Financial Crime and Compliance50 winners
#5 - Nasdaq Verafin
Nasdaq Verafin provides cloud-based Financial Crime Management Technology solutions for Fraud Detection, AML/CFT Compliance, High-Risk Customer Management, Sanctions Screening and Management, and Information Sharing. More than 2,750 financial institutions globally, representing $11T in collective assets, use Nasdaq Verafin to prevent fraud and strengthen AML/CFT efforts. Leveraging our unique consortium data approach in targeted analytics with artificial intelligence and machine learning, Nasdaq Verafin significantly reduces false positive alerts and delivers context-rich insights to fight financial crime more efficiently and effectively.
To learn how Nasdaq Verafin can help your institution fight fraud and money laundering visit www.verafin.com or call 1-877-368-9986.
#16 - MOZN
MOZN is an Enterprise AI company. We enable organizations to make informed decisions through specialized AI-native platforms, focused on two key areas:
1. Financial Crime Prevention: With the rapid digitization of financial ecosystems, criminals are moving faster than ever, exploiting blind spots left by siloed legacy systems. As regulations tighten and financial crimes become more sophisticated, financial institutions face growing risks of non-compliance, reputational damage, and financial losses. FOCAL by MOZN is an AI-native platform that redefines how organizations fight financial crime. FOCAL uses advanced machine learning and agentic AI to adapt to evolving risks, accelerate financial crime prevention, and automate compliance, enabling businesses to outsmart financial criminals with unmatched speed, intelligence, and resilience.
2. Enterprise Knowledge Intelligence: Enterprise knowledge is often trapped, locked in silos, buried in documents, or scattered across outdated tools. As a result, teams spend valuable time searching, second‑guessing, and rebuilding what others already know. When people leave, critical know‑how. Without a way to capture and preserve their collective intelligence, organizations risk slowing down and losing valuable insights as they grow. OSOS by MOZN addresses these challenges by enhancing enterprise intelligence through an AI‑native platform that transforms how organizations access, understand, and use their knowledge. Powered by Generative AI, OSOS enables teams to “talk” naturally with enterprise data, asking questions, exploring insights, and acting on knowledge instantly. By connecting people, systems, and workflows, OSOS turns fragmented information into a reliable, living knowledge network that empowers faster collaboration, smarter decisions, and stronger innovation.
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#21 - Oscilar
Oscilar is the AI Risk Decisioning™ platform that unifies fraud, credit, onboarding and AML risk in a single, real-time system.
Its no-code architecture empowers risk teams with full ownership of workflows, enabling them to build, test and automate policies without engineering dependency. Powered by agentic AI and bespoke machine-learning models, Oscilar connects signals across the entire customer journey to detect sophisticated threats that rule-based systems miss, delivering fully explainable decisions in under 100 milliseconds. Leading banks, fintechs and digital asset platforms rely on Oscilar to move faster than risk with the control and transparency regulators require.
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#35 - Unit21
Unit21 is redefining the financial crime landscape as the pioneer of AI Risk Infrastructure. Originally the first to market with a no-code platform that decoupled risk and compliance logic from engineering resources, Unit21 has evolved to become the first to deliver agentic AI that doesn’t just assist analysts—it executes the work for them. While traditional systems generate noise, Unit21’s platform is built to resolve it by managing the full financial crime lifecycle end-to-end, from detection and investigation to regulatory filing.
Recognized in the Chartis FCC 50 and distinguished with the Innovation Award for GenAI Summarization, Unit21 is setting the standard for production-grade AI in highly regulated environments. At the core of the platform are AI Agents that autonomously execute investigative workflows: ingesting alerts, pulling transaction histories, and drafting regulator-ready narratives. These agents execute steps that an analyst would, then hand over the results for human review. By performing the work and showing their work through a transparent audit trail, the agents don’t replace human judgment—they empower it.
The impact of this agentic approach is transformative. Underdog has successfully cut alert volume by 72% using AI agents, while Nexo reduced false positives by 57% and is targeting an 80% reduction through the automation of alert reviews. By unifying fraud and AML into a single, connected data model, Unit21 allows sophisticated institutions to scale operations without a linear increase in headcount, turning a traditional operational bottleneck into a driver of safe, rapid growth.
