AML & KYB Verification API
SignalX’s AML & KYB Verification APIs enable teams to automatically screen businesses and associated entities against regulatory, sanctions, and risk signals directly within onboarding, underwriting, or transaction workflows.
How does it work?
Submit Identifiers
Pass company identifiers such as CIN, PAN, Company Name, or director details via JSON.
SignalX Risk Engine
We correlate data from sanctions lists, adverse media sources, regulatory databases, and official business registries.
Receive Structured Output
The API returns real-time risk flags and verification status in JSON. Embed in Workflows Consume results to automate decisions in onboarding, payment logic, risk scoring, and compliance systems.
API Response Includes:
- ✓ entity_status – Active / Inactive / Deregistered
- ✓ aml_risk_level – Low / Medium / High
- ✓ sanctions_match – Yes / No
- ✓ pep_flag – Politically Exposed Person detected
- ✓ adverse_media_flag – Yes / No
- ✓ business_type – Private Ltd / LLP / Partnership / Proprietorship
Use Cases
For Customer & Business Onboarding Teams
Automatically screen individuals and businesses during onboarding against sanctions, PEP lists, and watchlists. Reduce manual reviews, false positives, and onboarding delays while meeting regulatory KYC / KYB requirements.
For Finance, Risk & Compliance Systems
Continuously assess AML and KYB risk by validating entities against global watchlists and adverse media sources. Supports risk-based decisioning, regulatory audits, and internal compliance controls with real-time API checks.
For Marketplaces, Platforms & Payment Systems
Ensure customers, merchants, and partners meet AML and KYB risk thresholds before activation or payouts. Embed automated screening into transaction monitoring, partner approval, and ongoing risk workflows.
Benefits of Using Our API
Plug and Play Integration
A REST-based AML screening API with a consistent request/response structure, designed for fast integration into KYC, onboarding, and transaction monitoring systems.
Real-time Sanctions & Watchlist Screening
Instantly screen individuals and entities against global sanctions lists, PEP databases, and enforcement watchlists in real time.
Early Financial Crime Risk Detection
Identify high-risk profiles before onboarding or transactions to reduce exposure to money laundering, terrorism financing, and regulatory breaches.
Trusted Compliance Data Sources
AML results are sourced from authoritative global and local regulatory datasets, ensuring accurate screening with minimal false positives.
Built for Continuous Monitoring
Supports both one-time screening and ongoing AML monitoring with scalable throughput and low-latency responses.
Seamless Compliance Automation
Easily embed AML checks into customer onboarding, periodic reviews, and transaction workflows to maintain audit-ready compliance.
FAQs
The AML API screens individuals and entities against global sanctions lists, PEP databases, adverse media sources, and regulatory enforcement lists to identify financial crime risk.
Yes. The API is built for scale and supports batch processing and high-throughput screening with consistent performance.
Yes. Where available, the API returns ownership and control details to help identify beneficial owners.
Yes. The API flags entities that are inactive, struck-off, or associated with high-risk indicators.
Yes. The API is designed for high-volume KYB workflows with enterprise-grade reliability.
Ready to automate AML & KYB checks?
Reduce manual reviews and meet regulatory expectations with real-time entity screening and risk signals.
