AML, KYC & Financial Crime
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Encompass Corporation

Encompass Corporation sells EC360, a corporate digital identity platform that banks use to verify corporate clients for know your customer (KYC) onboarding, due diligence, refresh and remediation. It pulls data and documents in real time from corporate and beneficial ownership registries, regulators, stock exchanges and data vendors, more than 175 public data products in all, joins them with information the client supplies through a secure portal, resolves conflicts, unwraps ownership to the ultimate beneficial owners and screens the people it finds against sanctions, politically exposed person and adverse media lists. Each profile links every data point to its source document and goes to the bank by API or file, into its own client lifecycle management, customer relationship management or core systems.

AI sits in two places. Generative AI document processing extracts ownership and KYC data from filings and client documents, using an embedded large language model or the bank's preferred one, and an EC360 server for the Model Context Protocol lets a bank's own agents run KYC searches, policy rules and screening through EC360 with the source trail attached. EC Review applies the same automation to bulk KYC refresh and remediation. Founded in Australia in 2012, Encompass has offices in Glasgow, London, Amsterdam, New York and Sydney, bought ING's CoorpID and Blacksmith KYC platforms, and names BNP Paribas, ING, RBC Capital Markets, NAB and SEB among the banks using it, with BNP Paribas leading its latest funding round.

Last VerifiedOctober 12, 2026
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Founded
2012
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Categories
aml-kyc-financial-crime
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 9 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI Centrality
CC on AI CentralityArtificial intelligence is present but peripheral: a feature layer on a product whose value stands without it.
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Rules and integrations do most of the work: EC360 runs searches directed by each bank's risk policy, applies source hierarchy and matching rules to resolve conflicts, and calculates ownership from shareholding percentages. Generative AI handles one stage, extracting data from complex documents into the profile, and the server for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) exposes the platform to a bank's own models rather than adding a model of its own. Without the document extraction, the collation, ownership and screening work would still run.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
BB on Autonomy and Oversight ModelA written commitment that the models work alongside human judgment, with real review surfaces, short of the full control structure: commonly the threshold at which the system stops or what happens after it is wrong.
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The AI policy says AI output is not treated as fact without verification and that human oversight applies where AI informs decisions. In EC360 and EC Review, validated profiles go straight through to the bank's systems or to analyst review where deeper investigation is needed, and the bank's own policy decides which. No threshold is published for when extracted data needs a second look. Exceptions are highlighted for investigation, and every extracted data point links back to its source document.

Model Risk Management and Transparency
BB on Model Risk Management and TransparencyReal transparency mechanisms are published, such as per alert explainability, confidence scoring or split testing, without the validation package or supervisory mapping behind them.
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Every extracted data point links back to the original document, every action is tracked, and profiles carry full data lineage and provenance, so a reviewer can check where each attribute came from. No extraction accuracy, error rate or validation result is published, and the AI policy itself says AI output may not be fully accurate. The MCP server returns deterministic, source linked results to a bank's own AI, which keeps that path auditable. A bank can also set which approved sources each key attribute is taken from, so a profile follows its own data policy and every attribute can be cited back to its origin for an auditor.

Operational and Outcome Evidence
BB on Operational and Outcome EvidenceVendor aggregate claims with real figures, or audited scale disclosures from a publicly listed company.
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The one quantified outcome, a 32 percent end to end onboarding time saving in year one, comes from 100 profiles at a Tier 1 bank Encompass does not name, with research conducted with Chartis Research. The named banks carry the rest: BNP Paribas, ING, RBC Capital Markets, NAB and SEB use EC360, BNP Paribas led Encompass's latest funding round and will deploy corporate digital identity, and Lori Messer of RBC Capital Markets explains on video how the bank reframed onboarding around it.

AI Safety and Data Stewardship
BB on AI Safety and Data StewardshipA categorical stewardship commitment is published without the retention schedule or the engineering detail behind it.
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Data sent to the embedded document extraction provider is deleted from that provider's model according to the bank's own retention policy, on a deletion timeframe the bank configures, and a bank can route extraction to its own preferred model instead. Encompass does not state whether client data trains any model or how one bank's profiles are kept apart from another's. The deletion commitment at the model layer, with the bank setting the timeframe, is the boundary it does publish.