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#50 - FinScan
Trusted by hundreds of organizations worldwide, Innovative Systems, Inc.’s FinScan® provides advanced Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance technology and consulting solutions. Built on decades of experience in data management and proprietary matching technologies, FinScan provides a data-first, risk-based approach to ensure unparalleled accuracy and efficiency in identifying and reducing risk, accelerating AML compliance workflows, and optimizing team productivity.
FinScan screens sanctions, watchlists, PEPs, payments/transactions, and adverse media, and provides customer and counterparty risk scoring and data quality management, with flexible SaaS, on-premises, or hybrid deployment. FinScan SaaS clients screen more than 300 billion names annually, supporting some of the highest-volume, most complex environments in financial services.
Financial institutions face mounting pressure from rapidly evolving sanctions regimes and AML regulatory requirements, ISO 20022 migration, real-time payments mandates, and heightened regulatory scrutiny around governance and explainability. Many organizations also struggle with fragmented data, excessive false positives, manual investigations, and legacy tools that cannot scale with modern transaction volumes.
FinScan addresses these challenges at their source. Its proprietary cognitive matching and entity resolution technology improves precision and reduces noise, while embedded data quality analytics clean and standardize information before screening. This enables faster, more accurate decision-making and defensible audit trails that satisfy regulators.
With FinScan, institutions report 50-85% fewer false positives, 90% faster reviews, and 99% straight-through processing. Organizations screening 200+ million transactions daily achieve ~200ms screening times. Others have reduced alert rates from 36% to 10% and 35% to 8%, while identifying additional confirmed hits missed by legacy systems.
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Market Disruptor - Fivecast
Fivecast solutions are engineered for intelligence, turning digital noise into clarity to uncover threats.
Trusted by intelligence professionals worldwide, Fivecast delivers software that enables teams to solve complex problems with confidence. By revealing patterns, relationships, and emerging threats earlier, Fivecast transforms complexity into clear, structured understanding.
Across the surface, deep, and dark web, vast volumes of digital information move constantly. Within that noise are the early signals of risk - fragmented, disconnected, and easy to miss. Fivecast brings those signals into focus.
Built for high‑stakes environments, Fivecast is trusted to support the protection of nations, organisations, and communities. The platform is engineered to reduce risk and uncertainty while supporting - not replacing, human judgement. Security, accountability, and trust are embedded at every layer, ensuring insight that stands up to scrutiny.
Fivecast doesn’t add more information. It delivers clarity when it matters most.
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Market Disruptor - Informed.IQ
Informed.IQ’s AI agents instantly verify income, assets, insurance, auto stipulations, credit stipulations and more – enabling lenders and dealers to clear stipulations with 99% accuracy in seconds, without humans-in-the-loop.
Informed’s AI agents are trained to process hundreds of document types and consumer-permissioned data sources, automating stipulation clearance for lenders. By bridging intelligence across the nation’s largest financial institutions, Informed’s AI agents are uniquely adept at spotting misrepresentation and fraud that cost the auto finance industry billions in early write-offs as GenAI fraud rises. The company has processed over $350 billion in loan originations to date, working with seven of the top ten auto lenders in the U.S. Informed’s AI agents are configured to integrate seamlessly with lender LOS systems, helping streamline underwriting, reduce risk, and speed up funding.
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Market Disruptor (Gold) - Kharon
Kharon is a global leader in risk data and analytics, helping organizations make faster, more informed decisions in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.
Kharon differentiates itself by treating risk as a network problem rather than a single-entity match. Using advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and a human-in-the-loop approach, Kharon transforms multilingual public data into structured, actionable insights. This enables organizations to identify real-world exposure, including indirect connections through ownership, control, and affiliation, rather than relying solely on name-based screening.
Kharon supports critical compliance and risk management needs across sanctions, anti-money laundering, export controls, and complex corporate due diligence. Its analytics uncover illicit networks, detect evasion typologies, and provide a clearer view of exposure across global markets.
Through its ClearView platform, users can search, visualize, and investigate complex networks with full source transparency. GraphCast and API delivery options enable seamless integration into existing screening, onboarding, and risk scoring systems, embedding risk intelligence directly into operational workflows without adding friction.
Founded by former senior U.S. Treasury officials, Kharon is trusted by 35+ Fortune 100 companies, global banks, including 7 of the 10 largest U.S. banks and 6 of the 10 largest EU banks, as well as top accounting firms, leading software companies, and government agencies worldwide.
