Sumsub and ComplyAdvantage: Could AML Screening be Easier?

Global full-cycle verification platform Sumsub has announced a strategic partnership with ComplyAdvantage, a provider of AI-driven financial crime compliance solutions. 

The collaboration is designed to enhance anti-money laundering (AML) screening capabilities for compliance teams across the globe by merging Sumsub’s verification environment with ComplyAdvantage’s Mesh intelligence layer.

The solution brings together Sumsub’s single environment for know-your-customer (KYC), know-your-business (KYB) and transaction monitoring, as well as ComplyAdvantage’s Mesh. 

This AI-native intelligence layer combines entity resolution, financial crime risk data and enterprise-scale threat detection to deliver a complete view of risk.

Integrated intelligence for global compliance

As compliance requirements grow stricter across jurisdictions and financial institutions face increasing scrutiny, organisations must manage sanctions screening, politically exposed person (PEP) checks and watchlist monitoring in real time with increasing precision. 

ComplyAdvantage’s Mesh will now serve as the foundational intelligence layer powering Sumsub’s AML screening platform.

For the 4,000 companies currently using Sumsub, the partnership introduces the Mesh Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) feature.

This enables customers to connect their own ComplyAdvantage Mesh API credentials directly into the Sumsub platform, ensuring flexibility, control and seamless workflow orchestration across the compliance lifecycle.

“Compliance teams don’t need more tools – they need one powerful system that does it all,” says Andrew Novoselsky, Chief Product Officer at Sumsub.

“With ComplyAdvantage Mesh fully embedded into our platform, we’re not just enhancing AML screening – we’re redefining how compliance operates. 

“Sumsub brings together verification, screening, monitoring, and intelligent decisioning into a single environment, giving teams complete control, real-time intelligence, and the ability to scale with confidence in an increasingly complex regulatory landscape.”

Technical agility and screening precision

The technical backbone of this partnership relies on an API-first approach. This strategy is intended to bring a marked improvement on performance, screening flexibility and support broader customisation to align with varying risk appetites and regulatory expectations.

The integration also improves screening accuracy and signal quality within Sumsub’s case management workflows.

This follows the recent launch Sumsub’s Summy AI Copilot, which delivers actionable insights to accelerate AML reviews. The addition of Mesh intelligence ensures that these reviews are backed by high-fidelity data sourced directly from primary origins.

A new delivery channel for Mesh

The partnership also offers significant advantages for existing ComplyAdvantage customers.

By using Sumsub’s platform as a new delivery channel, these users can access Sumsub’s review tools and case management while continuing to base their screening activity in Mesh – the same source trusted by over 3,000 enterprises across 75 countries.

Mark Watson, Chief Technology and Product Officer at ComplyAdvantage explains: “ComplyAdvantage was built from the ground up to solve the hardest problems in financial crime intelligence – proprietary data sourcing, AI-native risk classification, and complete ownership of every stage from collection to delivery.

“This partnership with Sumsub brings that foundation to a broader set of compliance teams who demand both speed and precision, alongside a full-cycle verification platform.

"Because we ingest directly from source, sanctions changes hit our pipeline in under a minute and are available for screening within hours – while much of the industry still waits one to two days. 

“With Mesh, that intelligence is built in, not bolted on. It's the layer that underpins modern compliance stacks.”