Capital Markets Risk Screening

Q: Can Facctum support real-time counterparty and trade screening?

Yes. Facctum is designed for real-time screening workflows that allow capital markets firms to assess counterparty and transaction risk at the point of trade without relying solely on batch processing.

Q: Is Facctum suitable for high-volume trading environments?

Yes. Facctum supports high-throughput screening workloads and is designed to scale alongside peak trading volumes and market surges.

Q: Can we screen against internal risk lists as well as sanctions lists?

Yes. Facctum supports internal watchlists alongside global sanctions, PEP, and adverse media data through a single governed data layer.

Q: Does Facctum reduce false positives?

Facctum applies probabilistic scoring, configurable filters, and data normalisation to help reduce noise and prioritise higher-risk matches without sacrificing regulatory coverage.

Q: Can Facctum integrate into trading and settlement platforms?

Yes. Facctum follows an API-first architecture, allowing screening, monitoring, and alerting capabilities to be integrated directly into trading, clearing, and settlement workflows.

Facctum helps firms screen against sanctions and PEP lists, monitor ongoing risk, and maintain audit-ready compliance workflows across high-volume trading and settlement environments.

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Smart, scalable tools built to strengthen AML, screening, and monitoring across financial institutions.

Customer Screening

Screen customers and counterparties in real time with accurate risk profiling built for fast, compliant onboarding workflows.

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Watchlist Management

Centralise, govern, and enrich sanctions, PEP, and adverse media lists to improve screening accuracy and reduce false positives.

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Payment Screening

Screen payment parties and transaction data against sanctions, PEPs, and watchlists to identify financial crime risk.

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Transaction Monitoring

Continuously monitor transaction streams to identify suspicious behaviour patterns and flag real risks in real time.

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Alert Adjudication

Standardise and accelerate alert investigations with explainable AI scoring that reduces manual effort and false positives.

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Watchlist Management

Centralise, govern, and enrich sanctions, PEP, and adverse media lists to improve screening accuracy and reduce false positives.

Learn More

Customer Screening

Screen customers and counterparties in real time with accurate risk profiling built for fast, compliant onboarding workflows.

Learn More

Payment Screening

Screen payment parties and transaction data against sanctions, PEPs, and watchlists to identify financial crime risk.

Learn More

Transaction Monitoring

Continuously monitor transaction streams to identify suspicious behaviour patterns and flag real risks in real time.

Learn More

Alert Adjudication

Standardise and accelerate alert investigations with explainable AI scoring that reduces manual effort and false positives.

Learn More

Watchlist Management

Centralise, govern, and enrich sanctions, PEP, and adverse media lists to improve screening accuracy and reduce false positives.

Learn More

Customer Screening

Screen customers and counterparties in real time with accurate risk profiling built for fast, compliant onboarding workflows.

Learn More

Payment Screening

Screen payment parties and transaction data against sanctions, PEPs, and watchlists to identify financial crime risk.

Learn More

Transaction Monitoring

Continuously monitor transaction streams to identify suspicious behaviour patterns and flag real risks in real time.

Learn More

Alert Adjudication

Standardise and accelerate alert investigations with explainable AI scoring that reduces manual effort and false positives.

Learn More

Why Compliance Pressure Is Increasing for Capital Markets Firms

Capital markets firms operate in fast-moving, high-volume trading environments and face growing regulatory scrutiny, expanding sanctions obligations, and rising financial crime risk exposure. Legacy screening tools struggle to support real-time trade flows, complex counterparty networks, and evolving AML requirements.

High-Velocity Trading Activity

Real-time trading requires screening decisions to be made without disrupting execution or settlement workflows.

Complex Counterparty Networks

Broker-dealers, custodians, clearing houses, and trading venues introduce layered counterparty risk exposure.

Cross-Border Settlement Risk

Global trading activity exposes firms to multiple sanctions regimes and regulatory requirements.

Regulatory Accountability

Firms must maintain explainable screening decisions and audit-ready records to satisfy regulators and market authorities.

How Facctum Helps Capital Markets Firms Strengthen Compliance Oversight

Facctum prepares and governs compliance data so capital markets firms can screen counterparties and transactions accurately, reduce false positives, and stay regulator-ready across high-volume trading environments.

Ingest Trade and Counterparty Data

Facctum ingests transaction events, trade metadata, and counterparty details from trading, clearing, and settlement systems.

Normalise and Structure Records

Incoming data is standardised into consistent formats to support accurate name and entity screening.

Deduplicate and Resolve Identities

Duplicate counterparty records and fragmented identities are consolidated to reduce noise and repeat alerts.

Apply Counterparty and Transaction Screening

Counterparties and trades are screened against sanctions, PEP, adverse media, and internal risk lists at the point of activity and during lifecycle events.

Score and Filter Results

Probabilistic scoring and configurable filters are applied to prioritise higher-risk matches and reduce false positives.

Generate Review-Ready Alerts

Structured alerts are created with full data context, helping analysts understand why a trade or counterparty was flagged.

Route and Prioritise Cases

Alerts are triaged and prioritised based on risk level, counterparty type, and market exposure to prevent backlogs.

Maintain Audit-Ready Records

All screening decisions, data changes, and adjudication actions are logged to support regulatory review and internal governance.

Why Capital Markets Firms Choose Facctum

Facctum is designed to support regulated trading environments by improving screening efficiency, reducing manual review load, and maintaining regulatory readiness at scale.

Fast Screening

Facctum delivers real-time screening results in under 80 milliseconds. Whether you’re processing SWIFT, SEPA Instant, or ISO 20022 transactions, payments stay compliant without slowing down. Explore Payment Screening to see how our technology keeps every transaction moving.

Always On, Always Compliant

With 99.9% uptime, Facctum keeps your AML operations running without interruption, even during peak volumes or system changes. Your compliance team can focus on decisions, not downtime. Learn more in Alert Adjudication about how we keep workflows live and audit-ready.

Sanctions Updates Within Minutes

Our platform refreshes regulatory watchlists in under 5 minutes, so you’re always screening against the latest data. No more lag between updates and checks, only timely, accurate alerts. See how FacctList automates sanctions and list management across global jurisdictions.

Scales With You - 5 Million+ Records

Facctum already handles over 5 million watchlist records for banks and neobanks worldwide. From sanctions, PEPs and internal lists, our platform grows as your compliance needs grow. Discover FacctView for seamless customer and counterparty screening at any scale.

Designed for Capital Markets Infrastructure

Facctum integrates into trading and compliance workflows to support real-time screening, monitoring, and alert resolution across high-volume market environments.