Compare D&B Risk Analytics vs. Variance

Globally, teams in risk, procurement, and compliance are under pressure to manage geopolitical risks and business risks. Third-party risks are impacted by the complexity of domestic and international businesses, as well as complex and diverse regulations. It is crucial that companies proactively manage third-party relationships. This cutting-edge platform, powered by D&B Data Cloud's 520M+ Global Business Records with 2B+ annual updates for third-party risks, is an AI-powered solution that mitigates and monitors counterparty risk on a continual basis. D&B Risk Analytics uses best-in class risk data, including alerts for high-risk purchases and match points of more than a billion. This helps to drive informed decisions. Intelligent workflows allow for quick and thorough screening. Receive alerts on key business indicators.

Variance is an AI-driven investigation and customer due diligence platform built for regulated financial institutions. The platform uses AI agents to perform investigative work across L1, L2, and L3 review processes while preserving consistency, traceability, and explainability. Agents can reproduce existing manual investigation workflows by collecting evidence from multiple internal and external sources. These sources can include transaction databases, company registries, sanctions lists, websites, adverse media, leaked-data repositories, and other investigative systems. Variance can also extract useful information from unstructured material such as scanned documents, handwritten records, images, PDFs, and web pages. Each investigation produces an evidence trail with cited sources, timestamps, artifacts, and the reasoning behind an agent’s conclusion. This structure is intended to help compliance teams prepare cases for internal review, regulators, and external auditors. Variance is designed to help teams close false alerts more quickly while escalating higher-risk cases with supporting evidence. The platform supports Know Your Customer, Know Your Business, transaction monitoring, and customer due diligence workflows.