening, or ongoing monitoring. It ships with a Postman collection and full developer documentation at developers.dilisense.com.
Our team can walk you through coverage, pricing, and integration paths in a 30-minute call.