When Keep, a fast-scaling fintech platform, began to expand its customer base across multiple markets, its compliance team quickly found themselves overwhelmed by the volume of manual reviews.

Every new customer, vendor, or transaction flagged for potential risk required hours of manual investigation across disparate data sources, from adverse media checks to watchlist screenings. What started as a few extra hours a week soon snowballed into a significant operational burden—consuming more than 60 hours of analyst time each month.

Keep’s leadership knew that continuing down this path wasn’t sustainable. Not only was it draining the team’s resources, but it also introduced the risk of human error and inconsistent decisions under pressure. They needed a solution that could scale with their growth, while ensuring the highest standard of compliance and risk oversight.

That’s when they turned to Arva AI.

Unlike traditional screening tools, Arva’s agentic AI approach doesn’t just return raw matches. Instead, it reads, contextualises, and reasons through alerts much like a seasoned analyst would—only faster and with consistent accuracy. For Keep, this meant that their compliance team no longer had to sift through endless irrelevant hits or spend time cross-checking sources. Arva’s Screening AI handled the heavy lifting, surfacing only the alerts that truly required human judgment.

The impact was immediate. Within the first month of deployment, Keep eliminated more than 60 hours of manual review work, freeing their compliance officers to focus on higher-value activities such as customer onboarding, policy refinement, and investigative work. Operational costs dropped, decision-making became faster and more consistent, and the compliance function went from being a bottleneck to a strategic enabler for growth.

Today, Keep continues to scale with confidence, knowing that Arva AI provides a reliable, explainable, and efficient foundation for its compliance operations. As one of Keep’s compliance managers put it:

“Working with Arva has fundamentally changed how we handle risk and compliance operations. The platform’s ability to surface relevant adverse media and prioritize critical alerts with context has saved our team countless hours. It strikes the perfect balance between AI-driven insights and human control — empowering our analysts to move faster and with more confidence. What impressed us most is how adaptable Arva is to our workflows. It’s not just another tool; it’s become a core part of how we work.”

About Arva AI

Arva AI helps banks, fintechs, and financial institutions scale their compliance operations through agentic AI. Backed by Y Combinator and the Google AI Fund, Arva’s platform provides explainable, audit-ready AI agents for AML, KYC, KYB, and screening.

With Arva, compliance teams reduce false positives, accelerate onboarding, and strengthen financial crime defenses — without adding headcount.