Transaction Monitoring and Screening Software
Real-time monitoring and real insights
Money just moves faster now.
Transaction frequency, both traditional and digital, is increasing at an exponential rate. Protecting your business from financial crime requires a solution that works at the speed of the next innovation.
Alessa offers real-time transaction monitoring and screening to help you stay ahead of bad actors and changing regulations.
Key Features
Real-Time, Periodic or Event-Based Monitoring
With Alessa, you can monitor every type of transaction, both traditional and digital, including well-known money laundering scenarios within your industry, to quickly detect any suspicious movements of funds.
Machine Learning and Rules-Based Analytics
Alessa uses machine learning and rules-based advanced analytics to help you detect suspicious transactions that are out of character or exceed the risk tolerance of your organization.
Powerful, Real-Time Transaction Screening
Alessa analyzes all entities involved in a payment transaction (wires, SWIFT, Interac, ACH, CHAPS, etc.) and screens them against infraction lists to determine if one or more parties are a match. This process takes place in real-time, allowing for interdiction if necessary.
Workflows and Case Management for Flagged Transactions
With a highly configurable workflow module, Alessa facilitates collaborative case management and investigation. Plus, Alessa allows your investigators to search the repository of alerts, cases, comments, etc., for related information to include in the current investigation.
Monitor for Suspicious Transactions in Real-Time
Our AML transaction monitoring solution gives you instant results and faster decision-making capabilities. Alessa provides immediate insight into suspicious activity for accurate transaction monitoring, leading to fewer false positives.
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Transaction monitoring is just one module in Alessa’s integrated AML platform. It is powerful on its own, but when used in collaboration with our KYC, sanctions screening, case management, risk scoring and regulatory reporting solutions, you’ll benefit from:
Daily Updates on Client Risk
Alessa provides you with a comprehensive and daily update on client risk, highlighting clients whose risk scores have surpassed your organization’s risk threshold in the last 24-hours.
A 360° View of Each Client
Alessa 360° provides a complete view of client information and activities, making suspicious activity easier to investigate and resolve.
Expedited Processes and Results
We've streamlined and automated many of the time-consuming AML tasks so you can focus on investigation and the next steps to help keep your establishment compliant.
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