Candex selects complead for screening and ongoing monitoring. Melis Alparslan Regional Sales Manager · October 27, 2026 · 3 min read · Last reviewed October 29, 2026 In short. Candex, the US based fintech master vendor working in 50+ countries, has selected complead for name screening and ongoing monitoring. Every name is screened at the start of a relationship and rescreened continuously against data refreshed every 15 minutes, so compliance stays current after onboarding. complead today announced that Candex, the US based fintech master vendor that lets companies engage, track and pay for any good or service, has selected complead for name screening and ongoing monitoring. Candex screens names against sanctions, PEP and watchlists when a relationship starts, and keeps every screened name under continuous rescreening, so its compliance checks stay current long after onboarding. Candex works in 50+ countries. Companies trade through it without setting up every supplier as a new vendor, which puts the compliance checks for those relationships on Candex, every day and at scale. "complead has a user friendly interface and delivers screening results at high speed. Because the interface is simple and clear, our team adopted it quickly and uses it effectively every day, and ongoing monitoring keeps our checks current as the lists change," said Laura Otterpohl, Compliance Manager at Candex. What Candex runs on complead. Candex uses two complead products on complead Fusion, the engine of complead's AI native platform for AML, KYC and fraud: * Name screening: every name is checked against 3,500+ sanctions, PEP and watchlists from 220+ jurisdictions, refreshed every 15 minutes * Ongoing monitoring: every screened name is rescreened continuously against that same data, so a new designation or a change to a listed record raises a review within minutes instead of at the next periodic check * One record per name, with every match, review and decision logged for audit Built for US compliance programs. Under OFAC rules, U.S. persons are generally prohibited from dealing with the individuals and entities on the SDN List, and that duty does not stop at onboarding. complead serves US customers through its US entity, and its continuous rescreening means a name that becomes sanctioned after onboarding is flagged without waiting for the next review cycle. For a master vendor that pays suppliers in 50+ countries, that turns compliance from a one time check into a continuous control. "Candex lets companies pay any supplier quickly, and that only works when compliance keeps pace with every payment. With name screening and ongoing monitoring on complead, every name Candex works with is checked when the relationship starts and watched after that, so compliance is continuous rather than a single moment. We are proud to support the Candex team." Fatih Coşkun, Founder & CEO, October 2026 One platform for AML, KYC and fraud. Screening, transaction monitoring and client risk on one engine, with one risk score for every client. 800+ companies use complead 80+ countries served About Candex. Candex is a fintech master vendor that lets businesses engage, track and pay for any good or service without a separate vendor setup for each supplier. It works in 50+ countries. How Candex screens its long tail of vendors. Candex's compliance manager explains how it screens and monitors every vendor with complead. About complead. complead, formerly Sanction Scanner, is AI native risk infrastructure for AML, KYC and fraud compliance. complead Fusion gives regulated businesses one customer record, one risk score and one set of rules across screening, KYB, monitoring and fraud. Founded in Istanbul in 2019 and headquartered in London, complead is used by 800+ companies in 80+ countries. Lead on compliance. Join 800+ companies that trust complead to detect risk, prevent fraud and stay compliant. One Platform all compliance, risk & fraud requirements in a platform Melis Alparslan is Regional Sales Manager at complead. Before complead, Melis led global growth at B2Metric and worked in business development and strategy at Dataroid and ÇiçekSepeti. Originally published 27 October 2026, updated 29 October 2026

Opella and Candex: simplifying spend, maintaining control. October 14, 2026 Candex's Jeremy Lappin and Opella's Lyvio Frimat discuss how their partnership simplifies procurement by streamlining tail spend management When Opella separated from pharmaceutical giant Sanofi in May 2025 and became an independent consumer health business, its Procurement Operations Lead, Lyvio Frimat, now Vice President - Global Head of Procurement Centre of Excellence, Strategy & Transformation at Opella, had worked with Candex previously. "Because of our initial association with Sanofi," Jeremy Lappin, Co-Founder and CEO of Candex, explains, "they had a lot of confidence to do things quickly and powerfully with Candex." New business, new procurement functionality. Opella inherited a procurement landscape built for a global pharmaceutical company, not an agile standalone fast-moving consumer healthcare (FMCH) business. Tail spend was fragmented and largely invisible, and hundreds of low-value, one-time transactions were absorbing team bandwidth and creating compliance exposure. Candex, a platform that helps large organisations manage and pay small and one-time vendors, offered a way to bring that segment under control without waiting for the wider source-to-pay architecture to mature. For Jeremy, it was "a very unique situation where Candex is part of the core strategy" of a newly independent company. For Lyvio, the partnership with Candex is helping his team "solve a problem most procurement transformations ignore until it is too late: how do you bring the entire spend base under governance without bringing the entire organisation to a standstill? The answer isn't more process - it is smarter architecture." Frictionless control. A core strand of Opella's solution to reduce procurement friction is to separate tail spend transactions from strategic, more complex procurement contracts. With Candex, Opella's supplier onboarding, payment terms and compliance standards stay "within a clear governance frame - while removing the process burden" that stifles procurement efficiency. Opella's users notice. One requisitioner told Jeremy: "It was so easy, I thought I did it wrong." Candex, he says, is there to enable: "Our job at Candex is not to exist. It's to sort of sit in the background." Beyond efficiency. Coupled with its newly deployed "Agentic Vertical", Opella expects three wider benefits from the partnership with Candex. 1. Spend that was previously off-system or wrongly routed to Candex will be captured upfront and made reportable, feeding its value tracking and analytics. 2. Colleagues who once worked around procurement will have a frictionless route inside the governance framework, while procurement professionals can move from processing tail transactions to strategic, relationship-led work. 3. The partnership also supports Opella's ProcureTech ambitions. Candex is designed to handle engagement and payment without approved suppliers entering the core ERP unnecessarily. "You have to automate the tail to make orchestration work," Lyvio explains, "and Candex is precisely what will be making that possible." 'It's always about the people' For both Jeremy and Lyvio, the partnership's success ultimately comes down to people and mutual understanding. "It's always about the people," Jeremy says, praising Opella for managing the Candex project "at the very highest levels," while Lyvio credits "shared clarity" for the partnership's success, which enabled Candex to operate reliably within Opella's governance architecture. Ultimately, "a partner that makes your governance stronger earns a place in your architecture," Lyvio says. The next phase. Both teams are exploring higher-risk, traditionally unmanaged spend, such as payments outside purchase order processes known as maverick spend. Opella also sees scope for deeper analytics integration, growing volumes from AI-assisted sourcing, and a better supplier experience as it builds its supplier relationship management framework. "There's a lot of opportunity in some of those areas that are currently considered unmanaged spend," Jeremy says. For Lyvio, the partnership is still evolving. He says: "We are on a journey. We've been accelerating quite a lot in the past months, and by the end of December, it's going to be totally in execution." Did you know? Executives. * Jeremy Lappin Founder and CEO * Lyvio Frimat Global VP | Head of Procurement Excellence, Strategy & Transformation Company Portals