WorldWatch Plus® Joins NICE Actimize’s X-Sight Marketplace, the Industry’s First Financial Crime Management Ecosystem

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Partnering with the X-Sight Marketplace, WorldWatch Plus® will offer capabilities around content gathering and data to improve customer due diligence processes

HOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Helping financial services organizations keep up with a changing market landscape, NICE Actimize, a NICE business (Nasdaq: NICE) and the leader in autonomous financial crime management, today announced that WorldWatch Plus® has joined the X-Sight Marketplace, the industry’s first financial crime risk management-focused ecosystem designed to assist financial services organizations evaluate new point solutions and move to stay on top of a challenging regulatory and criminal environment.

The X-Sight Marketplace leverages the X-Sight Platform-as-a-Service and further expands the functionality offered by the platform. The NICE Actimize X-Sight Platform-as-a-Service offers a single, unified, cost-effective way for financial service organizations to rapidly innovate and to introduce new services while supporting best-in-class financial crime, risk and compliance management capabilities.

WorldWatch Plus®, known for its AI-powered KYC & Risk Management Content Solutions, will offer Sanctions, Watch List, PEP, and Adverse Media content solutions to the X-Sight Marketplace community. The WorldWatch Plus® tool will use AI and machine learning to bring the NICE Actimize marketplace community strong capabilities around gathering content for an improved detection process. NICE Actimize customers could utilize this capability to improve their CDD processes in conjunction with the recent release of CDD-X.

Technology providers such as WorldWatch Plus®, that partner with NICE Actimize’s X-Sight Marketplace ecosystem, are reviewed for their ability to complement financial crime and compliance solutions. Once approved, software and service providers become available to the NICE Actimize community via the X-Sight Marketplace. FSOs can quickly browse through X-Sight Marketplace solution categories to find scalable options that solve their unique business problems.

“WorldWatch Plus® appreciates this partnership with NICE Actimize as we bring innovation and business value to financial services organizations looking for a faster selection and assessment process that innovate and bolster their financial crime operations,” said Chuck Papageorgiou, CEO at WorldWatch Plus®. “There is strong synergy and alignment between the industry-leading financial crime solutions and platforms that NICE Actimize offers its community and WorldWatch Plus®. We look forward to building our presence on this innovative community platform.”

“We are excited that WorldWatch Plus®, who shares our common goal of fighting financial crime through the benefits of a marketplace ecosytem, is partnering with us and joining the X-Sight Marketplace community,” said Craig Costigan, CEO, NICE Actimize. “By connecting via a cloud environment, community participants will experience a quicker time to value and minimized integration cost as they evaluate new solutions for their financial services organizations.”

Additional categories that will be added to NICE Actimize’s X-Sight Marketplace from other partner participants will include: ID Verification, Ultimate Beneficial Ownership, Value-added Data & Adverse Media, Watchlist, Device Identification, and User Authentication & Fraud. Additional partners will be announced as the X-Sight Marketplace grows.

About WorldWatchPlus®
WorldWatch Plus® is produced by International Screening Solutions, Inc., a global screening, risk compliance and due diligence firm serving highly-regulated industries, including employment screening, banking, insurance, gaming, and corporate compliance. Founded in 2007, ISS was twice named a Top 10 KYC Solution Provider (2017 and 2018). WorldWatch Plus® provides a secure and easily-integrated compliance platform solution that significantly reduces security and reputation risks while mitigating legal concerns. As the next generation Know Your Customer (KYC), due diligence, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and fraud risk mitigation SaaS solution, WorldWatch Plus® gives financial and corporate risk managers a secure and easily integrated KYC/ CDD compliance platform that lowers operational costs.

For more information on the X-Sight Marketplace, please click here.

If you are a technology company or financial institution wishing to be part of the first financial crime and compliance marketplace, please contact us at [email protected].

About NICE Actimize
NICE Actimize is the largest and broadest provider of financial crime, risk and compliance solutions for regional and global financial institutions, as well as government regulators. Consistently ranked as number one in the space, NICE Actimize experts apply innovative technology to protect institutions and safeguard consumers and investors assets by identifying financial crime, preventing fraud and providing regulatory compliance. The company provides real-time, cross-channel fraud prevention, anti-money laundering detection, and trading surveillance solutions that address such concerns as payment fraud, cybercrime, sanctions monitoring, market abuse, customer due diligence and insider trading. Find us at www.niceactimize.com, @NICE_Actimize or Nasdaq: NICE.

About NICE
NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) is the worldwide leading provider of both cloud and on-premises enterprise software solutions that empower organizations to make smarter decisions based on advanced analytics of structured and unstructured data. NICE helps organizations of all sizes deliver better customer service, ensure compliance, combat fraud and safeguard citizens. Over 25,000 organizations in more than 150 countries, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 companies, are using NICE solutions. www.nice.com

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