Financial Intelligence

Finance / Anti-money laundering

Argus.

Anti-Money
Laundering System.

An anti-money laundering platform for transaction monitoring, KYC risk scoring, sanctions screening and enhanced due diligence.

For compliance analysts, AML leads and risk teams. Detect, prioritise, investigate and report with the relevant evidence in view.

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The investigation, connected

From an unusual pattern
to a reasoned review.

A signal becomes useful when the analyst can inspect the surrounding evidence. The workflow follows the question through to the final disposition.

The source record

Identity

Customer and account context

Activity

Transaction patterns and changes

Relationships

Connected entities and counterparties

The investigative record

One case.
The relevant context.

  1. Examine the trigger.
  2. Connect the related evidence.
  3. Test the explanation.
  4. Record the analyst’s judgment.

Conceptual workflow. An alert is a review question, not a finding of financial crime.

Four connected capabilities

Keep the question
and the evidence together.

01

Transaction monitoring

Observe changes in behaviour.

Review movement patterns, velocity changes and structuring indicators with the context needed to understand the signal.

02

KYC risk scoring

Understand the customer.

Bring identity, geography, behaviour and historical interactions into the customer risk review.

03

Sanctions screening

Examine the match.

Review entities and counterparties against watchlists and adverse signals, with explainable match context.

04

Enhanced due diligence

Build the investigative record.

Connect high-risk entity evidence, review history and approvals so the decision can be followed and challenged.

Operating flow

From data to disposition.

01

Ingest

Customer, account, transaction and external watchlist data in a governed layer.

02

Score

Dynamic AML and KYC risk assessment using policy-aware logic.

03

Screen

Sanctions and adverse-signal checks with match context.

04

Investigate

Prioritised alerts and supporting evidence for analyst review.

05

Report

Case records and reporting artifacts for the applicable workflow.

Illustrative operating flow. Data connections, model configuration, reporting obligations and deployment controls are specified for each engagement.

Governance controls

Reviewable at every step.

Role-based access for analysts, compliance leads and risk governance teams.

A decision trace from source event to final disposition.

Human review checkpoints for consequential risk classifications.

Private cloud and controlled enterprise deployment requirements.

An alert, risk score or match is not proof of misconduct. No software output certifies regulatory compliance; deployment commitments belong in the service agreement.

Human review matters

The outcome needs
an explanation.

Identity, behaviour and a suspicious pattern are different parts of the record. A defensible investigation keeps the trigger, supporting evidence, counterevidence and final decision distinguishable.

Source eventAnalyst reviewDocumented disposition

Questions about Argus

Start with the workflow.

What does Argus cover?+

Transaction monitoring, KYC risk scoring, sanctions screening and enhanced due diligence. Scope, data connections and deployment requirements are discussed with the team.

Does an alert establish that a financial crime occurred?+

No. An alert identifies a question for review. The analyst needs the surrounding evidence, an explanation of the signal and a documented disposition.

Who is Argus designed for?+

Compliance analysts, anti-money-laundering leads, investigators and risk teams who need a connected view of customer, account and transaction evidence.

Does this website process customer transactions?+

This website presents information about Argus. It does not connect to or process live customer transactions. Data connections, access, model configuration and reporting obligations belong to the actual controlled system.

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