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AML Case Management and Risk Scoring

The analyst-facing side of AML: case workflow, risk scoring and the audit trail an examiner reviews months later.

An alert is not a decision. Between a transaction monitoring system flagging something and a filed STR or a cleared case, there is a workflow: an analyst investigates, a risk score gets applied or adjusted, a decision gets made, and all of it has to be reconstructable by an examiner who was not there when it happened.

This is that layer: risk scoring, case assignment, investigation tooling and the audit trail, separate from the detection engine covered on the transaction monitoring page and the alerting logic itself.

What We Offer

Risk scoring engine

Customer and transaction risk scoring based on factors your compliance team defines, adjustable as risk typologies change without a code deployment.

Case management workflow

Alert assignment, investigation notes, escalation paths and disposition, built around how your compliance team actually works rather than a generic ticketing system relabelled for AML.

Audit trail and evidence packs

Every decision, the data behind it, the analyst who made it, and the reasoning, retained in a form an examiner can review without reconstructing it after the fact.

Regulatory reporting handoff

Cases that result in an STR or CTR flow directly into the goAML reporting pipeline (see the dedicated page) rather than requiring re-entry.

How We Help

The problem we see most often is a monitoring system that generates alerts well but has no real workflow behind it: a spreadsheet tracking case status, disposition reasoning kept in someone’s notes, no consistent record of why a case was cleared. That works until an examination, and then it is the single biggest source of findings.

Case management also has to survive staff turnover. If the reasoning behind a decision only exists in one analyst’s memory, the institution has a gap the moment that analyst leaves, regardless of how good the original decision was.

Our Approach

We design the case record so it stands on its own for an examiner: the alert, the data reviewed, the decision, and the reasoning, without requiring anyone to explain it verbally.

Risk scoring logic is kept configurable by the compliance team, not locked inside code that requires an engineering change for every typology update.

Technologies We Use

PythonJavaPostgreSQLKafka

Industries We Support

Banking & Fintech

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Questions

AML Case Management FAQs

How is this different from your transaction monitoring service?
Transaction monitoring is the detection engine that generates alerts from transaction patterns. This is what happens after an alert exists: assigning it, investigating it, scoring risk, and recording the decision. Most institutions need both, and they integrate directly.
Can compliance staff adjust risk scoring without engineering involvement?
Yes, that is a deliberate design goal. Risk typologies change faster than most institutions can get an engineering change deployed, so scoring rules are built to be configurable by the compliance team.
What does the audit trail actually capture?
The alert, the data the analyst reviewed, the decision made, the reasoning recorded, and who made it, retained in a form that reconstructs the full picture for an examiner without requiring anyone to explain it after the fact.
Does this integrate with our existing transaction monitoring system?
In most cases yes, through the alert data the monitoring system already generates. Where we also build the monitoring engine, the two are designed together; where we are adding case management to an existing monitoring system, we integrate against its alert output.

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