LSEG Risk Intelligence announced the launch of World-Check Verify, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The cloud-native screening API is designed to integrate compliance directly into payment and onboarding workflows, offering instant and secure checks without affecting processing speed or the customer experience.
The solution aims to support financial institutions in meeting the demands of today’s rapidly evolving digital economy.
World-Check Verify is intended for the modern payment ecosystem as a lightweight, stateless screening solution that allows enterprises to operate at scale with speed, reliability, and privacy safeguards.
This capability addresses growing compliance demands driven by instant payments, embedded finance, and regulations such as the EU Instant Payments regulation.
David Wilson, Group Head of LSEG Risk Intelligence, said:
“World-Check Verify makes compliance invisible, with timely, trusted data ensuring screening happens in the background, at the precise moment it’s needed, so payments and onboarding remain instant and seamless. It sets a new standard for embedded compliance in a world where speed, trust, and accuracy must coexist.”
The solution provides real-time screening against LSEG’s World-Check data, allowing organisations to carry out embedded, low-latency checks within payment and onboarding workflows.
It offers a highly available infrastructure suitable for digital platforms and neobanks, while data sovereignty is maintained through a secure, scalable, cloud-native architecture powered by AWS.
The system is designed to ensure resilience and high performance for enterprise and cross-border operations, while also providing efficiency through flexible integration, precise screening, and policy alignment via advanced configuration options.
Alison Kay, VP and Managing Director of AWS UKI, said:
“This cloud-native solution scales instantly to meet demand spikes, reduces infrastructure overhead, and leverages advanced analytics to transform the manual workload burden that 77% of institutions struggle with into an automated, efficient workflow. It exemplifies how AWS’s cloud capabilities can help solve complex industry challenges so that financial institutions can innovate and scale their risk management operations with confidence, while maintaining the highest security standards.”
The launch follows LSEG’s 2025 Global Risk Intelligence Survey, which found that 77% of financial institutions cite manual review workload as a key barrier to compliance, 75% report excessive false positives from legacy systems, and 98% say real-time data is critical to their compliance workflows.
World-Check Verify aims to address these challenges by providing frictionless screening that does not compromise on accuracy, resilience, or security.
Whether verifying a new customer, screening a beneficiary, or monitoring a transaction, the solution delivers trusted screening to clients, helping organisations manage risk, reduce operational burden, and support compliance.
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