London, 3rd December 2025 - Experian, the global data and technology company, and CleverChain, the award-winning UKRegTech (technology that simplifies regulatory compliance), have announced a strategic partnership to deliver AI-powered global due diligence intelligence to businesses operating internationally.As global trade expands, businesses face increasing pressure to meet stringent financial crime regulations, compounded by complex cross-border ownership structures. Central to these requirements are Know Your Customer and Know Your Business (KYC/KYB) checks processes designed to verify identity and assess risk, helping prevent money laundering and other financial crimes.

With AI-powered global due diligence solutions, businesses can speed up checks, enhance precision, and manage compliance at scale.

By combining Experian’s trusted compliance and technology expertise with CleverChain’s AI-powered capabilities and global network connections, clients gain contextual intelligence on multiple risk dimensions, including ethical, reputational, operational, financial risks. This helps uncover high-risk activities, hidden connections and suspicious patterns, all while strengthening risk controls, improving efficiency and enhancing the overall customer experience.

Paul Weathersby, Chief Product Officer, Identity & Fraud at Experian UK&I said:
“This partnership sets a new standard for global due diligence, a vital component in KYB processes and the fight against financial crime. By leveraging automation, businesses can accelerate complex compliance workflows from days to minutes, strengthen risk controls and deliver greater customer value. The result is a streamlined experience that enables organisations to operate confidently in an increasingly interconnected world.”

“By combining our global data intelligence with Experian's expertise in data, analytics and technology, we are delivering a game-changing solution that strengthens financial institutions’ ability to detect and prevent financial crime while simplifying compliance around the world. Together, we turn complex data into actionable insights, enabling faster, smarter and more effective risk management" said Daniele Azzaro, CEO and co-founder of CleverChain.

These advanced Due Diligence reports are available now to Experian clients.  

About CleverChain

CleverChain is a real-time intelligence hub for verifying, assessing, and monitoring companies, individuals and digital wallets. Founded by the minds that pioneered major AML control transformations – including “perpetual KYC” – at leading European banks, CleverChain fuses high-quality global data with explainable AI to deliver actionable intelligence and large-scale automation trusted by users and regulators alike. 

VERA, our autonomous AI Digital Due Diligence Agent, performs in-depth, contextual, end-to-end due diligence based on the users’ individual policies, including audit logs and quality assurance checks. Meanwhile, our AI Digital Consultants KIRA and LEXI interactively enable in-depth investigations and regulatory reviews. 

Named among the 50 most relevant anti-financial crime companies globally and “Best KYB” by Chartis Research in both 2024 and 2025, and “Best KYC/KYB Innovation” by Datos Insights in 2025, CleverChain serves primarily Financial Institutions, Industrial Groups and Risk Consultancies, and is part of the UK FCA Regulatory Sandbox. Learn more at cleverchain.ai.

About Experian

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We help to redefine lending practices, uncover and prevent fraud, simplify healthcare, deliver digital marketing solutions, and gain deeper insights into the automotive market, all using our unique combination of data, analytics and software. We also assist millions of people to realise their financial goals and help them save time and money.

We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agrifinance, insurance and many more industry segments.

We invest in talented people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data and to innovate. A FTSE 100 Index company listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN), we have a team of 25,100 people across 32 countries. Our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Learn more at experianplc.com.

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