Name Screening

Purpose

Name Screening supports onboarding and periodic review by checking customer and prospect names against external sources and relevant watchlists. It helps financial crime teams identify true risks, reduce false positives, and produce clear rationales for compliance and regulatory review.

Primary users

The primary users are financial crime teams, KYC teams, onboarding teams, compliance analysts, and periodic review teams in financial services institutions.

Where it fits (process/stage/trigger)

It fits during customer onboarding, prospect assessment, KYC refresh, periodic review, and financial crime risk screening. It is triggered when a customer or prospect name must be screened before approval, continuation, or escalation.

Key capabilities / workflow

The agent searches relevant public web sources and screening references, collects supporting evidence, compares potential matches against customer or prospect data, and analyzes whether hits are likely true matches or false positives. If evidence is incomplete, it loops back to refine the search and review. It then produces a documented screening conclusion with rationale suitable for internal review and regulator-facing explanation.

Inputs

Inputs include customer and prospect names, available identifying information, onboarding data, periodic review data, screening criteria, and web source results.

Outputs / Deliverables

Outputs include screening results, potential match analysis, false positive rationale, risk flags, supporting source evidence, escalation notes, and a regulator-ready screening rationale.

Value

The agent reduces manual screening effort, improves consistency in false positive analysis, strengthens auditability, and helps financial crime teams provide clear, evidence-backed explanations during onboarding, periodic reviews, and regulatory inquiries.