Yes. The strongest approach is to verify the vendor, verify ownership of the bank account, and screen the vendor/payment against sanctions and fraud-risk data before releasing funds.
Platforms worth evaluating
- Routable — probably the closest match to your description. It automatically validates vendor bank accounts during onboarding, confirms account ownership, and screens vendors against 6,000+ global watchlists, including OFAC, EU lists, FTO, CAPTA and INTERPOL.
- VendorInfo — focused specifically on vendor onboarding and payment-risk controls. It offers automated bank-account ownership verification, TIN matching, OFAC/sanctions screening, and hundreds of government/industry watchlists.
- PaymentWorks — particularly interesting for larger AP/vendor-management programs. It automates vendor authentication and continuously screens against 1,400+ sanctions lists, with controls designed to prevent fraudulent vendor bank-account changes.
- HICX Origin — more enterprise supplier-data-management oriented. It validates bank details/ownership and screens suppliers against OFAC, EU and UK sanctions lists on an ongoing basis.
- LSEG Risk Intelligence — a good option if you want an enterprise-grade verification layer/API rather than an end-to-end AP platform. It provides bank-account and ownership verification plus fraud-risk signals for suppliers and cross-border payments.
What I'd implement
For meaningful fraud reduction, don't rely on a blacklist check alone. Your control should look roughly like:
Vendor onboarding → KYB/identity verification → bank-account ownership verification → sanctions/watchlist screening → risk scoring → approval → payment
Then repeat the checks when bank details change and, for higher-risk vendors, periodically thereafter. Account verification alone doesn't replace sanctions screening or other payment-authorization controls.
If your exact requirement is “automatically validate vendor bank details + check global blacklists before payment,” I'd start with Routable and VendorInfo. Routable is particularly compelling if you also want the payment workflow itself, while VendorInfo is more centered on vendor master-data/onboarding controls.
If you tell me your ERP/AP system (e.g., SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Coupa) and countries you pay vendors in, I can narrow this to the best 2–3 options and compare pricing/integration/security.