Entity-centric EDD,
at enterprise scale.

Surveillance brings customer data, screening and adverse media, documents, transaction behaviour, workflow and AI-assisted investigation into one regulator-ready platform — so your analysts spend less time gathering evidence and more time making risk decisions.

Faster reviews

Context pre-assembled and AI-assisted. Analysts make the call.

Stronger control

Your policy runs the workflow, with QA gates and a full audit trail.

Enterprise volume

Millions of entities, one consistent standard across every team.

Surveillance: a 360° entity risk view Customer data, screening, adverse media, transactions, documents and external intelligence form one ring around the entity — a 360° entity risk view that resolves to one defensible decision, made by the investigator. CUSTOMER DATASCREENINGADVERSE MEDIATRANSACTIONSDOCUMENTSINTELLIGENCE 360° ENTITY RISK VIEW ONE DEFENSIBLE DECISION
The EDD challenge

EDD has become more complex, global and scrutinised. Investigation operations have not kept pace.

Modern EDD requires investigators to bring together broader risk context, stronger evidence, consistent review standards and greater management oversight — often across fragmented systems and jurisdictions.

The operational gaps shaping EDD today

  • Risk context is scattered across disconnected systems.
  • Evidence is gathered by hand, and the audit trail is rebuilt afterwards.
  • Transaction behaviour is hard to read without manual data work.
  • Quality varies by analyst, region and experience.
  • QA, workload and SLAs stay hidden from managers.
  • International and multilingual investigations lack consistent coverage.

Surveillance shifts the operating model from alert-centric review to entity-centric investigation.

In alert-centric review, KYC / CRM, screening, transaction monitoring, documents, external intelligence and case history are reviewed in isolation across systems. With Surveillance, the same signals — customer context, screening, transaction activity, documents, external intelligence and case history — are linked to one entity-centric investigation record.

Surveillance brings every risk signal into the context of the complete entity.
How Surveillance works

One entity-centric investigation workflow, from trigger to outcome.

Six stages, one structured case file. Customer data, alerts, documents and intelligence go in; a risk assessment, evidence and narrative come out — ready for review, escalation or submission.

Audit-ready case file
  1. Trigger & sourceWhy and how the case opened
  2. Entity profileOne resolved view of the entity
  3. Risk signalsBehaviour and exposure
  4. Evidence baseFindings structured and tagged
  5. Review & QA logEvery approval and override
  6. Case outcomeReport and escalation pack
Global risk intelligence

Global coverage, less noise and full traceability

A proprietary risk-intelligence stack, configured by geography, source, category and risk appetite. Any other data feed you rely on plugs into the same stack, and every source stays attached to the investigation it informed.

Proprietarily curated

FCC risk-intelligence database

15,000+Curated news sources
Articles
2B+
Languages
98
Cache
15+ yrs
1,350+Sanctions lists
3M+PEP profiles
3,000+Government, NGO
& regulatory sources

Any data feed

Seamlessly integrated

Third-party, internal or client sources

Intelligence sources
  • Adverse Media
  • Sanctions Lists
  • PEP Intelligence
  • Government, NGO & Regulatory
  • Corporate Registries
  • Offshore Leaks

Bring any other feed. Third-party, internal or client data integrates seamlessly into the same stack, with the same source traceability.

Context Engine

Adverse media assessed in context, with a written rationale for every disposition.

Within Surveillance, Context Engine reads each adverse-media result against the entity’s profile and geography — separating genuine adverse media from coincidental name matches and irrelevant mentions before an analyst reviews the alert.

  • Contextual readingAssesses what each article actually says about the entity, rather than matching on keywords alone.
  • Disposition with written justificationClear false positives are closed with a plain-language explanation for audit and quality review.
  • Profile and geography filteringEntity profile data and geographic relevance narrow results before they reach the analyst.
  • Configurable risk categoriesAligned to the institution’s own risk taxonomy rather than a fixed vendor list.

Analysts retain judgement. Context Engine removes noise before review; every disposition and its rationale remain available for analyst review, override and QA.

How an adverse-media alert is read
How Context Engine reads an adverse-media alertA raw adverse-media alert containing every matching article is read by Context Engine against the entity profile, geography, configured risk categories and article context. In a recent evaluation, average articles reviewed per alert fell from 64.7 to 21.6, a 67% reduction. Below, a representative review result shows the reason, risk tags, risk level and written justification that an analyst can apply or override.Raw alertEvery matching articleContext EngineEntity profileGeographyRisk categoriesArticle contextArticles to review per alertBeforeWith Context Engine67% fewerReview resultNorthstar Trading Ltd. · Adverse mediaREGIONAL DAILY NEWSPAPER · 28 JUL 2025Customs inquiry into a tradingintermediaryApplyOverrideREASONMaterial verified hitTAGSFraudBribery & corruptionRISKHIGHJUSTIFICATIONAdverse: names the entity as intermediary in acustoms inquiry; name, region and role match.Representative illustration · fictional data
Why Surveillance

Not just case outputs. A system to run your entire EDD operation.

