AML & KYC engineering

AML compliance software,
engineered into your stack.

An AML compliance platform is only worth what it does in production. TrustChange builds bespoke AML and KYC compliance software — screening, monitoring, Travel Rule and audit evidence — inside your product, on your infrastructure and under your keys. One EU engineering team owns the build and the proof, so your reviewer reads working evidence instead of slides.

  • EU-based engineers
  • MiCA-ready architecture
  • Your repos, your keys

Control stack

What our integrated AML and KYC compliance software covers

Six domains, one control plane. Each domain is a real subsystem with an owner and an audit trail — built once, tested often, reused across every surface your AML compliance system needs to protect.

  • 01

    Identity and onboarding

    KYC and KYB checks sit behind one interface. Swapping a vendor stays a config change, not a rebuild.

    • Vendor-neutral layer
    • Risk scoring hooks
    • Re-check scheduling
  • 02

    Screening

    Sanctions, PEP and wallet risk checks run on the live path. Each hit lands in a review queue with its reason.

    • List refresh jobs
    • Wallet risk lookups
    • Reason codes stored
  • 03

    Travel Rule

    Originator and beneficiary data travels with the transfer. Both legs are recorded and replayable.

    • Protocol adapters
    • Counterparty checks
    • Fallback handling
  • 04

    Transaction monitoring

    Rules and thresholds you can edit without a release. Alerts carry the data that triggered them.

    • Editable rule sets
    • Case management
    • Alert replay
  • 05

    Data governance

    GDPR duties turn into concrete jobs. Retention, erasure and access requests run as code, not as promises.

    • EU data residency
    • Retention windows
    • Erasure workflows
  • 06

    Audit evidence

    Every control writes a trail. Your reviewer reads the log instead of asking your engineers.

    • Append-only logs
    • Change history
    • Export packs

Pipeline

Where each AML/KYC check sits on the transaction path

A payment or transfer passes through the same gates every time. Order matters, and so does what each gate writes down for the audit log. This is the shape every AML/CFT compliance software delivery ends up in.

Control path: onboarding, then screening, then the decision, then monitoring, then the record. Every step writes its reason to the log.

Building the venue itself? Start with crypto exchange development, our payment gateway engineering work, or the on- and off-ramp integration path where AML controls sit next to liquidity and settlement.

Delivery sequence

How we deliver BSA/AML compliance software

Four steps, in this order. Compliance work runs inside the product backlog — no separate phase bolted on at the end, no big-bang release of an untested AML compliance platform.

Need people rather than a project? Compare dedicated development teams, nearshore staff augmentation or a fixed-scope build. Deciding whether to build at all? Start with CTO advisory.

  1. 01

    Control mapping

    1–2 weeks

    Your duties become a control list. Each control names an owner, a system and a piece of evidence.

  2. 02

    Gap review

    1 week

    We test what exists today. You get a ranked list of gaps with the effort behind each one.

  3. 03

    Build and harden

    Runs with delivery

    Controls ship inside the product backlog. Nothing waits for a separate compliance phase.

  4. 04

    Evidence pack

    Before audit

    Logs, diagrams and test results collected in one place. Handed to your auditor or counsel.

Questions

AML compliance software: buyer questions

Six answers up front on vendor model, existing systems, AI, frameworks, integration and the first step. Bring the rest to the call.

Related reading: the full engineering services catalogue and how we deliver.

Are you an AML compliance software vendor or a services firm?

We are an engineering partner, not a packaged product. TrustChange designs and builds bespoke AML and KYC compliance software that runs inside your stack, on your infrastructure, under your keys. You own the code, the data and the controls at the end. That means no per-seat licence lock-in and no shared multi-tenant database — but it also means we take on delivery, not a one-week install.

Do you replace an existing AML compliance platform or extend one?

Both patterns are common. We often start with a control map and gap review of what you already run — vendor screening tools, a KYC provider, a home-grown case queue — then harden the integrations, add the missing pieces (Travel Rule adapters, rule editors, evidence exports) and unify them behind one interface. When the underlying system cannot meet MiCA, PSD2 or Travel Rule expectations, we design a replacement that migrates on the live path.

How do you handle AI in AML compliance software?

We use machine-learning models where they earn their keep — risk scoring, alert triage, entity resolution — and only inside an explainable pipeline. Every automated decision writes the features, the model version and the threshold that produced it to the audit log, so a reviewer can reproduce it. We do not sell AI-powered AML compliance software as a black box, and we never let a model make the final decision on a suspicious activity report.

Which frameworks do you design AML/CFT compliance software against?

MiCA and the EU AML package, PSD2 and SCA, the FATF Travel Rule and GDPR most often. In the US context we work to BSA / AML expectations — CIP, CDD, suspicious activity monitoring and record-keeping — as an engineering partner alongside your compliance officer. Our compliance overview page lists how each one lands in the build.

How is your integrated AML and KYC compliance software structured?

One control plane with pluggable adapters. Identity and KYB checks, sanctions and PEP lists, wallet risk lookups, Travel Rule counterparties and transaction monitoring rules all speak to the same case and evidence store. Swapping any single provider is a config change, not a rebuild — that is what integrated means in practice, and it is why buyers choose a bespoke build over a rigid AML compliance system.

How small can the first engagement be?

A control map and gap review. It takes a few weeks and fits inside a fixed-scope agreement. You keep the artefacts — control catalogue, data-flow diagrams, ranked gap list — even if we never build together. Most buyers use it to brief their board, their auditor or the next AML compliance vendor they evaluate.

Book a discovery call for AML compliance software

Tell us what you run today, who regulates it and where the pressure sits — KYC, Travel Rule, monitoring or evidence. We come back with a control map, a ranked gap list and a costed plan for the build. No demo theatre.