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Key Compliance Challenges and Solutions

Compliance teams face rising expectations to detect financial crime accurately, quickly, and defensibly. Transaction volumes are growing, data is more complex, and regulatory scrutiny is increasing. This hub brings together the most common operational challenges in sanctions screening, customer screening, payment screening, transaction monitoring, and audit readiness.

Industry Challenges and Solutions

This section highlights the most common and operationally significant challenges faced by compliance teams across financial crime prevention, including sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, payments compliance, and audit readiness. Each challenge is presented as a short summary to help you quickly identify the issues most relevant to your organisation.

Screening Accuracy and Matching

Challenges that affect how accurately customers, entities, and payments are screened at the point of detection.

Adverse Media Signal To Noise

Adverse media screening has become a core component of AML and financial crime compliance, but it also introduces significant noise. Large volumes of unverified, repetitive, or low-relevance content can overwhelm analysts and obscure genuinely meaningful risk indicators.

Adverse Media Signal To Noise

PEP Screening Noise And Risk Tiering

PEP screening noise is a persistent challenge for AML compliance teams. Politically exposed persons often trigger alerts regardless of their actual risk, creating large volumes of low-value reviews that consume resources and slow decision-making.

PEP Screening Noise And Risk Tiering

False Positives In Sanctions Screening

False positives in sanctions screening remain one of the most persistent and costly challenges in financial crime compliance. They occur when legitimate customers or transactions are incorrectly flagged as potential sanctions matches, forcing compliance teams to investigate activity that poses little or no real risk.

False Positives In Sanctions Screening

Adverse Media Signal To Noise

PEP Screening Noise And Risk Tiering

False Positives In Sanctions Screening

Adverse Media Signal To Noise

PEP Screening Noise And Risk Tiering

False Positives In Sanctions Screening

Adverse Media Signal To Noise

PEP Screening Noise And Risk Tiering

False Positives In Sanctions Screening

Real-Time and Payment Screening

Challenges driven by faster payments, richer data formats, and increasing expectations for immediate risk controls.

Cross-Border Payment Screening Complexity

Cross-border payment screening is inherently complex. Payments that move across jurisdictions introduce multiple regulatory regimes, currencies, intermediaries, and data standards, all of which must be assessed accurately and consistently in real time.

Cross-Border Payment Screening Complexity

ISO 20022 Payment Message Screening

The global migration to ISO 20022 has transformed how payment data is structured and exchanged. While the standard introduces richer, more granular information, it also creates new challenges for AML and sanctions screening systems that were designed around older message formats.

ISO 20022 Payment Message Screening

Real-Time Screening vs Batch Lag

The shift from batch-based screening to real-time screening is one of the most significant operational challenges facing AML and financial crime compliance teams. While batch processing has historically been sufficient, growing transaction volumes, faster payment rails, and stricter regulatory expectations have exposed its limitations.

Real-Time Screening vs Batch Lag

Cross-Border Payment Screening Complexity

ISO 20022 Payment Message Screening

Real-Time Screening vs Batch Lag

Cross-Border Payment Screening Complexity

ISO 20022 Payment Message Screening

Real-Time Screening vs Batch Lag

Cross-Border Payment Screening Complexity

ISO 20022 Payment Message Screening

Real-Time Screening vs Batch Lag

Data and Watchlist Management

Foundational data quality challenges that directly impact screening accuracy and operational efficiency.

Watchlist Data Quality And Normalisation

Watchlist data quality and normalisation sit at the core of effective AML and sanctions screening. Even the most advanced screening logic will fail if the underlying watchlist data is inconsistent, incomplete, or poorly structured.

Watchlist Data Quality And Normalisation

Alerting, Decisioning, and Analyst Experience

Operational challenges that affect review quality, consistency, and regulatory defensibility.

Audit Trails And Defensible Decisioning

Audit trails and defensible decisioning sit at the heart of modern AML and financial crime compliance. As regulators place greater emphasis on accountability, transparency, and outcomes, firms must be able to clearly explain how and why every compliance decision was made.

Audit Trails And Defensible Decisioning

Alert Fatigue In Compliance Teams

Alert fatigue is a growing challenge for AML and financial crime compliance teams. It occurs when analysts are overwhelmed by large volumes of alerts, many of which are low quality or repetitive, making it harder to identify genuinely high-risk activity.

Alert Fatigue In Compliance Teams

Audit Trails And Defensible Decisioning

Alert Fatigue In Compliance Teams

Audit Trails And Defensible Decisioning