AML compliance leaders are plagued with investigator efficiency concerns, high false positives on sanctions alerts, and increasing levels of alerts they need to process each day. Clearing the fog of false positives that obscures suspicious activity is a massive challenge for compliance professionals. The view can be cleared with Match Exclusion.
Financial Institutions have to check transactions for signs of money laundering and other criminality to stay on the right side of the law. But false positive results often obscure criminal activity from view.
The challenge of identifying and blocking suspicious transactions is further complicated by business priorities: exceptional customer service, speedy, high volume transactions and business growth.
What’s the scale of the problem?
According to a joint 2017 study by Dow Jones and SWIFT, compliance departments report three closely interlinked challenges:
- High number of false positives: Over 70% of respondents are concerned with an increase of alerts from OFAC and the EU 50% Rule in the next 12 months
- Staff shortages, inadequate or outdated technology, and too many false positives represented the top three concerns for AML professionals
- Legacy systems: Nearly half of firms surveyed said their current technology is inadequate, insufficient or outdated,
How can BAE Systems help financial institutions address this problem?
Our NetReveal® Transaction Filtering solution with Match Exclusion technology reduces false positives of transaction alerts on average of 40% – 60%. It can help financial institutions achieve:
- Improved detection effectiveness through substantially lower false positives and increased true matches
- Increased investigator efficiency – less alerts need to be saved, alert tables and UI performance streamlined for faster decisions and disposition
- Transformational cost savings
Is this feature unique to BAE Systems?

How Match Exclusion helps:

Infopaper: How Match Exclusion is Revolutionising Watch List Management Compliance
Infopaper: How Match Exclusion Technology Improves WLM Efficiency
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