RelyComply has partnered with LSEG Risk Intelligence to integrate World-Check On Demand into its financial crime compliance platform.
The integration is intended to support global financial institutions in strengthening screening, due diligence, and ongoing monitoring workflows, bringing together customer screening, identity verification, optimised due diligence, and continuous monitoring within a single system.
World-Check On Demand delivers structured, machine-readable risk intelligence through an API-first architecture. The service allows organisations to access sanctions data, information on politically exposed persons, adverse media, and enforcement records in real time, integrated into customer onboarding, screening, and ongoing monitoring processes.
Through the partnership, RelyComply combines this intelligence with its AI-driven platform, aiming to support more efficient screening and investigation workflows. Furthermore, according to the companies, institutions using the integrated system remain responsible for their own risk assessment and decision-making; the platform is designed to support existing compliance processes rather than replace institutional judgement.
Addressing operational pressures in compliance
The partnership responds to a set of operational pressures facing compliance teams, including rising alert volumes, growing investigation and reporting requirements, and constraints on resourcing. False positives remain a significant burden in anti-money laundering (AML) programmes, according to the companies, consuming time and resources that could otherwise be directed towards genuine financial crime risks. At the same time, institutions face pressure to streamline onboarding and due diligence while maintaining controls against financial crime, sanctions breaches, and fraud.
Brad Elliott, CEO of RelyComply, said regulatory expectations have shifted from organisations demonstrating access to data towards demonstrating measurable outcomes from compliance programmes and technology. He added that this expectation extends to onboarding, due diligence, and ongoing risk management, alongside AML monitoring.
In addition, Priya Nallan, Head of Product, Screening, at LSEG Risk Intelligence, said financial crime compliance is increasingly shaped by organisations' ability to access and operationalise trusted intelligence in real time, and that World-Check On Demand was designed to support this within existing workflows.
Regulatory context
The announcement comes as financial institutions in South Africa, the UK, and other regulated markets face increasing pressure to strengthen financial crime controls. This includes demonstrating compliance with Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations and meeting evolving requirements related to AML, counter-terrorist financing and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes.
At the same time, the integration reflects a broader shift within financial crime compliance, where industry focus is moving from access to data towards the ability to operationalise it within existing systems. As compliance requirements continue to expand, institutions are increasingly evaluating technology partnerships based on their capacity to support efficiency and demonstrable outcomes, rather than data availability alone.
