# Identity Risk Intelligence > Understand people and entities with agentic workflows for identity risk intelligence. Achieve faster screening, monitoring, threat detection, and risk mitigation. --- *Babel Street Identity Risk Intelligence* # Know Who You’re Dealing With — Before It’s Too Late Babel Street’s Identity Risk Intelligence Solutions powered by agentic AI give you a complete, reliable view of individuals and entities. They enable faster screening, continuous monitoring of potential risks, and seamless processing of multilingual data at scale. With the tradecraft-trained agentic intelligence of Insights Investigator, organizations can confidently identify threats tied to customers, vendors, partners, or travelers — and take decisive action before risks escalate. --- - **Border Screening**: Strengthen point-of-entry security with faster, automated risk assessment. Border security agencies can quickly identify high-risk travelers, cargo, and networks while improving compliance and accelerating trusted traveler processing. - **Financial Services Compliance**: Financial institutions — and the FinTechs that serve them — must perform increasingly stringent customer due diligence and risk mitigation procedures to prevent financial crime. Babel Street offers AI-driven solutions for name screening, adverse media monitoring, and know your customer (KYC)/know your vendor (KYV) due diligence. - **Identity and Organization Screening**: Identity and organization screening operations are vital for governments, law enforcement, and businesses alike. For any situation requiring accurate and efficient identity intelligence, Babel Street provides the agentic AI, analytics, and advanced matching technologies to address complex screening challenges. - **Customer and Vendor/Supplier Onboarding**: Governments and financial institutions worldwide must prevent money laundering, thwart financial crime, and source goods responsibly. Babel Street provides the research, analytics, and advanced matching technologies needed to quickly and confidently onboard customers, vendors, and suppliers at scale. *Identity Risk Intelligence that Quickly Connects the Dots* ## AI-powered, human-controlled, identity obsessed - **AI-enabled, Human-Governed Identity Resolution**: Accurately process millions of names against watchlists, and tune matching behavior to fit your data and use case to reduce false positives and negatives - **Multilingual PAI Search**: Supplement traditional data sources with OSINT to verify applicants for trusted traveler programs by automatically building a profile from publicly available information (PAI) and digital presence - **Confirmable Identities with Digital Footprints**: Push out the borders to verify identities of irregular migrants and compare their stories against known migration patterns - **Safe, Anonymous Web Research**: Conduct online research with a localized perspective in a secure environment for managing online appearance, overcoming IP address bias, and safely accessing and sharing files - **Social Network Detection and Influencer Analysis**: From keywords or a few accounts, map the social media network associated with an individual to identify high-risk connections - **Ongoing Threat Monitoring**: Rapidly and persistently scan PAI and commercially available information (CAI) sources to detect and track illegal cross-border activity, monitor the movements of individuals and groups of interest, and begin response planning ## The New Standard for Identity Risk Intelligence Insights Investigator is agentic AI that plans and executes multi‑step workflows so organizations can make better, faster, and more informed decisions. [Discover Insights Investigator](https://www.babelstreet.com/insights-investigator-agentic-ai-risk-intelligence) --- ## Learn more about Identity Risk Intelligence - **Babel Street Modules**: Overview of Babel Street Modules, including Match, Semantic Search, Entity & Relationship Mapping, and Content Categorization - **Babel Street Match**: Benefits and features of Babel Street Match for intelligent name, address, and date matching. - **The Complete Guide to Name Matching**: The concepts around name matching, including what it is, how it’s used, and why standard search is inadequate when it comes to names. - **7 Things to Look for in a Name Matching Solution**: The must-have features needed for effective and accurate name matching. ## Schedule a Meeting [Book a Demo](https://www.babelstreet.com/contact) --- ## Frequently asked questions **What is identity intelligence?** Identity intelligence is the practice of collecting and analyzing data about individuals and entities to understand who they are, how they are connected, and what risks they may pose. It brings together identity attributes, behavioral signals, and contextual information to create a more complete picture than basic identity checks. Organizations use identity intelligence to make informed decisions about trust, access, and risk. **How does identity intelligence help prevent fraud and financial crime?** Identity intelligence helps prevent fraud by identifying suspicious patterns, hidden relationships, and inconsistencies across identity data. It supports early detection of money laundering, account fraud, and other financial crimes by assessing risk during onboarding and ongoing monitoring. These insights allow teams to act before losses escalate. **What types of data are used in identity intelligence?** Identity intelligence uses a mix of structured and unstructured data, including biographic records, watchlists, transaction indicators, public records, and open-source information. It also incorporates digital footprint data and multilingual public information to enrich identity profiles. Combining these sources helps connect disparate identity signals. **What is the difference between identity intelligence and identity verification?