Provider profile · 2026 edition
Facctum review 2026: scores, pricing and alternatives.
A screening platform for customers and payments, with watchlist management that combines commercial, regulator and in-house lists.
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A screening platform for customers and payments, with watchlist management that combines commercial, regulator and in-house lists.
Facctum scores 2.9 out of 5 (58 out of 100) in the Buckingham Intelligence Sanctions and Adverse Media Screening Index 2026 and ranks 7 of 12. It is strongest for banks and payment firms wanting fast payment screening and a choice of hosting region, and its best criterion is screening coverage at 4 out of 5. Not published or not stated on the pages read: coverage, pricing, security and clients and matching and alert handling.
Scores from the Sanctions and Adverse Media Screening Index 2026.
No award in the Sanctions and Adverse Media Screening Index 2026.
| Segment | Score out of 100 | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| For payment and e-money firms | 55 | 9 of 12 |
| For banks and lenders | 65 | 6 of 12 |
| For crypto firms | 54 | 9 of 12 |
The score out of 5 is the overall score out of 100 divided by 20. Leader goes to the top three overall, Best for to the first in each segment, and Top rated for to a score of 5 out of 5 on a criterion. Awards cannot be bought.
Where it scores best, and where to check closely, as shown in each ranking.
Banks and payment firms wanting fast payment screening and a choice of hosting region.
What Facctum publishes on its own pages, read on 26 October 2026.
A screening platform for customers and payments, with watchlist management that combines commercial, regulator and in-house lists. It publishes a five-minute sanctions update, several security certifications and a choice of more than 30 hosting regions. It publishes no prices, adverse media screening or named clients.
| Fact | What the provider publishes |
|---|---|
| Coverage | Customer Screening with continuous monitoring, Payment Screening ("Screen transactions in real time for sanctions, AML, PEP, and fraud before processing") and Watchlist Management. Adverse media not published. |
| Pricing | Not published on the pages read. |
| Data | "Sanctions records from regulators are updated within 5 minutes"; "Our clients manage over 5 million watchlist records on our platform". No list count. |
| Matching | "Attribute-weighted scoring" with "explainable match decisions" at "~80 ms"; "Our AI learns from previous outcomes to reduce false positives"; "detailed audit trails". |
| Integration | Web UI and REST APIs with OAuth 2.0 and single sign-on; "available in over 30 regions worldwide". |
| Security and clients | "ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, and SOC 2 certified" (SOC 2 type not stated); Trust Center at facctum.trust.site. No clients named on the pages read. |
| Date read | 26 October 2026 |
A fact that is not published is scored as not offered or, for a fee, as if it were high. It is never estimated.
Facts read on 26 October 2026 from: facctum.com, facctum.com/customer-screening, facctum.com/payment-screening, facctum.trust.site.
Each score with the evidence behind it.
Each criterion is scored 0 to 5 against the best published offer in the Sanctions and Adverse Media Screening Index. 0 means not offered or not published. How it is scored
The other providers in the same ranking, ordered by score.
| Provider | Score out of 5 | Rank | Strongest for |
|---|---|---|---|
| ComplyAdvantage | 4.5 | 1 of 12 | Payment and e-money firms wanting full coverage with a published monthly price table |
| dilisense | 4.0 | 2 of 12 | Smaller payment and crypto firms wanting low published per-check prices |
| Castellum.AI | 3.8 | 3 of 12 | US banks and fintechs wanting very fresh data and automated alert review |
| sanctions.io | 3.8 | 4 of 12 | Fintechs and crypto firms wanting hourly list updates and quick API set-up |
| LSEG World-Check | 3.4 | 5 of 12 | Banks and larger firms wanting an established risk database with a free trial |
| OpenSanctions | 3.1 | 6 of 12 | Crypto and payment firms wanting the clearest published per-query prices and traceable sources |
| Dow Jones Risk & Compliance | 2.8 | 8 of 12 | Banks and investment firms needing ownership data on sanctioned parties |
| Napier AI | 2.7 | 9 of 12 | Banks wanting screening and monitoring on one platform with strong security credentials |
| Sanction Scanner | 2.6 | 10 of 12 | Smaller firms wanting one plan for screening, adverse media and daily monitoring |
| Ripjar | 2.4 | 11 of 12 | Large banks wanting entity-based screening across many languages |
| Moody's Grid | 1.6 | 12 of 12 | Banks wanting a broad risk database to feed their own screening systems |
Side by side on every criterion, fact and award.
Head-to-head comparisons cover pairs within the top five of each ranking. Facctum is compared with its alternatives in the table above.
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