Global full-cycle verification platform Sumsub and AI-driven financial crime compliance ComplyAdvantage have joined forces in a new strategic partnership. The collaboration aims to significantly enhance anti-money laundering (AML) screening capabilities for compliance teams operating in an increasingly complex global regulatory landscape.
The integrated solution brings together Sumsub’s comprehensive environment for Know-Your-Customer (KYC), Know-Your-Business (KYB), and transaction monitoring with ComplyAdvantage’s Mesh platform. Mesh acts as an AI-native intelligence layer, combining entity resolution, financial crime risk data, and enterprise-scale threat detection to provide institutions with a complete, holistic view of risk.
Meeting the demand for real-time precision
As compliance requirements grow stricter across jurisdictions and financial institutions face heightened regulatory scrutiny, organisations must manage sanctions screening, politically exposed person (PEP) checks, and watchlist monitoring in real time, with an increasing need for absolute precision.
To meet this demand, ComplyAdvantage’s Mesh will now serve as the foundational intelligence layer powering Sumsub’s AML screening platform. This API-first technical approach brings a marked improvement in performance and screening flexibility, supporting broader customization to align with varying institutional risk appetites.
Additionally, Sumsub—which is trusted by over 4,000 companies worldwide—is officially launching Mesh Bring Your Own Key (BYOK). This new feature enables customers to connect their own ComplyAdvantage Mesh API credentials directly into the Sumsub platform, ensuring total flexibility, control, and seamless workflow orchestration across the entire compliance lifecycle.
One powerful system for compliance teams
The partnership promises to improve screening accuracy and signal quality, provide richer profile information, and enable a seamless experience within Sumsub’s existing case management workflows. It follows the recent launch of Sumsub’s Summy AI Copilot, a tool designed to deliver actionable insights that accelerate AML reviews.
Andrew Novoselsky, chief product officer at Sumsub, emphasized the industry’s need for consolidation.
“Compliance teams don’t need more tools—they need one powerful system that does it all,” Novoselsky stated. “With ComplyAdvantage Mesh fully embedded into our platform, we’re not just enhancing AML screening—we’re redefining how compliance operates. Sumsub brings together verification, screening, monitoring, and intelligent decisioning into a single environment, giving teams complete control, real-time intelligence, and the ability to scale with confidence in an increasingly complex regulatory landscape.”
High-fidelity intelligence at scale
For existing ComplyAdvantage customers, the partnership unlocks a powerful new delivery channel. Organizations can now access Sumsub’s advanced review tools and case management system while continuing to base their core screening activity in Mesh, a high-fidelity intelligence source currently trusted by over 3,000 enterprises across 75 countries.
Mark Watson, chief technology and product officer at ComplyAdvantage, highlighted the technical superiority of the integration.
“ComplyAdvantage was built from the ground up to solve the hardest problems in financial crime intelligence – proprietary data sourcing, AI-native risk classification, and complete ownership of every stage from collection to delivery,” Watson explained.
He noted that because ComplyAdvantage ingests data directly from the source, critical sanctions changes hit their pipeline in under a minute and are available for live screening within hours—a stark contrast to much of the industry, which often waits one to two days.
“With Mesh, that intelligence is built in, not bolted on. It’s the layer that underpins modern compliance stacks,” Watson concluded.
