Fatih Coşkun is the founder and chief executive of complead, the AML platform he started in 2020 as Sanction Scanner and now runs from London. It screens, monitors, and investigates for more than 800 financial institutions in more than 80 countries.
Mastercard and a Services Company
Coşkun trained as a computer engineer at Istanbul Technical University, where he was a Microsoft Student Partner and interned at banking software companies. After graduating he spent five and a half years at Mastercard as a program manager, learning how payments work behind the scenes. He then started a services company, Codevist, whose income later paid for the early days of his next venture.
The First Customer Upstairs
He landed Sanction Scanner’s first customer in 2020 by walking up two flights of stairs to the payment institution that rented space upstairs from his office and asking if they would like to try what he was building. The company opened a London office the same year and passed 30 customers in its first year. Customers outside Türkiye soon outnumbered those inside it, and the 2022 Russia sanctions program tested its data layer in public.
From Sanction Scanner to complead
In 2026 he renamed the company complead, explaining that the work had outgrown a name built around one list. It now covers screening, adverse media, KYB, transaction monitoring, and fraud prevention, with a team of approximately 40 that has never taken outside capital, a place on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Türkiye list four years running, and a profitable business on its way to eight figures in annual revenue. It competes with ComplyAdvantage and Castellum.AI, both of which have raised far more money.
He still refuses to call the business a success. The habit that won the customer upstairs, showing up and asking, is the one he keeps.
