Sanction Scanner Outgrows Its Name, Relaunches as complead for the U.S. Market

Serving 800+ companies in 80+ countries, the former Sanction Scanner is now an AI-native compliance, risk and fraud infrastructure with a New York team.

NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, September 30, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Founded in Istanbul six years ago, Sanction Scanner has grown into a global regtech player in the fight against financial crime. Today the company announced the next stage of its technology evolution and global growth strategy. Having expanded well beyond a “sanctions screening tool” into an AI-native compliance, risk and fraud infrastructure, the company will continue as complead.

Since its founding, the company has powered compliance for leading Turkish institutions including Türk Telekom, iyzico, Yemeksepeti, Togg, Midas and Hepsiburada, as well as global organizations such as NN, Unity, Zurich, Loomis, Stellantis, AirHelp and the United Nations. It now serves more than 800 enterprise customers in over 80 countries.

“Sanction Scanner Was a Snapshot. The Company Outgrew It.”

Speaking about the rebrand and the company’s global vision, complead Founder and CEO Fatih Coşkun said the change was driven by a major technological leap in the product:

“The name Sanction Scanner was right on the day we started, because all we did was screen sanctions lists. Today we build a customer’s risk profile at onboarding, monitor transaction flows in real time, catch fraud patterns, resolve ultimate beneficial owners and prepare the file that goes to the regulator. The name was a snapshot of our company, and the company has outgrown that snapshot. We no longer offer just compliance software. We offer an AI-native, unified compliance, risk and fraud infrastructure.”

New York: The Next Chapter of Global Growth

Building on its London-headquartered global structure, the company has formalized its presence in the United States, taking its U.S. operations directly to market with a newly established New York entity and a local team on the ground. Already established in the market through American customers such as APMEX, Hometap and Candex, complead will help U.S. financial institutions and fintechs meet a growing regulatory burden with its AI-powered infrastructure.

On the U.S. expansion, Coşkun said: “The United States is the world’s largest market for financial crime compliance spending. The dominant players are slow, expensive systems built decades ago. Compliance teams are caught between board pressure for efficiency and regulators’ demand for explainability. We are building exactly at the intersection of those two needs.”

A New Era in AI: Explainable, Defensible Compliance

complead argues that legacy rule-based software has reached the end of its life. Using its AI agents and Fusion architecture, the platform automatically resolves 77% of routine compliance cases. The system reduces false positives by up to 97% and never produces a decision that cannot be sourced or explained during an audit.

Coşkun confirmed that, under the complead brand, Sanction Scanner technology will continue to serve existing customers without interruption, contract changes or migration requirements. “Our goal is not to be a good alternative,” he said. “It is to be one of the companies that redefines how the world fights financial crime.”

About complead

complead (formerly Sanction Scanner) is a technology company providing AI-native compliance, risk and fraud infrastructure. Processing more than 3,000 data sources from over 220 countries in real time, complead unifies sanctions screening, PEP monitoring, customer risk assessment, and transaction monitoring and fraud prevention in a single integrated layer. With operations in Istanbul, London and New York, the company serves more than 800 enterprise customers in over 80 countries.

Fatih Coşkun
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