London, [17th August 2026] – Equifax, the global data, analytics, and technology company, has launched Automatic Watchlist Monitoring (AWM), a new monitoring solution to help regulated businesses in the UK safely automate and enhance their Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance in an intensifying Know-Your-Customer (KYC) regulatory environment.

By evolving AML compliance from a manual, periodic task into an automated process, the solution helps to identify risks and support compliance with greater precision and speed. It provides real-time screening for financially sanctioned individuals, politically exposed persons, relatives and close associates, and adverse media, helping address rising regulatory requirements. 

Key capabilities include:

1. Configurable rules and data accuracy: The ability to configure rules to give sight of matches which are important to your business, to allow AML matches to align to business risk appetite. 

2. Automated monitoring: Real-time screening of customer portfolios against global watchlists and adverse media, providing a robust, review-ready audit trail and helping reduce risk between data record updates. 

3. Seamless integration: Delivered via a single API and featuring a centralised dashboard for end-to-end case management.

4. Industry-leading data: AWM utilises anonymised data, providing access to millions of detailed and up-to-date risk profiles.

The launch of the solution, in partnership with NOTO, comes amid an intensifying regulatory environment with an explicit demand for ongoing monitoring of customer portfolios. Failure to comply carries severe financial and reputational risks for businesses, and the Equifax AWM solution provides a powerful new tool for businesses to help meet KYC obligations head-on.

Stephen Adams, Principal Consultant – Identity & Fraud Risk at Equifax UK, said: “The launch of Automatic Watchlist Monitoring further expands our identity and fraud prevention offerings to clients to help more businesses operate more quickly, safely and in confidence. We are committed to providing clients with the most advanced tools to help fight financial crime, replacing time-consuming manual checks with an intelligent, automated, real-time solution to enable our clients to onboard customers faster and reduce operational burdens in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.”

Automatic Watchlist Monitoring is now available for regulated businesses in the financial services, insurance, and gaming sectors in the UK.