Transaction Filtering
that stops a payment
before it posts

DetectX® checks every incoming and outgoing payment as it happens. It screens the counterparty against sanctions lists and your own blacklists, tests the payment against the rules your compliance team sets, and holds anything suspicious for your analyst to decide. Clean payments go straight through.

  1. 1Screen
  2. 2Stop
  3. 3Decide
  4. 4Platform tour
A payment the filter stopped: the Online queue it lands in with its order number and what matched, the alert opened on the list entry its creditor matched, and the customer's payment history the decision is made against.
DetectX - One Platform. Total Compliance (FINAL CAPTIONS)

One Platform. Total Compliance.

The DetectX® Approach

Transaction Filtering screens incoming and outgoing payments in real time, against sanctions and blacklists and against your own business rules. Instant Payment Transaction Filtering runs on the same engines.

Two engines, one decision. Every payment message from your core banking system is checked twice: the counterparty against sanctions lists and your blacklists, and the payment against your business rules. A hit on either holds the payment. Everything else goes straight through.

Your core banking systemA Payment Is Sent Or ReceivedThe message arrives in ISO 20022 XML, incoming or outgoing.
Directionin or out
Partiesnames, addresses
Payment detailsamount, accounts
DetectX® Transaction FilteringTwo Engines, One Payment
Name ScreeningThe counterparty against sanctions and blacklists, as a similarity score against your threshold.
Business RulesThe payment against the rules you define: amounts, countries, counterparties, PEP status.
No hitReleasedProcessed without any intervention.
HitPayment StoppedHeld in the core system and raised as an alert in AlertViewer.
Back to the coreThe Result Is ReturnedHit or no hit, for post-processing there.
Your analystWorks The AlertThrough the workflow you configure.

Key Benefits & Impact

Stopping a payment is easy. Releasing the right ones is the work.

A filter that holds too much stalls good payments, and one that clears too widely lets the wrong one through. DetectX® checks every payment before it posts, lets clean ones go straight through, and keeps every clearance tied to the exact pairing your analyst cleared.

Nothing Posts Unchecked

Every payment checked before it moves.

Incoming and outgoing payments are screened before they post: who is being paid on the way out, who is paying on the way in. A hit holds the payment until your analyst decides.

Instant Payment
Good Payments Keep Moving

Only a hit stops a payment.

A payment with no hit goes straight through, with no intervention. Your analysts spend their time on the payments that need a decision, and customers aren’t kept waiting on the rest.

Name Screening Intelligence
Your Policy, Enforced

Your rules, on every payment.

Your compliance team writes the rules once, from the payment fields, customer data and tables such as country risk. The rule set runs on every payment.

Business Rules Design & Engine
Cleared Stays Cleared

No holding the same payment twice.

When your analyst clears a match, it goes on the White List. Later payments between the same customer and counterparty go through without a new alert.

Workflows
Never Cleared Too Widely

A clearance covers one pairing, nothing more.

Each White List entry holds the customer and the list entry or rule, and optionally the counterparty’s IBAN. A different list entry, rule or account raises a new alert.

The DetectX® Platform
Ready For The Auditor

Nothing leaves the White List without a reason.

Every hold is worked in AlertViewer. Deleting a White List entry needs a written comment, so every change to what is cleared can be shown later.

Name Screening

Why DetectX®

Most payment filters stop the payment. DetectX® clears it once.

  • Two checks, one passLists and rules checked as separate stepsCounterparty screened and rules tested in one check, before it postsBusiness Rules Design & Engine
  • Clean payments keep movingEvery held payment released by handNo hit, no hold: clean payments go straight throughInstant payment screening
  • Cleared onceThe same counterparty held again next weekA cleared match goes on the White ListHow clearing works
  • Never cleared too widelyLast week’s clearance assumed to cover this oneEach clearance tied to the customer, the list entry or rule, and the accountThe White List
  • The reason on file“Same as before”, in an emailRemoving a clearance needs a written commentThe audit trail
  • One platform, not another systemA separate filter with its own queueShares the AlertViewer with Name Screening and its rules engine with Transaction MonitoringThe DetectX® platform

How Transaction Filtering Works

Try it yourself: five steps, from a stopped payment to a recorded decision.

DetectX® screens every payment your core banking system sends it, before the payment moves. Names are checked against your sanction and blacklists, the payment against your business rules, and a payment with a hit is stopped for your analyst. Every step is yours to drive.

Illustrative exampleInvented Names & Data

Explore the DetectX® Platform

Start with Transaction Filtering. Add what you need next.

Every DetectX® solution runs on the same underlying platform, sharing its capabilities, AlertViewer and audit trail. Pick one to see what it does.

All solutions

Transaction Filtering FAQs

What compliance teams usually ask before they choose Transaction Filtering.

Something we have not covered?Talk to our team

Transaction filtering is the check of each payment, before it posts, against sanctions lists, internal blacklists and a bank’s own payment rules, so that a payment to or from a listed party is stopped in time. DetectX® Transaction Filtering screens the counterparty in every incoming and outgoing payment, tests the payment against your business rules in the same check, and holds it for your analyst on a hit. Clean payments go straight through, and instant payments are filtered on the same engines.

Transaction filtering decides on one payment as it happens; transaction monitoring looks for patterns across a customer’s transactions over time. In DetectX®, Transaction Filtering checks only the payment being made, in real time, and holds it on a hit. Transaction Monitoring analyses a customer’s transactions over a period in a periodic batch run, for example daily, and raises an alert for review. Both use the same rules engine and AlertViewer.

DetectX® screens the counterparty, not your own customer. On an outgoing payment, it screens the beneficiary’s name and address. On an incoming payment, it screens the sender’s name and the remittance information. Your customer is already screened by Name Screening when they are loaded into DetectX®. Payment messages arrive from your core banking system in ISO 20022 format.

Your compliance team builds rules from fields in the payment and the customer data, and from tables you maintain, such as country risk or stop words. Typical rules hold a payment above an amount for a given currency, a payment to a counterparty in a high-risk country, a payment to a blacklisted counterparty, bank or account, all offshore or SWIFT payments, or a payment by a customer who is a foreign PEP. Conditions combine with AND and OR, and the rules are grouped into a rule set that runs on every payment.

No. A clearance covers one pairing. When your analyst clears a match, DetectX® stores the customer together with the list entry or the rule that was hit, and, if your bank switches the setting on, the counterparty’s IBAN. Only later payments matching that entry go through without a new alert; a different list entry, rule or account is held again. Deleting a White List entry needs a written comment.

Transaction Filtering · DetectX®

See Transaction Filtering in a demo

Book a demonstration on your own payment flows: which transactions reach the filter, what the participants are checked against, and what an analyst sees when one is held.

Stopped before posting
Suspicious incoming and outgoing transactions held before they are booked.
Your lists, your rules
Freely definable risk person databases and whitelists, with the Rule Designer applied in the same check.
One platform
Delivered into the AlertViewer, with integrated link analysis and MediaSearch alongside.