RelyComply has announced a partnership with LSEG Risk Intelligence to integrate World-Check On Demand into its financial crime compliance platform, helping global financial institutions strengthen screening, due diligence and ongoing monitoring workflows. 

World-Check On Demand delivers structured, machine-readable risk intelligence through an API-first architecture, enabling organisations to access sanctions, politically exposed persons, adverse media and enforcement information in real time as part of customer onboarding, screening and ongoing monitoring processes.

As regulatory expectations continue to rise, many compliance teams face a growing challenge: managing the increasing volume of alerts, investigations, and reporting requirements without significantly expanding resources. False positives remain one of the biggest operational burdens in AML programmes, consuming valuable time and resources that could be directed towards genuine financial crime risks. At the same time, financial institutions are under pressure to streamline customer onboarding and due diligence processes while maintaining strong controls against financial crime, sanctions breaches and fraud.

Through the partnership, RelyComply integrates LSEG World-Check On Demand into a single AI-driven platform that supports customer screening, identity verification, enhanced due diligence and ongoing monitoring. The integration is designed to support more efficient screening and investigation workflows by bringing together relevant risk intelligence within existing compliance processes, while leaving institutions responsible for their own risk assessment and decision-making.

"For years, organisations focused on gaining access to more data. Today, the challenge is turning that data into measurable outcomes. Regulators increasingly want evidence that compliance programmes and technology solutions are effective, not simply that they exist," says Brad Elliott, CEO of RelyComply

"That expectation extends beyond AML monitoring. Organisations must also demonstrate effective onboarding, due diligence and ongoing risk management. By combining explainable AI-driven capabilities and automation, we help compliance teams manage compliance requirements more efficiently and at scale."

“Our partnership with LSEG Risk Intelligence helps organisations streamline compliance processes while strengthening their ability to manage financial crime risk with confidence."

The announcement comes at a time when financial institutions in South Africa, the United Kingdom and other regulated markets are under increasing pressure to strengthen financial crime controls, demonstrate effective compliance with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations, and meet evolving AML, counter-terrorist financing and Know Your Customer requirements.

Priya Nallan, Head of Product, Screening, at LSEG Risk Intelligence, comments: “Financial crime compliance is increasingly shaped by the ability to access and operationalise trusted intelligence in real time. World-Check On Demand was designed to help organisations embed this directly into their workflows.

“Through the partnership with RelyComply, we are helping compliance teams access timely, structured intelligence within the processes they already use, supporting more efficient screening, due diligence and ongoing monitoring.”

As compliance becomes increasingly data-rich, industry focus is shifting from access to intelligence towards the ability to operationalise it. For many organisations, the next phase of compliance transformation will be defined not by how much data they have, but by how effectively they can use it.