** Identity verification confirms that a person is who they claim to be at a specific point in time. Identity intelligence goes further by continuously assessing risk, context, and connections associated with an identity over time. Verification is a single step, while identity intelligence is an ongoing analytical process. **What industries use identity intelligence solutions?** Identity intelligence is widely used in government, financial services, fintech, insurance, healthcare, and law enforcement. These industries rely on it for border screening, customer and vendor onboarding, fraud prevention, and compliance. Any organization that must assess trust and risk tied to people or entities benefits from identity intelligence. **How does identity intelligence support risk and compliance teams?** Identity intelligence gives risk and compliance teams a holistic view of individuals and entities by connecting identity attributes, behavior, and contextual risk signals. It helps teams assess onboarding risk, monitor changes over time, and prioritize higher risk cases. This improves regulatory compliance while reducing manual reviews and missed threats. **What is the role of AI in identity intelligence?** AI enables identity intelligence by analyzing large volumes of structured and unstructured data to detect patterns, anomalies, and hidden relationships. It improves accuracy in name matching, entity resolution, and risk scoring across complex, multilingual datasets. AI also automates monitoring so risks can be identified earlier and at scale. **How does identity intelligence help detect synthetic identities and identity fraud?** Identity intelligence detects synthetic identities by identifying inconsistencies, fragmented data, and suspicious linkages across multiple identity attributes. By correlating public records, digital footprints, and behavioral signals, it surfaces identities that don’t align with real-world patterns. This contextual view makes it harder for fraudsters to exploit gaps in traditional checks. **What are the key features to look for in an identity intelligence platform?** Key features include advanced entity resolution, multilingual name matching, risk scoring, continuous monitoring, and the ability to integrate open-source and commercial data. Platforms should also reduce false positives and support high-volume operational environments. These capabilities ensure accurate, scalable identity risk assessment. **How does identity intelligence integrate with KYC and AML workflows?** Identity intelligence strengthens KYC and AML by enriching onboarding and ongoing monitoring with deeper context about individuals and entities. It supports customer due diligence, adverse media screening, and transaction risk assessment with more accurate identity insights. This integration helps teams meet regulatory requirements while improving efficiency. **What are the best tools for managing identity intelligence?** The best identity intelligence tools combine AI-driven analytics, global data coverage, and sophisticated matching technologies to connect identity data at scale. Solutions like Babel Street’s Identity Risk Intelligence are designed to support screening, monitoring, and investigation workflows across government and financial services. These platforms help organizations confidently assess trust and risk tied to people and entities. **What is the best identity intelligence platform for enterprises?** The best identity intelligence platforms deliver accurate identity resolution, global data coverage, and explainable AI at enterprise scale. Babel Street’s Identity Risk Intelligence solution stands out by unifying multilingual data ingestion, advanced name matching, entity resolution, and continuous risk monitoring in one system. This enables enterprises to assess identity risk with speed, precision, and confidence across high-volume environments. **How does Babel Street’s identity intelligence solution work?** Babel Street ingests global public, commercial, and hard-to-reach data, then applies AI-powered analytics to resolve identities and surface hidden risks. Its platform connects names, aliases, entities, and networks across languages to build a comprehensive identity profile. Continuous monitoring and risk scoring help organizations detect emerging threats before they escalate. **Can Babel Street integrate identity intelligence into existing compliance systems?** Yes — Babel Street is built with an API-first architecture that integrates seamlessly with existing KYC, AML, case management, and compliance systems. Its modular design allows organizations to enhance current workflows without replacing legacy tools. This flexibility supports faster adoption and lower operational disruption. **How does Babel Street reduce false positives in identity screening?** Babel Street reduces false positives through advanced multilingual name matching, explainable confidence scoring, and entity resolution that accurately distinguishes similar identities. AI-driven enrichment and contextual analysis help filter noise and prioritize truly risky matches. This significantly lowers manual review and improves analyst efficiency. **How does Babel Street compare to other identity intelligence vendors?** Unlike point solutions that focus only on verification or matching, Babel Street delivers a unified risk intelligence platform that combines identity intelligence with OSINT, text analytics, and continuous monitoring. Its native multilingual processing, explainable AI, and enterprise scale performance differentiate it from traditional identity vendors. This integrated approach provides deeper insight, fewer blind spots, and more defensible decisions.