02.11.2026 21:50
Sanction Scanner becomes Complead as compliance and risk platform expands
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Istanbul-founded Sanction Scanner has announced its rebranding as Complead. The company is bringing AI-based services ranging from sanctions screening to transaction monitoring and fraud detection into a shared infrastructure.
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A wider product scope behind the new name
The 1 October announcement links the rebrand with a product range extending beyond sanctions-list screening. Complead aims to combine customer-risk assessment, transaction monitoring, fraud detection, beneficial-owner analysis and preparation of regulatory files within one infrastructure.
Founder and CEO Fatih Coşkun says Sanction Scanner described the original product, while the current scope is broader. The company reports serving more than 800 corporate customers in over 80 countries. These figures are presented as the company’s own operating data.
A local operation in New York
Following its London-based international structure, Complead says it has established a legal entity and local team in New York. The US operation forms part of growth plans serving financial institutions and fintech companies, drawing on existing international customer experience.
The release refers to processing more than 3,000 data points connected with over 220 countries. Combining sanctions screening, politically exposed person monitoring, transaction checks and customer-risk assessment is intended to help compliance teams coordinate related controls.
Automation claims and existing customers
Complead reports automatically resolving 77% of routine compliance cases through AI agents and its Fusion architecture, with false positives reduced by up to 97%. These are company performance claims rather than independently established results guaranteed for every institution or dataset.
The company emphasises traceable sources and decisions that can be explained during audits. Understanding the data behind a finding matters alongside automation. According to the announcement, existing Sanction Scanner customers will continue without service interruption, contract changes or mandatory infrastructure migration, allowing the rebrand to proceed without a separate migration burden.