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NEW YORK, July 2, 2026 – ComplyAdvantage, the leader in AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection, has won the XCelent Customer Base and Support Award in Celent’s new report, Know Your Customer Systems: Adverse Media Screening – Technology Capabilities Matrix and 2026 XCelent Awards. ComplyAdvantage was also named a Functionality Standout in Celent’s accompanying Technology Capabilities Matrix, which assesses adverse media screening solutions across the know your customer (KYC) technology market.
Celent is a global research and advisory firm for the financial services industry. In its Technology Capabilities Matrix, it evaluates each solution before placing it into one of five categories based on Celent’s overall market assessment. ComplyAdvantage’s win in the customer base and support category underscores its industry positioning, the strength of its post-implementation support, and direct feedback from customer references.
Adverse media screening empowers financial firms in identifying negative news tied to a customer or entity across global sources and languages. This is a core requirement of ongoing KYC due diligence, and an area where ComplyAdvantage has built its risk intelligence layer to compete directly.
The company’s proprietary data pipeline scans and classifies sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEPs), and adverse media content in near real time. ComplyAdvantage delivers 7X more comprehensive negative news coverage than competitors using multilingual machine learning models and natural language processing (NLP).
The full report is available at celent.com.
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Sarah Cameron for ComplyAdvantage: [email protected]
About ComplyAdvantage
Our mission is to empower every business to eliminate financial crime. By harnessing AI, a unified platform, and an extensive partner ecosystem, we help customers turn compliance into a catalyst for growth, operational resilience, and enduring regulatory trust.
More than 3,000 enterprises across 75 countries rely on our unified platform and the world’s most comprehensive financial crime risk intelligence. With full-stack agentic automation, we help organizations automate up to 95% of KYC, AML, and sanctions reviews, cut onboarding times by 50%, reduce false positives by 70%, and handle 7x more work with the same staff.
ComplyAdvantage is headquartered in London and has global hubs in New York, Lisbon, Singapore, and Cluj-Napoca. It is backed by Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Goldman Sachs, and Andreessen Horowitz. Learn more about compliance re-engineered for the age of AI at complyadvantage.com.