In our latest on-demand webinar, industry experts explore the need for real-time risk intelligence, and unpack the role of automation in risk screening and sanctions compliance.
- Financial institutions face unpredictable regulations, rising customer expectations for speed and the rapid expansion of the payments ecosystem.
- Discover how technology and automation can act as enablers, emphasising efficiency, cloud adoption, real-time data and transparency and critical trends for building agile compliance frameworks.
On-the-ground challenges
Drawing on insights from LSEG’s 2025 global survey of 850 senior risk leaders in financial services, our webinar delivers a global snapshot of how compliance teams are adapting to the challenges of real-time risk.
In addition, our white paper, Operating at the Speed of Crime: The Case for Real-Time Risk Intelligence outlines the findings in detail.
The risk landscape today is complex. Firms are required to comply with evolving regulations, and meet constant client demands for rapid, seamless experiences – delays can quickly convert to a loss of customer trust.
Against this backdrop, our survey findings reveal that:
- 80% experience delays to their customer onboarding and payment processes due to compliance screening.
- 77% find manual review workloads a major challenge, and 75% report high false positives.
- 98% believe real-time access to sanctions and risk data is important to their compliance workflows.
Our online webinar poll further confirmed that manual review and remediation, and high false positives are the top challenges faced:
Webinar respondents reveal their top screening challenges to be manual review and remediation workload (40%) and high false positives (40%).
A dynamic, challenging risk environment
The regulatory environment remains almost impossible to predict, given a highly dynamic geopolitical landscape, evolving sanctions and new regulations, such as the EU's Instant Payments Regulation (IPR).
David Shepherd, Head of Market Planning – Screening, LSEG comments, “In an environment of dynamic risk there are just so many different parts of the ecosystem that are moving, and not necessarily in a coordinated way. This leads to many different variations of pieces of regulation on national, regional and global levels.”
Efficiency is a constant battle, because every time we improve, there are higher volumes, more sanctions, new regulations – so the frontier moves all the time.
In addition to these challenges, there is also a growing need for compliance to support business outcomes and deliver a good customer experience – all while keeping costs low.
Furthermore, an added complication is exponential growth in the payments universe. Shepherd comments, “With different entities entering the payments ecosystem, customers need to look at real-time risk amongst multiple different parties that didn't necessarily exist in that chain before.”
Against this backdrop, some important trends to watch in the technology and data space, including:
- The need for enhanced efficiency – specifically more precision, lower false positive rates and reduced workloads.
- Growing cloud adoption, which enables scalability and allows for composable, flexible architectures where different components can be linked through standard APIs.
- The increasing demand for real-time data and solutions.
- A rising need for explainability and transparency.
Automation, trusted data and agility
The net result of the challenges outlined is that legacy systems simply cannot cope – periodic risk reviews no longer marry up with a dynamic risk environment. Today, firms need real-time risk intelligence in their hands as quickly as possible.
Automation can help – it means that the riskiest elements can be almost immediately escalated and acted upon. Right now, genuine risk is often lost in the noise, and it can take days or weeks to find.
Moreover, our experts are clear that data is the foundation of excellent screening. Misinformation is highly prevalent in the age of data proliferation – and therefore absolute trust in the source of any data is critically important.
In a world of massive information, trust in your data is absolutely critical.
In addition, a persistent lack of consistency in the way data is produced means that it is extremely challenging for organisations to ingest it into automated programmes with speed and efficiency. It is therefore essential to choose a data provider that has invested in data structure and optimised data for smooth ingestion into screening programmes.
And finally, agility is essential, with our speakers offering a last word of advice: build your screening infrastructure for extreme flexibility.
Our experts conclude,
You don't know what's going to happen tomorrow – and that's one of the reasons why today’s compliance functions are so much more technology-driven than in the past.
Watch the full, on-demand webinar.
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