Every risk has
a Watcher
Risk Watcher brings identity, business verification, AML screening, transaction monitoring and media intelligence under one group, covering a single customer from onboarding to the headlines without stitching vendors together.
The Brands Under Risk Watcher
Five specialist brands, one connected group
What changes when one entity covers it
Identity, business verification and UBO, sanctions and PEP screening, transaction monitoring, and media risk, covered by one entity instead of stitched across vendors. Here is what changes for the institution running it.
Cover
more
Verify, screen, monitor and listen from one group instead of a different vendor for each.
Decide
faster
Purpose-built tools give analysts context instead of noise, so reviews end in decisions.
Prove
easier
Every check keeps its evidence, so audits follow a trail instead of a reconstruction.
Scale
further
Add products and markets as you grow, without another procurement cycle each time.
Five specialists, not one generalist.
Risk Watcher is the parent group behind five products that watch different dimensions of risk. Each one runs on its own. Together they cover a customer relationship from first onboarding to final transaction, and everything the world says in between
Five Product. Five Numbers
Liveness false-accept rate, the lowest published in the industry
Companies covered across official registries
Transactions processed per second
From a story breaking to an alert in your hands
Cut in false alert queue, via Agentic AML
Built to Watch Every Stage
Four stages of the risk lifecycle, five specialist products. Start with one, add the rest when you need them.
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01 · Identity Verification
Not every face is real
Prove the person is real before they become a customer.
Liveness detection
Confirm a real person is present at the moment of capture.
Deepfake detection
Flag synthetic and injected media before it reaches onboarding.
Face match
Match a face to a document in 1:1 mode or search in 1:N mode.
Spoofing protection
Guards against 56+ types of spoofing attacks, from photos and masks to injection attempts.
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02 · Business Verification
See who actually owns it
Registry records prove the business exists. Ownership mapping shows who controls it.
UBO discovery
Map beneficial owners through layered ownership structures.
Perpetual KYB
Get alerts when a verified business changes after onboarding.
Business verification
Confirm a company against official registry records.
Global coverage
Corporate data across 250+ countries and states, from 2,000+ official sources.
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03 · Screen
Check every name against the world’s risk data
Screen people and businesses against sanctions, PEP and adverse media data we research and maintain in house.
Sanctions screening
215+ sanction regimes with continuous updates.
PEP screening
6M+ PEP profiles with clearly defined risk levels.
Adverse media
50,000+ sources classified against FATF-aligned categories.
Watchlist screening
3,500+ watchlists from global and local bodies.
TruRisk scoring
Contextual scoring that cuts false positives by 44%.
Ongoing monitoring
Rescreen your whole book automatically as data changes.
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04 · Monitor
Watch the money once it starts moving
Catch the patterns that screening alone cannot.
Real-time monitoring
Score transactions as they happen, with batch review alongside.
custom rules
Combine rule-based scenarios with behavioral detection.
Alert management
Triage, investigate and resolve alerts from one queue.
Reporting support
Keep the evidence you need when a case becomes a report.
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05 · Listen
Hear risk before it reaches the headlines
Track what the world is saying about your customers, counterparties and brand.
News monitoring
Follow global and local coverage at scale.
media intelligence
Pick up chatter before it hardens into a narrative.
Sentiment and narrative tracking
Watch how coverage shifts across regions and languages.
Early alerts
Get notified the moment coverage starts to spike.
Solutions
How Teams Combine the Products
Most customers start with one and add others as their risk surface grows.
Ongoing compliance stack
Rescreen customers as data changes and watch their transactions in parallel.
- The book is rescreened as lists update
- Transactions are monitored in real time
- Alerts from both land in one review flow
Digital onboarding stack
Verify the person, verify the business and screen both before the account opens.
- Liveness and face match confirm the applicant
- Registry checks confirm the business
- Everyone is screened before approval
Reputation defense stack
Catch adverse coverage early and feed it back into customer risk.
- Coverage spikes trigger an early alert
- Named entities are checked against risk data
- Risk ratings update before the story peaks
Industries
One entity for every regulated market
The mix of products changes by industry. The standard behind them does not.
Banks and neobanks
Onboarding, screening and monitoring under one roof.
Payments and fintech
Fast onboarding without giving up depth of checks.
Crypto and Web3
Screening and monitoring built for high-velocity flows.
Lending and BNPL
Verify borrowers and businesses before credit moves.
iGaming
Player verification and AML controls for licenses.
Insurance
Screen policyholders and claims parties at every stage.
Marketplaces
Verify sellers and watch for reputational exposure.
Wealth and trading
Screen investors and track market-moving narratives.
15+ Years Of Shaping Compliance Technology Globally.
"We built Risk Watcher because compliance should protect businesses, not paralyze them. With AI-driven screening, real-time intelligence, and coverage across 232+ countries, we give compliance teams the power to act, fast, confidently, and at scale."
Khurram A.
Founder — Risk Watcher
Our Team
Risk Watcher is backed by a global team of 1,000+ professionals dedicated to compliance, technology, and customer success, with over a decade of experience serving 10,000+ businesses worldwide.
Real clients. Real trust.
A combined view of actual clients across the group's products, not stock logos.
GoPhoenix Solutions
FAQ
Questions we hear first
What is Risk Watcher?
Risk Watcher is the parent group behind five specialist products: AML Watcher, Facia, The KYB, Transaction Watcher and Media Watcher. Each covers a different dimension of risk, from identity to media coverage.
Do the products work independently?
Where does the screening data come from?
Which product should we start with?
How do we get a demo?
Five products. One entity.
Which risk are you covering first?
Tell us which risks keep you up at night. We will show you the product, or the combination, that watches them.