Risk Screening Precise screening with minimal friction
Protect your institution and meet sanctions obligations with minimal customer friction. Accurately understand customer risk and block risky payments with high-precision screening for sanctions, PEPs and adverse media.
Risk Screening Solution Get precision hits, no alert fatigue
The age-old problem in screening?
High false positive volumes. As customer and transaction volumes grow, legacy systems can’t keep up. Disjointed tools slow teams down, forcing them to spend valuable hours clearing false hits while good customers await updates.
Hawk’s AML screening software brings accuracy and speed. A proprietary, flexible screening algorithm delivers precision, while the unified cloud infrastructure ensures fast performance.
That means fewer held payments, faster customer onboarding, and sharper detection of genuine risks, across sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.
The Hawk Difference Discover how Hawk raises the bar for efficient watchlist screening
The Traditional Way
- Payments blocked unnecessarily
- Generic algorithm, not built specifically around screening use cases
- Slow processing and poor scalability
- Costly maintenance with individually mapped connections to each payment rail
- One-size-fits-all approach that doesn’t reflect local regulations
- Hardcoded rules, managed by vendor support team
- Outdated user interface requiring many clicks and one-hit-at-a-time reviews
The Hawk Way
- Friction-right controls with low false positives
- Proprietary fuzzy matching algorithm with granular, rule-specific tuning settings
- 150 ms avg. response time at scale
- Easy maintenance thanks to uniform payment rail mapping via single API
- Multi-tenant structure that supports regional regulations
- Self-serve model configuration and sandbox testing
- Simplified, unified view of all watchlist hits
Product Suite A unified screening system with a centralized case manager
Customer Screening
Maintain due diligence throughout the customer lifecycle using dynamic and static data to maximize risk coverage
Payment Screening
Screen payments to identify and prevent suspicious transactions, using powerful matching technology
Hit Resolution & Management
Get a holistic view of your alerts and maximize efficiency with a unified case manager
Our main screening features at a glance
Sanction Screening
Identify and block transactions involving sanctioned entities, countries, and sectors.
- Automated screening against global and local sanctions lists (OFAC, OFSI, UN, EU, etc.)
- Routine list updates for compliant, ongoing screening
- Configurable fuzzy matching logic to reduce false positives
PEP & RCA Screening
Pinpoint politically exposed persons (PEPs) and relatives/close associates (RCAs) with close ties to your institution.
- Coverage of domestic and international PEP and RCA databases
- Ongoing monitoring for status changes or new associations
- Screening at customer onboarding (either automated or ad-hoc searches) and during periodic reviews
Adverse Media Screening
Uncover reputational and financial crime risks through negative news and adverse media sources.
- Continuous monitoring of global news
- Multilingual coverage for cross-border investigations
- Scalable processing to handle high volumes of clients
Dual-Use Goods Screening
Detect payments for goods, technologies, and services with both civilian and military applications.
- Automatic classification against international dual-use goods lists
- Payment interdiction to block transactions before settlement
Embargo Checks
Prevent prohibited transactions involving embargoed countries, regions, or entities.
- Jurisdiction-specific embargo rules (UN, EU, OFAC, national regulators)
- Flexible rule-building for country-specific restrictions
Learn why forward-thinking Risk & AML leaders choose Hawk
Hawk's highly customizable SaaS solution and modern case management interface empowered us to adopt a more efficient approach to combating financial crime.
Horst Gottsnahm, Chief Risk Officer, VakıfBankHawk provides reasoning behind each flagged alert, which does most of the heavy lifting for our compliance team. Instead of being reactive, we are now proactive.
Deepak Baran, Head of Financial Technology, Vodafone FijiHawk's innovation is ahead of the competition.
The Forrester Wave™: Anti-Money Laundering Solutions, Q2 2025The Hawk team demonstrated technology leadership and willingness to work closely with us to hit ambitious goals.
Mirko Krauel, CEO, OTTO PaymentsIf you’re looking for a partner who truly understands the regulatory space, listens to what you need, moves fast, and actually delivers – go with Hawk. The tech is strong, the people are great, and honestly, it just works.
Denny Axt, Director of Compliance & AML, Ratepay
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How is agentic AI changing the way that financial crime and compliance teams work? Our latest whitepaper provides you with 50 pages of insight on the best use cases for agentic AI, covering:
- Improving investigations
- Enhancing system accuracy
- Optimizing workflows
Awards & Recognition Leading the industry forward
Learn how Hawk's AI-fueled technology is driving the future of AML & CFT, according to software analysts and industry experts.
Ultra-granular AML screening, tailored to your risk appetite
Adapt the algorithm to your compliance needs, screening any customer data or payment field for risk, with rule-by-rule custom weighting
Banking Risk screening for the modern banking sector
Assess clients at onboarding and during their lifecycle, ensuring risk is managed no matter who they transact with through your bank.
Payments Versatile screening that adapts to your needs
Screen both payees and payors, assessing payments for risk in real-time. Assess transactions across all payment rails, both domestic and cross border.
FinTech Real-time screening for the FinTech industry
Screen clients and transactions for risk through real-time APIs. Hawk’s flexible screening works for all FinTech use cases, regardless of whether they’re cross-border, on-chain, for an emerging financial product, or conducted via technology / open banking partnerships.
Neobanks Scalable screening built for rapid growth
Get risk screening built for digital channels and your modern tech stack. Hawk’s true real-time processing (150 ms average) and API-first integration design allows you to do business at speed.
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Hawk is the only supplier from 22 profiled companies to receive the XCelent Advanced Technology 2024 award.
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Request a demo with one of our product experts and find out if Hawk meets your business needs.
During the demo process you'll touch on Hawk's:
- API infrastructure and data integration capabilities
- Modular design and flexible multi-tenant set up
- No-code rule builder, AI feature library, and model explanations
- Any further questions you may have