Case Study: Swiss Life achieves automated high-risk person detection and stronger AML compliance with ACTICO's Name Matching Customer

Swiss Life is Strengthening its Security Standard for Combating Money Laundering

Swiss Life, one of Europe’s leading insurance and financial services providers, faced the challenge of automating identification of high‑risk persons to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing and to meet regulatory requirements across several European subsidiaries and Singapore. To address this, Swiss Life implemented ACTICO’s Name Matching Customer (NMC) software to screen client records against Thomson Reuters World‑Check and other PEP and sanctions lists.

ACTICO’s NMC module has been used at Swiss Life’s headquarters since 2006 and is deployed in the company’s French branch, enabling electronic checks for name similarities, aliases, alternate spellings, birth data, domicile and nationality. The ACTICO solution standardized and automated screening across jurisdictions, strengthened Swiss Life’s AML controls, and has helped the insurer meet compliance obligations while reducing manual screening effort.

Swiss Life

Oliver Hügli

Group Head of Compliance & Qualitative Risk Management