Regulatory and Compliance
GLBA and Data Privacy Posture
CC on GLBA and Data Privacy PostureA standard privacy policy that covers the website rather than the service, or silence on a product that touches limited consumer data.
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The published privacy statement covers Encompass's website and marketing rather than the bank and client data EC360 processes, and no data processing terms or subprocessor list are public. What the trust center does show is data retention procedures and deletion of customer data when a customer leaves, and documents sent to the embedded extraction model are deleted on a timeframe the bank configures.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
AA on Security Certifications and Trust CenterCertifications named with their type and presented as retrievable artifacts, usually through a trust portal a buyer can open without asking.
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Encompass's trust center, open to any visitor, lists SOC 2 Type II and Type I reports, its ISO 27001 certificate and statement of applicability, more than twenty policies and yearly penetration test reports for EC Public Automation and EC Private Outreach, with monitored controls shown live and documents released on request. It was recertified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 in May 2026 and completed its SOC 2 Type II audit in December 2025.

Regulatory Status and Licensure
CC on Regulatory Status and LicensureThe regulatory position is unstated. Most vendors in this index are technology suppliers and being unlicensed is the correct posture, so this grade records silence about the posture, not a missing license.
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Encompass states no license, register entry or supervisory relationship of its own, the normal posture for a data and software supplier whose bank customers carry the obligations. EC360 is built to support compliance with Financial Action Task Force standards, the EU anti money laundering directives and the regimes of the Financial Conduct Authority and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
BB on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureAn independent demographic evaluation the vendor has submitted to, such as the NIST face evaluation class, or a governance framework with named process behind it.
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Encompass announced on 1 October 2026 that it had completed its ISO/IEC 42001:2023 audit for an AI management system and been recommended for certification, with the certificate still to be issued. No fairness evaluation is published.

Its AI policy commits staff to identify and mitigate bias in data and algorithms, to monitor and audit for bias and performance anomalies, and to disclose AI use where it informs decisions, on a product whose AI reads corporate documents rather than scoring people.

AI Liability and Recourse
CC on AI Liability and RecourseMechanisms that enable challenge, such as audit trails and source traceability, with nothing standing behind the output and no route for the person affected.
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The AI policy states that AI output may not be fully accurate and will not be treated as fact without verification, which leaves the decision and its consequences with the bank. What Encompass offers toward a challenge is provenance: each data point traces to its source document and every action is logged. Nothing addresses a corporate client wrongly flagged through extracted data, though the client can keep its own information up to date through the private outreach vault.

Integration and Deployment
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
BB on Model Supply Chain DisclosureSubstantial partial disclosure, or a chain that is structurally short: an explicit in house build, on premise deployment, per customer instances, or zero retention at the model layer.
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Document extraction runs through an unnamed large language model and extraction provider, connected by secure API and its software development kit, and a bank can substitute its preferred model. Data supplied to that provider is deleted on the bank's retention timeframe, which limits what the model layer keeps. The data chain is named: registries, regulators and stock exchanges, plus partners including LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Dun & Bradstreet and S&P Global.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
BB on Core Systems and Integration DepthNamed systems or a documented public API, with the depth or the production evidence left open.
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EC360 delivers profiles by API, as flat files or directly into client lifecycle management, customer relationship management and core systems, and Encompass says it runs in production with Pegasystems and Capgemini's Perpetual KYC Catalyst. The MCP server exposes searches across more than 160 global registries, workflow triggers, screening and document retrieval to a bank's AI environment. Data partners include LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Dun & Bradstreet and S&P Global, and consulting partners include Accenture, Capgemini and EY.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
CC on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyCloud only with nothing stated, which is the category norm.
Vendor Published

Encompass names no cloud provider, region or residency option for a client base that spans Europe, Canada and Australia. EC360 is fully hosted software as a service, run across multiple cloud environments with data encrypted at rest and in transit.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and engagement runs through a demo form, which is the norm in this index.
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Encompass publishes no price, tier or unit of charge for EC360, EC Review or the MCP server, and buying runs through a demo request. The return on investment calculator Encompass offers estimates savings, which supports a business case rather than a budget.

Institution and Segment Coverage
AA on Institution and Segment CoverageThe financial segments served are named and each carries its own maintained material, whether the coverage is broad or deliberately narrow.
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Commercial, corporate, investment and challenger banks each get their own offer, with dedicated pages for corporate and investment banking, business banking and challenger banks, and the named users span Europe, Canada and Australia. Correspondent banking and enhanced due diligence are covered alongside standard onboarding. Law firms and corporations also use the data automation, but the product is built around corporate banking.

Beyond onboarding, banks use it to clear sanctions alerts on cross border payments, pulling the ownership of payers and payees so a held payment can be released or reported quickly, and managed service providers run KYC for their own clients on the platform.

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