Unit21
Unit21 provides transaction monitoring, case management, and a no-code rules engine for fraud and AML teams, available inside Zenoo flows.
At a glance
Overview
Unit21 overview
Unit21 is a risk and compliance platform covering transaction monitoring, fraud detection, case management, and SAR filing, built around a no-code rules engine that compliance teams can configure without engineering support. It suits organisations with an established risk function that want control over their own detection logic.
- Company
- Unit21, Inc.
- Category
- Fraud prevention
- Strongest in
- No-code rules and case management
- Best fit
- Risk teams that want to own detection logic
Where it is strongest
Key strengths
What Unit21 does well.
No-code rules engine
Compliance teams can build and adjust detection rules themselves, without waiting on engineering, which shortens the loop between spotting a pattern and acting on it.
Alert-to-SAR workflow in one place
Monitoring, case management, and SAR filing sit in a single platform, so investigations do not bounce between tools.
Covers fraud and AML together
One platform spans transaction monitoring, fraud detection, and KYC-adjacent workflows, giving risk teams a shared operating picture.
Who it suits
Best for
Where Unit21 fits, and what to plan for.
Honest notes on the trade-offs, each with a way to cover the gap inside a Zenoo flow.
- Organisations with an in-house risk team that wants to own its detection rules
- Fintechs that need case management and SAR filing, not just alerts
- Teams that already have identity and data providers and need the monitoring layer
- Brings the engine, not the data. Unit21 relies on third-party providers for identity and document verification data rather than processing documents natively. That makes it a natural fit for orchestration: pair it with identity verification providers in the same Zenoo flow and it becomes the decisioning layer on top.
- Rule quality depends on risk expertise. Community reports suggest poorly tuned rules can generate heavy alert volumes. Start from proven rule templates, tune against historical data, and expand gradually rather than switching everything on at once.
Open the customer's case
What your team sees
The Unit21 result, beside everything else.
The result sits with screening and review on one case, so nobody checks a second tool to see the whole customer.
What you can build
- Transaction monitoring with team-owned detection rules
- Case management and SAR filing for AML operations
- Fraud and AML review layered on top of existing KYC providers
About Unit21
FAQs
Unit21 questions.
Does Unit21 verify identity documents?
No, it consumes verification results from other providers rather than processing documents itself. In a Zenoo flow you connect an identity verification provider upstream, and Unit21 acts as the monitoring and decisioning layer on the combined data.
How much risk expertise does Unit21 need?
The rules engine is no-code, but writing good rules still takes risk knowledge. Teams without that expertise should start with template rules and tune slowly, since loose rules create alert volume that overwhelms analysts.
Hands it to your team
Verification is the first step. Compliance Hub handles the rest.
Once a customer is verified, screening and review happen in Compliance Hub. A possible PEP match lands in your team inbox with the evidence and the full history beside it. Zenoo suggests, your team decides.
Pairs well with
TruliooFeed verified identity and business data into monitoring rules.ID
iDenfyAdd document and biometric verification ahead of monitoring.CO
ComplyAdvantageAdd sanctions and adverse media screening to the same flow. Alternatives
SardineFraud prevention · Sardine AI Corp.FE
FeedzaiFraud prevention · Feedzai, Inc.COComplyAdvantageAML screeningNA
NICE ActimizeTransaction monitoring · NICE Actimize (NICE Ltd) More in fraud prevention
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