Payments Screening
Stop Illicit Payments Before Money Moves
Screen transactions against global sanctions, crime and watchlists in real time. Catch threats in milliseconds, stay compliant and protect your business without slowing down payment flows.

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Unauthorized transactions don’t wait — and neither should your payments screening
Traditional payment screening systems struggle to keep up with real-time flows, and lack precision in high-risk scenarios, delaying decision-making and exposing businesses to compliance penalties and risk. SEON’s payment screening enables real-time monitoring, targeted alerts and a unified workflow to detect threats faster and reduce compliance risk.
Screen Transactions in Milliseconds
Automatically check the sender and receiver of every payment against up-to-date sanctions lists sourced from government authorities — before funds are transferred.

Precisely Block High-Risk Transactions
Set granular detection logic by selecting specific sanctions lists to instantly block high risk payments.

Investigate and Escalate in One Dashboard
Review flagged payments in a central dashboard. See additional context, document decisions and maintain a complete audit trail.

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“It is a robust analytics and risk management system that offers customizable options for setting relevance thresholds and reducing false positives. This system seems particularly useful for compliance purposes, allowing the team to monitor customer behavior, background, and appearances on lists for various reasons.”
Monika Zaja
Fraud Manager, YSI
“It is a flexible tool that helps us track possible money laundering activity with features that are highly customizable and help a lot with automation. The high number of sources that the feature has allowed analysts to consider their decisions from different perspectives. This allows the relevant teams to further their knowledge of the customers and for the company to stay compliant.”
Márton Hajagos
Fraud Analyst, Patrianna
Integration
Quickly Integrate Using a Single API
Launch AML screening, transaction monitoring and case management using a single API. All solutions are natively integrated to deliver full compliance functionality in one solution.
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Payment Screening FAQs
Yes. You can screen both the sender and receiver of every transaction in real time. SEON checks against any list you need before funds are transferred, helping you catch risks regardless of payment direction.
SEON’s alert trigger engine uses granular detection logic, allowing you to fine-tune how matches are flagged. You can select exact lists to screen transactions against and configure fuzzy matching to avoid noise, surfacing only the high-risk transactions that actually need review. You can also read more on how to reduce false positives in AML here.
Yes. SEON’s payment screening supports compliance with FATF guidelines and AML regulations across jurisdictions. It helps meet requirements for identifying high-risk transactions, maintaining audit trails and acting on suspicious activity before settlement.
Yes. Flagged transactions automatically appear as alerts in your dashboard, based on the detection logic and thresholds you configure. You can review context, document decisions, escalate alerts to a case and file regulatory reports all in one place.
Yes. SEON offers a single API that gives you access to 900+ real-time fraud signals, alongside AML data sources, enabling you to assess risk at every stage of the customer journey, from registration monitoring and payment screening to transaction monitoring and regulatory reporting, all without managing multiple tools or integrations.
Stop Risky Payments Before They’re Processed
Act in real time with payment screening that adapts to your workflow, not the other way around.
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