Risk Screening & Monitoring for Payment Businesses

Manage financial crime risk across high-volume payment operations with connected customer screening, risk assessment, transaction monitoring and investigation capabilities.

Risk Screening & Monitoring for

Payments Challenges

Financial Crime Challenges for Payment Businesses

Fast-moving payment ecosystems require businesses to manage growing transaction volumes, evolving fraud risks and regulatory obligations without disrupting legitimate payments.

01

High-Volume Transactions​

Large and growing payment volumes make it harder to identify suspicious activity efficiently.

02

Real-Time Risk Decisions​

Fast payment flows require timely screening and monitoring without creating unnecessary delays.

03

Evolving Fraud Patterns​

Mule accounts, payment fraud and other emerging typologies require continuous and adaptive monitoring.

04

False Positive Overload​

High alert volumes can overwhelm compliance teams and delay the investigation of genuine risks.

Compliance Lifecycle

How Payment Businesses Manage Risk Across the Compliance Lifecycle

From onboarding customers to monitoring payment activity, ZIGRAM connects risk intelligence across every stage of the compliance lifecycle.

01

Customer Screening​

Screen customers against sanctions, PEP and adverse media data before and during onboarding.

02

Risk Assessment​

Assess customer and business risk using configurable factors, intelligence and risk models.

03

Investigation

Investigate alerts with connected customer, transaction and external risk intelligence.

04

Payment Monitoring​

Monitor payment activity and identify unusual behaviour, patterns and potentially suspicious transactions.

05

Ongoing Monitoring​

Continuously monitor customers and risk signals as information and behaviour change.

COMPLIANCE LIFECYCLE

How Payments Use ZIGRAM
Across the Compliance
Lifecycle

From onboarding customers to monitoring payment activity, ZIGRAM connects risk intelligence across every stage of the compliance lifecycle.

01

Customer Screening​

Screen customers against sanctions, PEP and adverse media data before and during onboarding.

02

Risk Assessment​

Assess customer and business risk using configurable factors, intelligence and risk models.

03

Investigation

Investigate alerts with connected customer, transaction and external risk intelligence.

04

Payment Monitoring​

Monitor payment activity and identify unusual behaviour, patterns and potentially suspicious transactions.

05

Ongoing Monitoring​

Continuously monitor customers and risk signals as information and behaviour change.

Outcomes

Why Payment Businesses Choose ZIGRAM

Build scalable financial crime controls that help manage payment risks while supporting efficient and seamless payment operations

Faster Risk Screening

Faster Risk Screening

Screen customers and counterparties efficiently without adding unnecessary friction to payment journeys.

Improved Transaction Visibility

Improved Transaction Visibility

Gain greater visibility into payment activity, risk signals and potentially suspicious behaviour.

Reduced False Positives

Reduced False Positives

Improve alert quality and help teams focus on transactions and customers that require attention.

Faster Investigations

Faster Investigations

Bring relevant customer, transaction and external intelligence together to support efficient investigations.

Scalable Compliance

Scalable Compliance

Manage growing payment volumes and customer bases without proportionally increasing manual compliance effort.

Stronger Risk Controls

Stronger Risk Controls

Apply connected screening, risk assessment and monitoring across the payment lifecycle.

Our Solutions

We leverage our proprietary Integrated RegTech Stack to offer the Risk Application Ecosystem to customers across the world, to help manage risks and compliance driven use cases

Segments

Payment Segments We Serve

ZIGRAM supports payment businesses across different models with scalable solutions for managing financial crime and compliance risk.

FAQs For Payments

Key questions answered for Payments teams evaluating a more connected approach to AML compliance

What financial crime risks do payment businesses face? toggle

Payment businesses sit between many customers, merchants and counterparties, often settling funds within seconds. That combination attracts sanctions exposure, mule networks moving funds through legitimate rails, merchant-side fraud and layering through rapid pass-through activity. The volume involved means risk has to be identified systematically rather than case by case.

How can payment companies monitor high volumes of transactions? toggle

Automated monitoring applies rules and models to every payment rather than a sample, scoring activity against the customer's expected profile. Scenarios can be tuned per payment corridor, product or merchant category, and only scored exceptions are routed to analysts, so review effort stays tied to risk rather than volume.

How can payment businesses reduce false positives? toggle

Better match logic and risk-based thresholds do most of the work: tuned name matching, contextual data on the customer and counterparty, and scenario thresholds calibrated to actual payment behaviour. Enriching alerts with screening and customer context also lets teams close clear non-matches quickly instead of investigating from scratch.

Can payment companies screen customers and counterparties? toggle

Yes. Screening can be applied to customers at onboarding, to merchants and counterparties, and to parties involved in individual payments, checked against sanctions, PEP, watchlist and adverse media data. Ongoing re-screening picks up changes to those lists between reviews.

How does ZIGRAM help manage payment compliance risk? toggle

ZIGRAM connects screening, risk assessment, payment monitoring and investigation in one workflow supported by global risk intelligence. Alerts arrive with the customer, counterparty and transaction context attached, which supports consistent risk decisions across the payment lifecycle and a clear audit trail for regulators.

See How ZIGRAM Fits Into Your Compliance Workflow

Discover how ZIGRAM helps payment businesses manage financial crime risk with connected screening, risk assessment, payment monitoring and investigation capabilities.

  • AML Screening & Risk Intelligence
  • Customer & Counterparty Risk Rating
  • Payment & Transaction Monitoring
  • Investigation & Case Management
  • Ongoing Monitoring & Regulatory Compliance

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