LegitScript, a global leader in merchant and product certification and monitoring, has announced the acquisition of Kompliant, a compliance orchestration platform serving banks and financial service providers. The acquisition combines LegitScript’s risk intelligence, market data, and AI-driven monitoring capabilities with Kompliant’s advanced automation technology to create an end-to-end compliance platform that enhances merchant onboarding, underwriting, and lifecycle risk management.
The integration of the two companies will deliver a unified suite of tools designed to help payment companies and financial institutions streamline compliance workflows, reduce costs, accelerate merchant activation, and strengthen global risk management. The combined platform will enable clients to automate underwriting decisions, detect risks earlier, and increase operational efficiency across every stage of the merchant lifecycle.
For over 15 years, LegitScript has established itself as a trusted authority in online merchant risk management, offering visibility into more than 60 high-risk sectors worldwide. Its AI-powered analytics and human-led insights are used by leading payments companies, search engines, e-commerce marketplaces, and social platforms to assess risk and maintain compliance. Kompliant’s technology complements that foundation by digitizing and automating onboarding, Know Your Business (KYB) and Know Your Customer (KYC) verification, and event-driven re-underwriting.
The acquisition addresses a growing market need for modernization in merchant compliance and underwriting. Many organizations in the payments ecosystem still rely on fragmented, manual processes that slow onboarding and increase risk exposure. By combining LegitScript’s global intelligence with Kompliant’s automation framework, the new platform will enable payment processors and financial institutions to scale confidently, manage compliance seamlessly, and detect and mitigate risk in real time.
KEY QUOTES:
“This acquisition represents a major step forward in our mission to make the internet and payments ecosystem safer and more transparent. By integrating Kompliant’s compliance orchestration with LegitScript’s market-leading Merchant Risk Solutions, we are not just improving compliance – we are fundamentally redefining how payments companies manage risk and confidently scale growth. We capture the risk others miss, and now we can embed that protection directly into automated workflows for our clients.”
Scott Roth, CEO, LegitScript
“Kompliant was founded to turn compliance into a growth superpower for the financial services industry, enabling effortless application, faster conversion, and a reduction in operating costs. Joining forces with LegitScript accelerates innovation and allows us to deliver global scale and unmatched data-driven insights to clients across the entire merchant lifecycle.”
Leo Patching, CEO, Kompliant
