Shufti Included in The Forrester Wave™: Anti-Money-Laundering Solutions, Q2 2025

The fight against illegal finance is growing faster than ever. Organized criminals now hide behind speed and anonymity offered by digital channels like crypto and easier crossborder funds movement. Taking advantage of new tools, fake identities, old tactics and loopholes in weakly regulated jurisdictions, criminals launder about $800B–$2T every year, as per a UNODC estimate.

In the case of financial institutions, fintechs, and regulated sectors, the old defense mechanisms based on rules, which were once adequate, are no longer effective against the intensity and pace of modern money laundering.

Regulatory bodies such as FCA, FinCEN, and the EU’s new AML Authority (AMLA) are expanding expectations and tightening controls. Screening needs to be more thorough, and monitoring should take place on an ongoing basis. Data used for screening must be complete, multilingual, and global.

AML compliance has become an active, intelligence-bound field that relies on sophisticated data, automation, and analytics to be able to survive more complex financial crime typologies. The Forrester Wave™: Anti-Money-Laundering Solutions, Q2 2025 serves as an independent evaluation of top AML providers.

The report evaluates 15 AML solution providers against an 18-point set of criteria, including Current Offering and Strategy. 

This inclusion matters to us because it signals a shift in buyer expectations. AML teams are no longer prioritising incremental rule tuning or isolated controls. The market is moving toward durable, data-centric foundations capable of operating at a global scale and absorbing regulatory complexity.

How Shufti’s Data Layer Strengthens AML Screening?

Effective AML begins with data, its breadth, depth, accuracy, and currency. Shufti’s AML solution is built around data aggregation and proprietary intelligence, supported by three core pillars.

A Proprietary Data Layer for Deeper Insight

Unlike vendors that rely solely on public and third-party sources, Shufti leverages a proprietary database built on over 1 million data points.

This internal data layer reflects how global regulators define and expect risk to be evaluated, giving compliance teams:

• More accurate identity resolution
• Fewer blind spots in high-risk geographies
• Enhanced visibility across complex relationships
• Consistent, regulator-aligned screening outputs

For institutions confronting complex financial crime, this proprietary intelligence is a decisive advantage, particularly when public data sources are incomplete or outdated.

Unparalleled Watchlist Coverage and Global Scale

Shufti screens users against a broad and continuously updated intelligence network that includes:

• 3500+ global watchlists (regulators, law enforcement, internal lists)
• Coverage across over 240+ countries and territories
• Multilingual monitoring and real-time database refresh cycles

Shufti’s AML screening is designed to support broad coverage across jurisdictions and list types. It helps financial institutions to respond promptly to changes in geopolitics, along with the release of new sanctions and evolving networks that finance terrorism.

Extensive and Tiered PEP Database

Shufti maintains a large global PEP dataset, containing:

• 2.6 million+ PEPs
• Aggregated RCA records
• Region-specific classifications aligned with global regulatory definitions

This accurate PEP dataset helps compliance teams clearly identify politically exposed individuals and their close associates. This is increasingly important as regulators pay more attention to corruption, state-linked actors, and influence networks.

Enhanced Adverse Media for Lifecycle Risk Management

Beyond list-based screening, Shufti provides:

• Multilingual adverse media
• AI-driven keyword refinement
• Real-time monitoring across business and personal reputational risks

This capability means that institutions capture ethical, behavioral, and reputational red flags, not just sanctions exposure, across the entire customer lifecycle.

What Strategic Product Direction Means for AML Compliance?

While Shufti’s current AML offering is robust, its product direction focuses on evolving regulatory expectations, automation, and intelligent risk detection.

This roadmap is designed around future regulatory trajectories, next-generation automation, and intelligent risk detection.

Hyper-Alignment with Global AML Regulations

Shufti’s vision is engineered to evolve with regulatory change across FATF jurisdictions, the EU’s AML package, FinCEN modernization initiatives, and Wolfsberg Group principles. This alignment enables compliance teams to:

• Adapt quickly to new mandates
• Maintain consistency across global operations
• Deploy policies across multiple regions without rebuilding workflows

As regulatory unpredictability grows massively, the approach aligns with regulations that help organizations stay compliant and reduce the risk of legal issues.

Reducing Manual Workload and Driving Operational Efficiency

AML operations are strained by alert spikes and false positives. There are also constraints arising from manual investigations. Therefore, Shufti’s roadmap directly targets these pain points. In certain deployments, Shufti has observed reductions in manual review effort and false positives, depending on use case, configuration, and risk appetite:

• Up to 85% reduction in manual review through automation
• 65% decrease in false positives using advanced matching that understands global name variations, transliterations, and spelling differences
• API-first case management that integrates seamlessly with existing compliance stacks

This indicates more appealing results in terms of faster decisions and fewer escalations, as well as more consistent investigations.

Engaging with our Community, Ecosystem, and Regulations

Shufti’s impact on the ecosystem is another significant aspect as the platform continues to maintain:

• Active user groups
• Regular compliance publications
• Participation in regulatory discussions
• A growing partner ecosystem

This community engagement ensures Shufti’s roadmap is shaped by real-world practitioner needs, not theoretical frameworks.

Why This Matters for the Next Phase of AML?

Shufti’s AML platform has strong capabilities and is rapidly accelerating strategic momentum.

Shufti is focused on scalable AML capabilities and long-term product development.

The company pairs a data-rich, globally comprehensive AML platform available today with a visionary roadmap supporting compliance teams navigating evolving AML requirements.

For compliance teams navigating rising regulatory scrutiny, cross-border complexity, and increasing AML spend projected through 2029, Shufti offers a high-velocity alternative, one capable of transforming AML from a reactive cost center into a proactive, intelligence-driven function.

Shufti’s trajectory signals a platform that is aligning AML operations with emerging regulatory and operational demands.

Outsmart Financial Crime With Shufti’s Real-Time, Intelligence-Driven AML

Financial institutions now face financial crime that moves at the speed of instant payments, driven by synthetic identities, cross-border networks, and fast-changing sanctions landscapes. That’s why traditional rule-based systems and fragmented watchlist data struggle to detect these patterns in time, which raises operational costs and regulatory exposure.

Shufti’s AML platform combines a proprietary AML data layer, global watchlists, extensive PEP coverages in the market, and an automation-first roadmap. This combination helps compliance teams cut false positives, reduce manual reviews, and build AML programmes that stay aligned with evolving expectations from major regulators.

Request a demo of Shufti to explore how AML programmes can scale with adaptable identity verification, precise screening and fewer manual reviews.

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