complead

What is complead?

complead (formerly Sanction Scanner) is a compliance platform for fraud and financial crime, from the company of the same name, headquartered in London. In 2026 the product was rebranded from Sanction Scanner to complead as it expanded from AML screening to a platform covering the customer lifecycle.

One engine for screening, onboarding and monitoring

complead runs every check on one engine, complead Fusion. Each customer has one record and one explainable risk score shared across screening, KYC, KYB, transaction monitoring, and fraud checks. Analysts review that record and score across those checks.

Key capabilities

Sanctions, PEP and adverse media screening with ongoing monitoring
KYC and identity verification for individuals
KYB and UBO verification, including ownership aggregation across layers to surface entities that are blocked without appearing on a list
Transaction monitoring with a scenario library, AI-assisted rule writing, and backtesting on historical transactions before a rule goes live
Real-time fraud prevention for payments, devices, merchants, and bank transactions
Agentic AML-Risk Ops agents that triage alerts and prepare cases for analyst review

Who uses it

The company reports that more than 800 institutions in 80+ countries use complead, including banks, payment and e-money institutions, fintechs, insurers, crypto exchanges, money transfer, leasing, and factoring companies. complead has offices in London, New York, and Istanbul.