The global gaming industry processes billions of in-game transactions every year, from DLC purchases and digital credits to publisher settlements and marketplace trades. With such high-frequency cross-border activity, game developers, studios, and platforms must ensure every financial interaction complies with sanctions and AML rules.

Facctum’s sanctions screening software enables gaming operators to manage these risks in real time while keeping gameplay and user experience seamless.

Why Gaming Companies Need Sanctions Screening

Studios, publishers, and platforms operate globally, processing purchases, refunds, wallet credits, and partner settlements at scale. This activity intersects with evolving sanctions regimes and heightened expectations for evidence-based controls.

International guidance underscores transparent, technology-enabled screening for digital commerce, with policy work highlighting the role of data and automation in AML/CFT oversight.

Operational Challenges For Gaming Compliance Teams

High-velocity commercial events and diverse partner networks can strain legacy screening approaches. Teams must maintain accuracy and auditability without adding friction to gameplay or checkout.

Launch Spikes And Seasonal Peaks

Major releases and sales events create transaction surges that require elastic throughput and low-latency checks.

Cross-Region Sales And Settlements

Multiple jurisdictions, currencies, and tax regimes demand consistent sanctions screening across customers, partners, and flows.

Third-Party Sellers, Publishers, And Affiliates

Marketplace sellers and distribution partners can introduce indirect exposure. Screening counterparties and payables increases control coverage.

Noise, Tuning, And Explainability

Over-sensitive matching inflates false positives. Transparent reasoning and tuneable policies help reviewers focus on genuine exposure.

How Facctum Supports Sanctions Screening For Gaming

Facctum’s cloud-ready software integrates with storefront, billing, and partner systems to deliver real-time, explainable screening with strong governance.

Watchlist Management

Maintain accurate sanctions and PEP data with automated ingestion, versioning, and controlled propagation. Operators standardise list governance through the watchlist management solution.

Customer And Counterparty Screening

Apply context-aware matching to players, publishers, resellers, and affiliates with clear reasoning trails and auditability via the customer screening solution.

Payment Screening

Screen purchases, refunds, and partner settlements in real time, supporting peak volumes and multi-region operations with the payment screening solution.

Alert Adjudication

Standardise investigations and document outcomes with reasoning codes, routing, and version control using the alert adjudication solution.

Use Cases Tailored To The Gaming Industry

These scenarios illustrate how sanctions screening enhances oversight while preserving a smooth player experience.

Checkout And Refund Screening

Evaluate buyers and payment flows against up-to-date lists during purchase and refund events to reduce exposure.

Partner Payables And Revenue Share

Screen publisher, reseller, and affiliate disbursements before settlement to maintain consistent controls across counterparties.

Gift Cards, Wallet Credits, And Keys

Apply list checks to issuance and redemption of stored value and keys to avoid indirect sanctions exposure.

Global List Propagation Across Brands

Synchronise updates so every label, storefront, and region operates on current data.

Regulatory Context For Gaming Platforms

Supervisors expect effective, evidence-based controls that keep pace with new markets and product lines. International AML/CFT policy on technology enablement emphasises transparent, auditable screening for digital transactions.

The FATF’s work on digital transformation of AML/CFT highlights how technology can enhance monitoring effectiveness. Operators also benefit from monitoring high-risk and other monitored jurisdictions to inform policy tuning and regional risk reviews.

Core Capabilities For Sanctions Screening At Scale

Facctum focuses on speed, explainability, and governance so teams can demonstrate effectiveness without sacrificing performance.

• Advanced Matching And Context: Configurable thresholds, transliteration handling, and multilingual support with documented rationale.

• Policy Governance And Versioning: Full history of list changes and policy updates for audits and model risk reviews.

• Unified Oversight: Real-time dashboards for list health, screening metrics, and system status.

• API-First Integration: Embed controls into commerce, billing, and partner systems without re-platforming.

Why Gaming Operators Choose Facctum

Gaming companies prioritise screening that is fast, consistent, and defensible. Facctum enables real-time checks, clear reasoning for every decision, and rapid adaptation to list changes across markets, supporting compliance while keeping player experiences seamless.

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Evolving AML Regulations for Gaming Operators

Regulators are paying closer attention to digital asset purchases and marketplace trading inside games. Frameworks aligned with FATF guidance now expect developers and publishers to monitor micro-transactions and virtual-item exchanges for sanctions exposure.