AML API

Complement your fraud prevention toolkit with anti-money laundering tools. AML API makes anti-money laundering checks efficient and pain-free.

Pair the data unearthed by our data enrichment tools with PEP, sanctions, adverse media and high-risk names to counter fincrime all in one place using SEON.

You can enable the automatic monitoring of high-risk customers using the toggle on the AML Screening list view or the Summary section of the AML screening details page.

Tip: You can also choose to enable monitoring directly from your API request, simply set the monitoring_required field to true.

When automatic monitoring is enabled, SEON will re-run checks on the selected customer every month. If we find any changes in the data the person of interest’s status will change to Reopened.

Did you know: You are only charged for a single API call for an entire month of daily monitoring checks. However, Manual API calls for monitored individuals will incur additional costs.

You can also adjust the monitoring settings and adjust the system default settings by enabling/disabling certain sources or adjusting how often the lists are updated. Alternatively, you can also update the monitoring settings for individual customers as well.

Tip: Head over to our AML source and monitoring settings page to learn how to finetune your AML monitoring to your business needs. 

You can use AML API as a part of:

• our Fraud API integration
• a standalone API
• or through the SEON Admin Panel

Using your customer's first name, middle name, last name, and place and date of birth, or running complex searches adding a place and date of birth, we check matches and similarities in 120 different data sources, including:

• Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) & Relatives & Close Associates (RCAs) Customize who you consider a PEP based on your risk appetite. See if they’re connected to known relatives and close associates.
• Sanctions Check names against global sanction lists automatically at onboarding and turn on ongoing monitoring to ensure you stay compliant. Catch name variants and known personas.
• Crime lists Identify those who are on FBI, INTERPOL, and DEA.
• Watch lists Learn if your customer is on any watch list or under a warning from financial authorities around the world.
• Adverse media Monitor special interest persons and negative news across a wide range of categories.

When running an Entity search in AML API, you only need to provide a name, as the other fields don’t apply here. For the full list of applicable data sources, please check this page. 

Note: AML API currently supports character sets for several major writing systems including Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic and Persian.

Fuzzy search is a search algorithm that uses approximate string matching to find results similar to, but not exactly the same as, your search query. It helps you identify risky customers and users when exact matches fail. This comes in handy if you take transliteration, typos, or name variants and slightly different spellings into consideration. You’ll also get a relevancy score for fuzzy search results to filter out false positives.

Learn more: Visit our dedicated Knowledge Base article to learn how to use fuzzy search. 

Head to the AML page from the Admin Panel to see a list of customers that you have screened with AML API. The list shows all queries sent over your API integration. Checks conducted from the manual page are only listed if monitoring has been turned on.

See potential matches and their respective probabilities from the list view, alongside the timestamp of your latest check, status information, and the monitoring toggle. Click on a row to review the potential matches.

Persons of interest in the list can have one of three states:

• New This customer has just been added to your database and hasn't been reviewed by your team before.
• Reviewed Your team has reviewed the potential matches of this person and taken any required action.
• Reopened This customer's case has to be reviewed again due to a change in their data, new potential hits, or suspicious activity.

The Screening details page houses a summary and three widgets to accelerate your KYC and AML checks:

• Identity widget Shared with the Transaction Details view, this widget showcases all information on the digital footprint of a user collected by SEON. Learn more on the Transaction Details – Widgets page.
• AML information widget This widget showcases all information connected to your AML API request, including input data, potential matches, and a list of data sources. Click Refresh Data to run the API check again manually.

• List status widget The List status widget lets you add data fields connected to AML API results to your blacklist, whitelist, or any custom lists right from the details view. Learn more on the Transaction Details – Widgets page.

Head to the Hits section of the AML information widget and click on View hits to access the list of potential matches based on data similarity and known associates and aliases (also known as – akas). Expand the Listing Hits menu to review possible matches.

Matches are sorted by list type. Click on a potential match to see its details on the right side of the panel. If the hit is a false positive, i.e., your customer is not the same as the person detailed in the match, click Mark as false match in the top right corner of the modal. Proceed to the next hit. You do not have to mark correct hits.

If all potential matches are false, you can click the Mark all hits as false match button under the list of hits. Click Close to suspend your review of a given customer. Choose Mark as Reviewed when you have completed your check of the potential matches. This will change the state of the customer to Reviewed.

Read more about how you can use AML API:

Learn more:
Feature overview: Run manual AML checks from the Manual Lookup page.