Takeaways from ‘Reinventing AML Screening for Greater Efficiency & Impact’
With the rising stakes in regulated industries, such as iGaming and online lending, traditional methods of AML compliance are increasingly inadequate. Manual, batch-driven approaches expose businesses to regulatory risks, operational inefficiencies and heightened vulnerability to financial crime.
On June 25, SEON experts gathered for a webinar moderated by Christina Brichetto, Product Marketing Manager and featuring Jeremy Doyle, Director of Growth for AML Solutions, and Gintare Wycherley, Senior Solutions Engineer at SEON. The webinar — available for watching here — offered deep insights into transitioning from outdated compliance methods to real-time, automated AML screening workflows. The discussion highlighted the challenges, benefits and critical strategies for implementing effective compliance operations. Below are the top takeaways from the conversation.
1. The Urgent Need for Real-Time Screening
Legacy AML screening workflows — built on batch processing and delayed reviews — can’t keep pace with the velocity of modern risk. Transitioning to real-time screening equips compliance teams to proactively identify threats as they occur, significantly minimizing regulatory and financial exposure.
“Bad actors act fast, and your controls need to keep pace. Delayed, batch-based reviews leave gaps. Screening needs to trigger at onboarding or any other high-risk action, to give your team immediate visibility.”
Jeremy Doyle
2. Pre-KYC Risk Assessment as a Compliance Game-Changer
The earlier your compliance process can flag suspicious users, the better. Pre-KYC screening empowers teams to block bad actors before they enter costly verification workflows — improving accuracy and saving time, money and team morale.
“By layering in pre-KYC signals like IP, device intelligence and digital footprint analysis, you can automatically flag high-risk behavior at the start. It’s a simple principle: act earlier, and your team spends less time cleaning up later.”
“Higher-quality data gives compliance teams the confidence to work more efficiently, target risk more accurately and make faster, better-informed decisions.”
Jeremy Doyle
4. Fine-Tuning Fuzzy Logic for Optimal Results
Fuzzy logic is a powerful tool, but only when it’s controllable. Giving compliance teams the power to adjust match sensitivity based on jurisdiction, risk appetite or business context is what separates modern platforms from legacy systems.
“Compliance teams need the ability to tune match sensitivity, adjust logic by jurisdiction and handle rapid changes without relying on developers. The difference? Less noise, fewer false positives and more focus on real risks.”
Gintare Wycherley
5. Integrating Fraud Insights with AML Compliance
Fraud signals bring much-needed context to AML workflows. When combined, these insights help compliance teams differentiate between anomalous but legitimate behavior and truly suspicious activity, enhancing precision while reducing noise.
“Fraud signals are the missing pieces in your AML puzzle. These signals help establish a baseline of normal behavior, surface unusual outliers and prioritize real threats, reducing noise and improving efficiency.”
Jeremy Doyle
Modern AML Screening Isn’t Just Smarter, It’s Necessary
The conversation made one thing clear: legacy AML practices can no longer support the scale, speed and sophistication of today’s financial operations. Real-time customer screening, contextual risk assessment and the integration of fraud intelligence provide foundational shifts toward more adaptive, resilient compliance programs.
When teams are empowered with flexible controls, accurate data and unified systems, they no longer spend their days managing manual exports or chasing alerts in spreadsheets. Instead, they gain the space to think strategically, respond faster to evolving risks and stay audit-ready.
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