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Market Disruptor (Gold) - KYC360
Until now, compliance has been a barrier to business - it’s made doing business slower and more difficult by creating friction through clunky processes, siloed data and human error. Compliance has evolved from being a barrier to becoming a major point of difference in how businesses accelerate time to revenue and enhance customer experience.
At KYC360 we believe that customer onboarding, screening and customer lifecycle management (CLM) should be done at the speed of business.
Our end-to-end SaaS Platform delivers an automated, integrated approach to Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance. From creating the right first impression with rapid, risk-based onboarding to award-winning screening, live risk scoring and automated data collection, our platform enables our customers to achieve significant operational efficiency gains.
Established by the original founder of the International Compliance Association, KYC360’s award winning solutions are trusted by over 1000 organizations across more than 100 countries.
Transform your KYC with Straight Through Processing (STP) and streamline compliance whilst elevating customer experience and enhancing risk management.
KYC360 is a part of Experian, a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world.
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Market Disruptor - Neotas
Neotas is an AI‑driven risk intelligence company specialising in enhanced due diligence (EDD) and third‑party risk management (TPRM). The platform uncovers behavioural, reputational, and integrity risks that traditional screening tools often miss, giving organisations a deeper understanding of the people and entities they work with.
Built as a modular, no‑code, API‑first solution, Neotas brings together advanced open-source intelligence (OSINT), premium regulatory data, and configurable risk models to deliver continuous, automation-ready risk insight. It integrates seamlessly with existing GRC, procurement, AML, ERP, and CRM systems, acting as a unified intelligence layer that strengthens enterprise-wide risk programs without adding complexity or disruption.
Neotas automates repetitive investigative steps while providing the depth, transparency, and auditability required by risk, compliance, and procurement teams. Every finding is fully sourced, traceable, and defensible, supporting confident decision‑making across TPRM, ESG, KYC, and workforce screening.
At its core, Neotas is built on the belief that risk management must be scalable, unified, and defensible. The platform is designed to adapt to each organisation’s existing processes, not the other way around, enabling teams to manage high volumes of assessments with consistency, clarity, and investigative‑grade intelligence.
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Market Disruptor - Netlive
Netlive IT AG is a Swiss RegTech company specializing in technology‑driven solutions for financial compliance and risk intelligence. The company develops advanced software and data services that enable financial institutions to identify high‑risk relationships, transactions, and reputational threats earlier and more efficiently.
A core offering of Netlive is MediaScan, an adverse media intelligence service that supports AML, KYC, and reputational risk management. MediaScan continuously analyzes global news and publicly available media sources using artificial intelligence combined with human editorial validation. Relevant insights are extracted and structured into entity‑centric profiles of individuals and organizations linked to potential risk events such as fraud, corruption, money laundering, or sanctions violations.
Unlike traditional list providers, MediaScan focuses on the early detection of emerging risk signals — including investigative reporting, allegations, and developing cases that may not yet appear on official watchlists or sanctions databases. This enables financial institutions to identify potential issues proactively and incorporate them into risk‑based compliance processes, such as customer due diligence and ongoing monitoring.
MediaScan functions as an intelligence layer integrated within existing compliance platforms, allowing institutions to embed adverse media insights into their established screening, monitoring, and case management workflows — while maintaining full control and governance within their compliance environments.
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Market Disruptor - NOTO
NOTO is an Enterprise Fraud Management Platform engineered around the structural and data similarities of financial crime risk.
NOTO’s modular financial crime prevention platform unifies fraud prevention and AML compliance in a single, enterprise-grade solution. Built to consolidate data across the customer and transaction lifecycle, NOTO delivers real-time monitoring, centralized risk insights, and alerts that help teams detect threats early and act fast.
At the core is a decision engine that combines expert rules and machine learning, with configurable workflows for investigations, case management, and reporting. NOTO is data-agnostic and designed for seamless integration, helping organizations scale controls across products, geographies, and channels without fragmenting their financial crime stack.
NOTO supports banks, fintechs, payments, crypto, and online gaming operators that need a measurable reduction in fraud losses and manual overhead while meeting evolving compliance expectations. With a pragmatic approach to AI, using ML for explainable, real-time prevention and applying AI to accelerate investigations and analyst productivity, NOTO helps risk teams stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated attacks.
One platform. Multiple verticals. Any environment.
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2026 Winners
The complete ranking and list of award winners for Financial Crime and Compliance50 (FCC50) 2026.