Most AI investigation tools stop at generating the case write-up. Surveillance combines investigation, workflow, quality control and audit in one system — from intake to escalation.

Configuration & control

Your EDD policy runs every case, the same way in every team.

Set what is searched, how matches are prioritised and which review and QA steps follow — by jurisdiction and business line.

  • Sources, taxonomies and PEP definitions
  • Thresholds, name and DOB tolerance, risk tiers
  • Review steps, QA gates, escalation and SLAs
Jurisdiction, business line, risk appetite and review-gate settings combine into one configured investigation workflow.
AI with governance

AI speeds the analysis. The audit trail makes it defensible.

AI summarises, translates and drafts narratives, while workflows, QA gates and a full audit trail keep every decision regulator-ready.

  • AI output reviewed and decided by the investigator
  • Every search, rationale and override logged
  • QA trace and PDF / JSON evidence packs
Every search, rationale and reviewer action flows into one evidence pack.
Start fast, scale deep

Deploy in days on your existing data. Integrate deeper over time.

Start as a standalone investigator workbench, then connect your screening, data and intelligence providers — or run it headless inside your own systems.

  • Works with your existing screening and data providers
  • APIs, batch / SFTP, webhooks and SSO
  • No rip-and-replace requirement
Surveillance sits on top of your existing KYC, screening, monitoring and core data systems and connects through APIs, batch, events and SSO.
Deployment evidence

Proven across complex, high-volume investigation operations.

Millions of entities and high investigation volumes, without compromising performance or control. Case studies are drawn from anonymised client deployments across banking, insurance and centralised investigation teams.

Indicative impact

  • 50%faster investigation cycle times
  • 80%+reduction in false positives
  • FewerQA failures and less rework
  • Globalconsistent quality across every team
  • Day 1faster onboarding and periodic reviews
Africa
Tier‑1 Banking Group

Centralised adverse-media monitoring across 10+ countries

A single screening and monitoring environment standardised investigation processes across business units and jurisdictions while improving access to relevant local-news coverage.

~1%Adverse-media monitoring
observed monitoring hit rate
Europe
European Bank

Centralised investigation support for 4,000+ analysts

Global search, reusable evidence and structured workflows reduced duplicated research and supported more consistent investigation execution across teams.

64%
reduction in report-preparation time
24%
average YoY increase in analyst productivity
United States
U.S. Insurer

Modernised screening within the existing compliance environment

Secure bulk ingestion, APIs, configurable thresholds, RBAC, SSO and evidence capture supported the transition from the legacy screening environment.

15M+Screening migration
customers / policyholders migrated
Middle East
Production Screening

Population-scale screening in production

Production screening capability supporting large-scale onboarding and ongoing monitoring.

40MScreening scale
entities screened within 24 hours
Independent recognition
Chartis RiskTech Quadrant®Category LeaderAdverse Media Monitoring Solutions, 2025
Chartis ResearchFinancial Crime & Compliance 502025
Answers

Key questions on architecture, controls and deployment.

Deployment, decision control, oversight and evidence — answered briefly. For detail specific to your estate, speak with the team.

Talk to an FCC Specialist

No. Surveillance can operate as a standalone investigation environment or integrate with your existing screening, data and intelligence providers and your CDD, transaction-monitoring and case-management architecture — through APIs, batch integration, events and data exports. There is no rip-and-replace requirement.

No. AI can assist with contextualisation, deduplication, classification, summarisation, translation, decision support and narrative generation. The investigator retains review and override capability, and the final compliance decision remains under human control.

Yes. Sources, taxonomies, PEP definitions, matching thresholds, lookback periods, monitoring frequency, review gates, escalation rules and SLAs can be configured around institutional policy.

Investigations can be initiated through onboarding, periodic review, event-driven alerts, new adverse media, PEP-status changes, connected-system events or investigator-led review.

The risk-intelligence layer covers 98 languages with translation support. Original source material and provenance remain linked to the investigation for review and traceability.

Source material, findings, rationale, disposition history, reviewer actions, workflow events and supporting evidence remain linked to the case, with structured evidence outputs available for review and downstream use.

Surveillance can be deployed in days using the data you already have. Integration across your screening, data, intelligence and case-management systems can then be extended over time, at the pace your programme sets.

Centralised case ownership, tasking and lifecycle tracking, together with embedded review steps and QA gates, give managers visibility of investigation quality, workload and SLAs across teams and regions.

Background Gradient

Run your EDD investigations in a system designed for control, scale and auditability

Control
Control
Your policies define search, triage, review steps, QA gates and escalation
Scale
Millions of entities, with consistent quality across every team and region.
Auditability
Sources, rationale and reviewer actions captured as the work happens.