Gurugram, August 8, 2025 – Fios Compliance, an advanced Open Data Intelligence platform, has officially launched to help organizations strengthen regulatory compliance and mitigate risks through next-generation integrity checks. The name Fios — derived from the Gaelic word for “Knowledge” — reflects the platform’s mission to empower decision-making with precise, timely intelligence.
India’s regulatory landscape is vast, encompassing 1,536 Acts, 69,233 compliances, and 6,618 filings. Many of these requirements link to domestic and international compliance frameworks, including FATF standards. Fios Compliance bridges this gap by delivering extended open-source intelligence (OSINT) via an automated, secure, cloud-based screening process. This helps financial institutions, corporations, and regulated entities conduct fit-and-proper due diligence and meet evolving compliance demands.
“Our mission is to provide clients with advanced open data intelligence solutions that enhance their ability to meet compliance requirements,” said Deepak Bhawnani, Managing Director, Fios Compliance. “Through automated research and screening of global sources, we support clients in identifying and evaluating comprehensive risks, setting a new standard for regulatory resilience.”
Key Features of the Fios Compliance Platform
- Adverse/negative media screening for early risk detection
- Global sanctions and watchlist checks aligned with FATF and other regulations
- Politically Exposed Person (PEP) exposure analysis
- Significant litigation and insolvency searches for reputation risk insights
- Continuous onboarding of new global portals and databases to expand coverage
- Digital footprint and corporate filings analysis to detect potential fraud indicators
The platform leverages secure cloud technology to access both Indian and international compliance databases, enabling fast, independent, and verifiable integrity checks. By integrating open data collation techniques with advanced filtering, it offers an unprecedented external due diligence capability.
The scale of open data is massive — while the world’s 10 largest libraries collectively house around 700 million items, search engine indexes contain over 400 billion documents, which still represents less than a third of all available open data. Fios Compliance harnesses this vast universe of information for Extended KYC and sanctions screening, going beyond traditional methods to identify hidden risk factors.
This innovation comes at a time when stringent global regulations — including India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the EU’s GDPR — demand greater transparency, accuracy, and accountability in data handling. Fios Compliance adopts industry best practices to ensure data legitimacy and accuracy, helping organizations stay compliant with the highest reporting standards.
