Sanctions screening shouldn’t feel like a constant uphill battle, but for many community banks, it does. Small teams face growing lists, rising alert volumes, manual investigations, and tools built for large institutions, not community budgets. The result is more noise, more work, and less time for real risk. Most challenges fall into four areas:
- Volume: too many alerts
- Intelligence: limited context and prioritization
- Process: manual, inconsistent reviews
- Cost: enterprise complexity without enterprise budgets
You don’t need more headcount or heavier systems. You need smarter, right-sized screening.
Alessa gives community banks smarter, right-sized sanctions screening that reduces alert volume, adds risk-based intelligence, and streamlines investigations so small teams can focus on true risk instead of noise. With pay-for-what-you-use data and lower list costs, with Alessa you can easily demonstrate measurable ROI while strengthening protection against regulatory and reputational harm.
For community banks, effective AML compliance requires tools that reduce noise, improve risk visibility, and meet examiner expectations without overwhelming limited resources.
Why Community Banks Choose Alessa for AML & Sanctions Screening
Alessa’s AML screening software is designed specifically for community banks that need strong controls without enterprise overhead.
Global Coverage of PEPs, Watchlists and Sanctions List
Instead of juggling multiple sources or manual checks, monitor risk in one place, making due diligence faster, exams easier, and high-risk relationships easier to spot.
Real-time, Periodic or Event-based Screening
Alessa helps you quickly identify high-risk customers and businesses so you can avoid risky relationships, stay compliant, and focus limited staff time where it matters most.
Reduced False Positives
Alessa uses advanced analytics, configurable confidence thresholds, and sophisticated name-matching to score and prioritize alerts, helping your team focus on true risk instead of noise.
Ongoing Support
Get ongoing support to help get the most for your AML program long after go-live. With deep experience navigating data sources, partners, and legacy systems, our team works alongside you to tailor and continuously optimize your screening so it fits your processes.
Demonstrate ROI
When you only pay for the lists you need, you reduce data spend and cut false positives, resulting in clear, measurable ROI with fewer manual hours, faster reviews, and more effective risk detection without adding headcount or enterprise-level costs.
Dashboards and Audit Trails
Alessa provides clear visibility into every alert and investigation with centralized dashboards and complete audit trails that track each action taken. This makes it easy to monitor performance, demonstrate program effectiveness, and provide examiners with the required documentation.
Make AML Compliance Easier With An Integrated Solution
Validate Customer Identity in Real-Time with Identity Verification & KYC for Banks
Know who you are doing business with within minutes. Alessa integrates with your onboarding system to verify identities in real-time, providing you with updated risk profiles and scores.
Detect Suspicious Patterns With Transaction Monitoring
Monitoring every type of transaction (i.e. deposits, wires, checks), Alessa offers you a holistic view of your data to help identify suspicious activities. Monitoring can be done in real-time, periodically or on demand.
Automate Regulatory Reporting
With Alessa, all of your regulatory reports (CTRs, SARs, LCTRs and STRs) can be auto-populated, validated, and electronically submitted across multiple jurisdictions.
AML Risk Scoring
Develop a risk scoring model that matches your bank’s risk tolerance, so you have a complete picture of each of your clients. Our ID verification and risk intelligence capabilities provide you with updated risk profiles and scores for all of your members.
Enhance Collaboration With Case Management
Alessa offers you a highly automated case management solution that allows your team to better collaborate and resolve issues faster, engaging your entire organization in a culture of compliance.
Get A 360 View of Client Risk
Alessa 360 gives you a clear, all-in-one risk dashboard that helps you quickly pinpoint the clients and alerts that need immediate attention each day.
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