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Altares

At Neterium, we take pride in our strategic partnerships with top-notched platforms and solutions partners to deliver unparalleled screening solutions.

Neterium works with digital platforms, financial services providers, and solution vendors to bring advanced screening directly into their products. This means our partners can deliver faster, smoother, and safer experiences to their customers, while keeping their attention on what they do best.

In this pursuit, we are honoured to partner with Altares-Dun & Bradstreet, the global leader in business data.

Join us as we engage in an in-depth conversation with Luc Querton, President and CEO of Altares-Dun & Bradstreet, to explore the dynamics of the Neterium and Altares-Dun & Bradstreet partnership.

1) Can you please introduce yourself, Luc?

Over the last 20 years, I have worked in the compliance technology arena, at first specifically dedicated to financial institutions across the world (spanning from anti-money laundering, through sanctions screening to market abuse and internal fraud) and more recently, I have embraced a wider remit including all of the above but also anti-bribery and corruption, financial credit risk and ESG compliance. I have been the CEO of Altares since early January 2019. Before this position, I was the President of FircoSoft, the global leader in sanctions screening, after its acquisition by LexisNexis Risk Solutions. And in the early years of 2000, I led an anti-money laundering technology business unit of Fiserv’s in Europe.

2) With 20+ years of experience, you’ve watched compliance become more complex and widespread. How do you help your clients navigate it with ease?

Over the past two decades, compliance has moved from a back-office obligation to a board-level priority. The pressure comes from everywhere: new regulations, increasing sanctions, scrutiny on supply chains, and the sheer scale of data that firms must process.

Our role is to simplify that complexity whilst upholding the risk control principles defined by our clients. At Altares, we provide organisations with a focal business solution to apply their compliance policies. That solution is powered by verified business partner insights, from shareholders and directors to beneficial owners and ultimate linkages. It also cross-references these insights against sanctions lists, politically exposed persons, and adverse media. And as importantly, the solution meshes itself into the business and technological value chain of our clients.

But simplification doesn’t mean cutting corners; it means making compliance faster, sharper, and auditable. We combine trusted worldwide Dun & Bradstreet data with intelligent, AI-powered workflows so our clients can focus their human expertise where it really matters. That’s how we enable hundreds of corporates & financial institutions across Europe to meet regulatory demands without paralysing their commercial ambitions.

3) Financial crime compliance is becoming increasingly complex. How does integrating Neterium’s advanced screening capabilities strengthen Altares’ ability to help organisations manage risks while still driving business growth?

Our partnership with Neterium is strategic. Screening has become one of the most resource-intensive parts of compliance, especially as sanctions evolve almost weekly due to an entangled geopolitical environment. Traditionally, customers had to ingest raw screening data through APIs that weren’t optimised for their internal systems, leading to a flood of false positives.

By integrating Neterium’s advanced screening technology into indueD, the flagship compliance platform of Altares, we pre-filter and normalise data before it reaches the user. This means alerts are more accurate, response times are shorter, and compliance teams spend less energy on noise.

The result is not just stronger compliance, it’s also more business agility. Our clients can onboard partners faster, approve transactions with greater confidence, and ultimately maintain growth without exposing themselves to undue risk. It’s a perfect example of how the right technology partnership transforms compliance from a frictional bottleneck into a business enabler.

4) Looking ahead, how do you see AI-powered, enriched B2B data influencing the future of compliance and enabling organisations to strengthen both resilience and trust?

AI is the next frontier in compliance, but it must be applied responsibly. We’re not replacing the judgment of compliance officers; we’re giving them a digital analyst at their side. At Altares, our AI-driven false positive management feature replicates the way a human analyst researches and validates a potential match: scanning context, cross-checking attributes, and learning from previous decisions.

That means fewer false positives, faster investigations, and resources freed up for higher-risk cases. But more importantly, it creates a defensible audit trail: decisions are consistent, explainable, and anchored in high-quality B2B data.

We advocate for a pragmatic and responsible use of AI in our solutions due to the extreme sensitivity of the information that we expose and its potential consequences.