Assessment
NICE Actimize is used by banks, brokers, and other regulated firms that must catch money laundering, fraud, and market abuse. It has more than 1,000 clients and monitors more than 5 billion transactions a day, and its best use cases are transaction monitoring, customer due diligence and screening, enterprise fraud management, trade surveillance through SURVEIL-X, and case management on its X-Sight platform. It sells by enterprise contract, which puts it at the high end of the market on price, and its main competitors are SAS, Oracle Financial Services, Quantexa, and Hawk.
Actimize was founded in Israel in 1999, and NiCE bought it for $280M in 2007. Its business line brought in $485M of revenue in 2025, up 7%, with operating profit of $167M. Craig Costigan is chief executive. In June 2026 Norway’s DNB chose X-Sight Enterprise cloud solutions to modernize its fraud and financial crime operations, and NiCE has the unit up for sale. Brookfield entered exclusive talks in September 2026 to buy it for about $2B, and on November 4, 2026, NiCE said the sale process was still underway.
It fits a large institution that wants a proven suite with deep regulatory coverage and is ready for a long rollout. It is a weaker fit for a fintech or small bank that wants fast setup and usage-based pricing, where Hawk, Flagright, or ComplyAdvantage move faster.
Rating by criterion
We score each of the eight criteria out of 100.
Sector criteria
Use it to cover AML, fraud, and surveillance in one suite. More than 1,000 firms rely on it, and it protects about $6 trillion of transactions a day.
Bring in its AI models for alert scoring. Actimize builds machine learning into its entity-centric AML and fraud tools.
Run investigations in its case manager. Alerts from AML, fraud, and surveillance tools land in one queue for analysts.
Count on regulatory depth. Its tools cover AML, KYC, fraud, and trade surveillance rules across many jurisdictions.
Vendor criteria
Expect a broad platform with cloud options. X-Sight runs as a cloud service, and Actimize Insights Network shares fraud intelligence across clients.
Plan a long rollout. Large banks often bring in a systems integrator, as DNB did with Infosys.
Get pricing in writing. Fees are set by enterprise contract, and no public price list exists.
Weigh the ownership question. NiCE has reportedly explored selling the unit, so seek service and roadmap commitments in the contract.
Against its peers
These are the other companies in KYC, AML and identity, with their ratings.
User comments
We read NICE Actimize’s product pages, the DNB contract announcement, and coverage of NiCE’s results to see what buyers value, and set them against the main limit a buyer meets.
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Where customer reviews couldn't be found, our analysts attempted to give a voice to buyer sentiment, drawing on real information from review sites, forums and product documentation.
Based on: NICE Actimize home page; NiCE, DNB press release.
Fact file
| Parent | NiCE Ltd. (Nasdaq: NICE) |
|---|---|
| Chief executive | Craig Costigan |
| 2025 revenue | $485M, up 7% |
| 2025 operating profit | $167M |
| Clients | More than 1,000 |
| Transactions monitored | More than 5 billion a day |
Competitive landscape
Financial crime compliance suites a bank would compare with NICE Actimize.
NICE Actimize: 78
- NICE Actimize78
- ComplyAdvantage80
- Feedzai77
- Hawk76
- Unit2176
- Quantexa75
- Featurespace75
- Napier AI75
- SASNot reviewed
- Oracle Financial ServicesNot reviewed
Unit21 gives banks, credit unions, and fintechs fraud and AML monitoring, case management, SAR filing, and AI agents for alerts, a faster setup for a team that writes its own rules.
Comparisons
Key leadership
Craig Costigan is chief executive of NICE Actimize. He earlier ran the Capital Markets & Credit business at FIS and the risk and compliance business at SunGard.
How this review was created
This profile gives our own assessment of NICE Actimize to companies selecting a KYC, AML & identity provider. The Fintech Index receives nothing for featuring a firm, for sponsorship, or for advertising, and NICE Actimize gave us no payment for the profile.
The rating equals the average of eight criteria, with every criterion running from 0 to 100. Four address buyer needs in this sector, and four address the company together with its commercial terms.
Ratings are our editorial judgment, made from public information: pricing and legal pages, product documentation, compliance disclosures, public reviews and filings. Fact-checking took place on November 3, 2026.
Source pages
- NICE Actimize home page: https://www.niceactimize.com/ (As of November 3, 2026)
- NiCE, DNB press release, June 2, 2026: https://www.nice.com/press-releases/nice-actimize-x-sight-enterprise-cloud-solutions-selected-by-dnb-norway (As of November 3, 2026)
- Globes, September 29, 2026: https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-has-nice-turned-a-corner-1001557826 (As of November 3, 2026)
- Israel Innovation Authority, NICE Actimize: https://innovationisrael.org.il/en/success_story/nice-actimize/ (As of November 3, 2026)
- NiCE, Craig Costigan: https://www.nice.com/company/global-leadership/craig-costigan (As of November 3, 2026)
- NiCE corporate overview, April 2026: https://resources.nice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/NiCE-Corporate-Overview-April-2026-1.pdf (As of November 3, 2026)
- Calcalist: Nice says Actimize sale process remains ongoing (November 4, 2026): https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/ene3z08a2 (As of November 9, 2026)
- Calcalist: Brookfield closes in on $2 billion deal for Nice’s Actimize: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/iazqvedg2 (As of November 9, 2026)