KYC, third-party due diligence and transaction monitoring

Module · Ethics, Conduct and Third Parties

Reports are up and closure times are worsening. Third parties are screened once at onboarding and effectively never again.

Prophesee Ethics scores the case at intake, assembles KYC and third-party diligence instead of requesting it, re-screens continuously, and watches the payments going out to the parties it has screened.

Entity resolutionAlert triageContinuous monitoringOwnership traversalEvidence and lineage
See it running

Ethics: a day in the life

One working day inside Ethics, from the morning forecast to the evidence that the intervention worked.

Ethics: a day in the life
The shift

Case volume is rising. Closure is getting slower.

Reports are up and closure times are worsening. Third parties are screened once at onboarding and effectively never again. And the prosecutor now asks directly whether compliance has the data and the models to see any of it.

28
Days median case closure, up 33% year on year
16%
Substantiation rate on retaliation reports
14%
Of E&C teams have audited more than half their third parties

Sources: NAVEX 2026 Whistleblowing and Incident Management Benchmark (4,052 organisations, 2.37m reports) · Ethisphere AI, Governance, Risk and Ethics report, 2025 · DOJ Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs, Sep 2024.

A new approach

Evidence at intake. Diligence that never stops.

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Today · Case management intake

An anonymous report names a person by first name and function. Identifying the right one across HR, procurement and access records is manual and slow.

Score the case at intake

Severity, substantiation likelihood and cycle-time risk predicted from your own case history, so the cases that matter get the senior investigator first.

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Today · Declarations register

A declared directorship and a supplier ultimate owner are held in different systems with no link, so a conflict is only found when someone reports it.

KYC and diligence, assembled not requested

Ownership chains, sanctions and PEP hits, adverse media, financials and litigation pulled into one assessment, then kept current as ownership and designations change.

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Today · AP run and spot checks

Payments to third parties are approved on the invoice, not on what is known about the counterparty. A changed owner or a new bank account is not part of the check.

Watch the payment, not just the party

Every outbound payment screened against the vendor graph: a changed beneficial owner, new bank details, or a jurisdiction the contract does not cover.

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Today · Investigator judgement

Severity, routing and resourcing are decided from the intake summary. Anonymous reports, now the majority in Europe, make that judgement harder.

Model the programme response

Test what added training, tighter thresholds or a targeted investigation uplift would do to closure time and substantiation before you fund it.

From challenge to decision

Turning investigations into intelligence

Problem: Entity resolution
What produces it today: Case management intake

An anonymous report names a person by first name and function. Identifying the right one across HR, procurement and access records is manual and slow.

Engine: nexus icon Nexusforesight icon Foresight
The applications that replace it: KYC And Diligence PackConflict Of Interest
Problem: Alert triage
What produces it today: Investigator judgement

Severity, routing and resourcing are decided from the intake summary. Anonymous reports, now the majority in Europe, make that judgement harder.

Engine: foresight icon Foresight
The applications that replace it: Case Severity At IntakeAdverse Media Watch
Problem: Continuous monitoring
What produces it today: Onboarding diligence

Third-party diligence is a point in time. Ownership changes, new designations and adverse media after onboarding are not picked up.

Engine: pulse icon Pulse
The applications that replace it: Continuous Re-ScreeningAdverse Media Watch
Problem: Ownership traversal
What produces it today: Declarations register

A declared directorship and a supplier ultimate owner are held in different systems with no link, so a conflict is only found when someone reports it.

Engine: nexus icon Nexus
The applications that replace it: Ownership ChainsConflict Of Interest
Problem: Evidence and lineage
What produces it today: Manual collection

Building the investigation file means requesting data from six teams, under privilege and need to know, with a chain of custody that will survive challenge.

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The applications that replace it: KYC And Diligence PackModel Accuracy Evidence
What becomes possible

14 AI applications that could be relevant

A sample of what becomes possible on the decision layer, not a fixed list: each application draws on the same data foundation and audit trail, and new ones are configured on the engines, not built from scratch.

Foresight
Case Severity At Intake

Severity and substantiation likelihood scored before anyone reads the case.

Foresight
Closure Time Prediction

Predicts which cases will miss their deadline while there is still time to act.

Foresight
Retaliation Risk

Flags reporters whose treatment after a report starts to look like retaliation.

Foresight
Third-Party Risk Tiering

Which third parties earn enhanced diligence, scored on sector, geography, ownership and payment behaviour.

Nexus
KYC And Diligence Pack

Sanctions, ownership, financials, litigation and media pulled into one narrative report.

Nexus
Conflict Of Interest

Links employees, suppliers and declared interests to surface hidden connections.

Nexus
Ownership Chains

Follows the ownership chain to the ultimate owner across registries and names.

Nexus
Third-Party Onboarding

Beneficial ownership, sanctions, PEP and adverse media resolved at onboarding, with the evidence pack attached.

Pulse
Adverse Media Watch

Multi-language media monitoring, deduplicated and scored for relevance.

Pulse
Continuous Re-Screening

Ownership change, a new designation or fresh media reopens the file itself.

Pulse
Payment Screening At Source

The payment held before it leaves, when the counterparty no longer matches what was diligenced.

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Vendor Payment Monitoring

Payments screened against the vendor graph: a changed owner, new bank details or a jurisdiction the contract does not cover.

Horizon
Investigator Capacity Plan

Model caseload against investigator capacity before the backlog forms.

Nexus
Model Accuracy Evidence

Documented accuracy, precision and data access for the models you rely on.

How work changes

A day in a continuously vigilant organisation

Or watch this day as a film.

Today: Cases triaged on the intake summary and a feel for it.

With Prophesee:
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Triage with evidence behind it

Overnight cases scored for severity, substantiation likelihood and cycle-time risk before anyone reads them.

Today: Diligence requested, then waited on for three weeks.

With Prophesee:
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Diligence assembled, not requested

Ownership, sanctions, PEP, adverse media, financials and litigation in one narrative, sources attached.

Today: Onboarding diligence is a point in time and never repeats.

With Prophesee:
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A file reopens itself

A third party onboarded two years ago changes ownership. It is re-screened without a human trigger.

Today: The answer to the regulator is a description, not evidence.

With Prophesee:
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The prosecutor's question, answered

Data access and model accuracy documented rather than asserted.

Conduct risk is easier to manage when it is seen early.

Screen the party, watch the payment

We agree the metric and the baseline in week one, and measure the result on your data.