Continuous screening enables organisations to monitor customers, entities, and activity on an ongoing basis rather than relying solely on point-in-time checks. As sanctions lists, risk indicators, and customer behaviour evolve, firms must ensure that new risk exposure is identified promptly and handled consistently.

Within the Facctum platform, continuous screening supports solutions such as Customer Screening, Payment Screening, and Transaction Monitoring, helping organisations meet ongoing AML and sanctions obligations across the customer lifecycle.

Why Continuous Screening Is Needed

Point-in-time screening performed only at onboarding or transaction initiation can leave organisations exposed to emerging risk. Sanctions updates, changes in customer status, and new adverse information may occur long after an initial check has been completed.

Continuous screening addresses this gap by enabling ongoing rescreening as relevant data changes, supporting regulatory expectations for persistent monitoring and timely response.

How Continuous Screening Works

Continuous screening works by automatically triggering rescreening events when defined conditions change. These triggers may include updates to sanctions or watchlists, changes to customer data, new adverse media signals, or shifts in risk indicators.

Rather than rescreening entire populations unnecessarily, continuous screening focuses on relevant changes, reducing operational overhead while maintaining coverage.

What Makes Facctum’s Approach Different

Facctum’s approach to continuous screening is designed to be efficient, configurable, and controlled. Organisations can define which changes trigger rescreening and how outcomes are handled, aligning monitoring behaviour with risk appetite and regulatory requirements.

This ensures ongoing risk visibility without creating excessive alert volumes or operational disruption.

Where Continuous Screening Is Used

Continuous screening is applied in scenarios such as:

• Ongoing customer due diligence

• Sanctions exposure monitoring

• Politically exposed person status changes

• Long-lived customer relationships

These use cases benefit from timely identification of new risk without relying on periodic manual reviews.

How Continuous Screening Fits Into The Platform

Continuous screening integrates with other platform capabilities such as watchlist delta management, dynamic risk scoring, probability-based decisioning, and case prioritisation. It can be applied across customer, payment, and transaction workflows.

This integration enables organisations to maintain consistent monitoring across the compliance lifecycle.

Maintain Ongoing Compliance Confidence

Discover how continuous screening can help maintain real-time risk visibility across customer and transaction lifecycles, speak with the Facctum team to see how this capability integrates into your compliance operations.