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The financial crime risk management world is filled with products and providers that promote their data, artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, and user interface (UI). However, our conversations with financial services customers suggest many miss the bigger picture around what these elements are intended to deliver when brought together: insights. 

Individual elements of a vendor’s offer may sound impressive on paper, but if they don’t deliver insights that analysts, team leads, and MLROs can use to make effective decisions, report to executives, and demonstrate compliance during audits, they are not fit for purpose. 

This article explores how the ComplyAdvantage Mesh platform provides actionable insights for compliance teams. 

This article is part of a series on the capabilities of the ComplyAdvantage Mesh platform. Rather than being a dedicated insights platform, Mesh is designed to provide a 360-degree view of risk in a single platform. Links to the rest of the series are available at the end of this article. 

What are AML insights?

AML insights are valuable pieces of information derived from the analysis of AML data. These insights help financial institutions (FIs) understand and mitigate risks associated with money laundering and other financial crimes.

In the context of financial crime compliance, we leverage our AML data to build insights that help firms make better decisions across several key areas, including:

  • Take a risk-based look at customers being onboarded and backbooks.
  • Access granular, actionable insights into false positives.
  • Get a detailed, live view of team performance – e.g., against SLAs.
  • Breakdown risks by AML type, country, customer risk level, and other attributes.
  • Easily export data with configuration and filtering capabilities. 

Viewing and analyzing financial crime data: Common challenges

The ComplyAdvantage Mesh platform has been built from the ground up with customers’ challenges in mind and reflects our more than ten years of experience in financial crime risk management. With respect to AML data management, common challenges we see relate to out-of-control backlogs, missed SLAs, and team performance not improving, all of which contribute to higher risk exposure. There are several root causes of this:

  • Clunky data exports.
  • Too many false positives.
  • Inability to identify where bottlenecks are occurring in workflows.
  • Insights that are not granular enough to be actionable. 
  • Team leads are unable to track performance effectively.
  • Lack of a real-time, risk-based view of customers at onboarding.

What does an AML data analytics tool look like?

Data analytics tools will vary based on how different RegTech providers operate. ComplyAdvantage has proprietary data and risk products built on a single platform. It can combine these elements to provide clear, detailed insights without additional software. Analysts can view everything they need using the same interface to manage cases and customers.

Using ComplyAdvantage Mesh for AML insights 

The ComplyAdvantage Mesh platform offers a range of dashboards for insights into the efficiency and effectiveness of compliance programs. These insights cover both cases and customer screening. Specific functionalities include:

  1. Filter dashboards by date range and frequency.
  2. Download data in either CSV or image format for reporting purposes.
  3. Review a number of key customer monitoring metrics, including:
    a) Monitoring screens: The number of times monitored customers were re-screened during the period selected.
    b) Hits: The proportion of monitored customers that returned profiles during monitoring.
    c) Profiles per hit: Average number of profiles per hit.
    d) Hit rate: The proportion of customers monitored with a hit is shown as a percentage.
    e) Distribution of profile decisions: The proportion of true positive vs false positive matches is shown as a percentage.
  4. Access a range of customer screening insights, including:
    a) The number of screens and the number of hits.
    b) The number of profiles per hit.
    c) The hit rate, shown as a percentage.
    d) The distribution of profile decisions (true positive vs false positive profiles as a percentage).
  5. Explore key case data, including the number created, not started, in progress, accepted, and rejected. Open cases can also be viewed by creation date, user, and risk level.

Questions to ask when evaluating AML data analytics and insights platforms

With the capabilities of the ComplyAdvantage Mesh platform in mind, when evaluating the insights offered by other RegTech vendors, firms should consider:

  1. How are insights displayed, and how can analysts, team leads, and MLROs quickly access information?
  2. What data does the insights dashboard use, and does it provide a real-time view?
  3. Can data be exported for regulatory reviews and audits – and in what formats? 
  4. How can the information that’s displayed be filtered and broken down? Do analysts have the flexibility to set filters and review information based on our risk-based approach?
  5. Does the platform display both internal team and customer insights in a single place?

Find out more about ComplyAdvantage Mesh by reading the other articles in the series:

Explore how ComplyAdvantage Mesh gives firms a 360-degree view of risk

Find out more about how Mesh combines industry-leading AML risk intelligence with actionable risk signals to screen customers and monitor their behavior in near real-time.

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Originally published 21 January 2025, updated 27 January 2025

Disclaimer: This is for general information only. The information presented does not constitute legal advice. ComplyAdvantage accepts no responsibility for any information contained herein and disclaims and excludes any liability in respect of the contents or for action taken based on this information.

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