Straight answers to the questions BSA Officers, MLROs, sanctions analysts, and risk managers ask before they buy Global RADAR.
Anti-Money Laundering screening is the process of checking customers, transactions, and counterparties against sanctions lists, PEP databases, and adverse media to identify financial crime risk before onboarding or processing transactions. Global RADAR automates this end-to-end with AI-powered alert ranking that surfaces the highest-risk hits first.
Traditional rule-based screening flags any name match regardless of context, which generates massive false-positive volume. AI-powered screening uses machine learning to weigh additional signals — date of birth, address, geography, watchlist confidence, network connections — and ranks alerts by actual risk. Global RADAR’s models cut false positives by surfacing high-signal alerts first and de-prioritizing low-signal background hits, letting senior analysts focus on what matters.
Sanctions screening checks names against government-imposed restriction lists like OFAC (US), EU consolidated, UN, and HM Treasury. PEP screening checks against politically-exposed-persons databases — current and former government officials, their families, and close associates — who pose elevated bribery and corruption risk. Global RADAR runs both in a single workflow with unified alert disposition.
Global RADAR automatically ingests OFAC updates — and EU consolidated, UN, HM Treasury, and 100+ other watchlists — within hours of publication. Existing customer portfolios are automatically re-screened against new entries, and matches are delivered directly to your compliance team’s alert queue.
Every screening event, alert disposition, document review, and policy change is timestamped with the user identity and action taken. The full audit trail is exportable in formats accepted by regulators, including PDF for examiner walkthroughs and machine-readable CSV/JSON for downstream analytics.
Know Your Customer is the verification process financial institutions use to confirm customer identity and assess money-laundering and financing-of-terrorism risk before onboarding. KYC includes ID verification, source-of-funds documentation, sanctions and PEP screening, beneficial ownership disclosure, and ongoing monitoring. Global RADAR automates each step with audit-grade documentation and risk scoring.
Ultimate Beneficial Ownership verification identifies the natural persons who ultimately own or control a corporate customer, typically those holding 25% or more of equity or voting rights. UBO disclosure is required under FinCEN’s Corporate Transparency Act, EU AMLDs, and global FATF standards. Global RADAR maps UBO networks across multiple jurisdictions and flags hidden ownership chains and shell-company structures.
Onboarding speed depends on customer complexity. For low-risk individual customers, AI-powered screening completes in seconds. For complex corporate KYC with multi-layer UBO chains, Global RADAR typically reduces multi-day manual reviews to minutes through parallel screening, automated document ingestion, and pre-filled risk scoring.
Legacy platforms lead on data depth but often struggle with high false-positive rates, clunky UI, and dated screening logic that hasn’t kept pace with AI. Global RADAR offers comparable data depth — sanctions, PEP, adverse media, UBO, vessel tracking — with modern AI-powered alert ranking, dramatically lower false positives, and an interface designed by former Chief Compliance Officers.
Yes. Global RADAR was designed for the speed fintechs need — real-time API screening, modern UI, predictable pricing — combined with the depth banks require: comprehensive PEP/sanctions/UBO data, full audit trail, and examiner-grade reporting. It’s the intelligent middle ground between legacy AML platforms and pure-play fintech screening tools.
Yes. Global RADAR offers a REST API for real-time screening, batch processing, and webhook-driven alert delivery. The API supports sanctions, PEP, adverse media, and UBO checks. API documentation and a sandbox environment are available — request access via the contact form.
Yes. Global RADAR offers a native Salesforce integration available on the Salesforce AppExchange, enabling sanctions and PEP screening directly within Salesforce Account, Contact, Lead, and custom-object workflows. Available as both a managed package and a REST API integration.
Global RADAR is used by institutions complying with BSA/AML (US), FATCA, OFAC sanctions, FinCEN Corporate Transparency Act, FinTRAC (Canada), FCA and HM Treasury (UK), EU Anti-Money Laundering Directives (AMLDs), FATF Recommendations, and major regional regulators across APAC, the Middle East, and Latin America.
Global RADAR was founded in 2007 by Dominic Suszek, a former Chief Compliance Officer who previously led AML and sanctions programs at top-tier financial institutions. The platform was built by people who’ve sat across the table from examiners — and continuously refined alongside the compliance teams using it daily.
Pricing is based on screening volume, integrations required, and modules used (sanctions, KYC, UBO, ongoing monitoring, etc.). Schedule a working demo with a compliance specialist for a quote tailored to your portfolio. The Compliance ROI Calculator estimates cost savings versus your current platform.
Standard REST API integration typically completes in 2-4 weeks for screening workflows, depending on your CRM, core banking system, and onboarding stack. Native Salesforce integration via the AppExchange is significantly faster — often live in 1-2 weeks. Global RADAR provides implementation support throughout, and the platform can also run standalone if you prefer to evaluate before integrating.
Yes. Engineering teams can request access to a sandbox environment with sample data to test screening calls, alert webhooks, and batch processing before procurement. This lets your developers and CTO evaluate the API surface without sales-cycle friction. Request sandbox access through the contact form.
Most migrations follow a parallel-run pattern: Global RADAR runs alongside your existing platform for 30-60 days so you can validate alert quality, false-positive reduction, and data coverage on real production volume before cutover. Historical case files are imported with their original timestamps and dispositions preserved for audit continuity. Most clients see false-positive reduction and audit-trail improvements within the first parallel-run cycle.
Schedule a working demo with a compliance specialist — not an SDR. Bring a sample alert queue and we will show you what Global RADAR can strip out of it.
Related guides: Audit-Ready KYC Checklist · Why Global RADAR · ROI Calculator
