Quartz for Compliance

Quartz for Compliance is an AI/ML driven, next-generation compliance solution from Quartz, that enables organizations to anticipate, transform and comply with the stringent requirements in Financial Crime Compliance. Quartz for Compliance provides a comprehensive suite of capabilities including **KYC, Sanctions Screening, AML/CFT, Transaction & Fraud Monitoring, Real-Time Payment Screening, and Regulatory Reporting. **

Leveraging cutting-edge AI/ML features, Quartz for Compliance processes large volumes of data from banking ecosystems, detects patterns with minimal manual intervention, and ensures data integrity. Embedded with advanced analytics and intelligent automation, the solution facilitates intense surveillance, AML monitoring, sophisticated risk analysis, and case/workflow management—ensuring adherence to regulatory policies and guidelines.

AWS-Ready Architecture: Quartz for Compliance is designed for AWS Well-Architected Review (WAR) and TFR compliance and integrates seamlessly with AWS services such as Amazon EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and GuardDuty. This enables organizations to leverage AWS-native capabilities for scalability, security, and operational efficiency.

Key Highlights:

• Comprehensive financial crime mitigation covering watch-list screening, KYC, AML, regulatory reporting, and fraud detection.
• Intuitive dashboards providing structured data views and actionable insights.
• List-agnostic design supporting ingestion of regulatory, third-party, and internal watch-lists for advanced screening.
• Cloud-native deployment optimized for AWS environments to ensure high availability and resilience.

Quartz for Compliance empowers enterprises to proactively detect, prevent, and mitigate financial crime risks while accelerating compliance transformation in a secure, scalable AWS ecosystem.

Key Highlights of Quartz - AWS Integration

Scalable Infrastructure with AWS Cloud

• Quartz AML runs on Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS for elastic compute capacity, enabling institutions to scale AML operations dynamically based on transaction volumes.
• Amazon S3 ensures secure, durable storage for compliance data, audit logs, and historical transaction records.

Security & Compliance Framework

• Built on AWS Well-Architected Framework, ensuring adherence to security best practices.
• Utilizes AWS Key Management Service (KMS) for encryption and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for granular access control.
• Compliant with global standards like GDPR, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001 through AWS’s shared responsibility model.

Real-Time Monitoring & Alerts

• Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda enable real-time monitoring of AML workflows and automated alerts for suspicious transactions.
• Integration with Amazon SNS for instant notifications to compliance officers.

Automation & Event Handling

• AWS Lambda for serverless execution of AML triggers and alerts.

Containerized & Orchestrated Deployment

• Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) for orchestrating containerized AML microservices.
• Amazon ECR (Elastic Container Registry) for secure container image storage and versioning.

Secure Networking & Compute

• Amazon VPC for isolated, secure networking environments.
• Application Load Balancer (ALB) for intelligent traffic routing across AML services.
• Amazon Route 53 for DNS-based routing and high availability.

Data Management & Analytics

• Amazon RDS for relational database storage of compliance data.

API-Driven Integration

• Amazon API Gateway for secure, scalable API endpoints to integrate AML workflows with external systems.

Communication & Notifications

• Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) for automated compliance notifications and regulatory reporting.

Disclaimer:

• The AML compliance solution described here is designed to integrate with AWS services; however, it must be thoroughly tested and validated in your specific AWS environment to ensure compatibility, performance, and adherence to regulatory requirements
• While the AML compliance solution is designed to align with the AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAR) and Technical Field Review (TFR) principles, formal certification requires an authorized AWS Partner or AWS Solutions Architect to review and validate the architecture