Clear answers about how Global Onboarding operates and what teams receive.
Global Onboarding
Real-time merchant risk scoring at onboarding
Safely underwrite more merchants, faster, using intelligent risk scoring, modular components, and a unified merchant lifecycle workflow.
Submit merchant applications your way
Enter merchant data through API, SFTP, or the G2RS portal UI.
Configure the Global Onboarding components
Define your own content risk categories, beyond standard BRAM and VIRP, to align with internal compliance policies, then configure the Global Onboarding components to power your risk assessment.
Generate an aggregated Compass Score™
Global Onboarding compiles findings into a single Compass Score™ from 0 to 1000, with detailed reason codes and component-level transparency.
Take action and manage merchant lifecycle movement
Approve, reject, or pend merchants. Move approved merchants into monitoring with one click within the same platform
Common Questions
Does it…
Does it generate a single aggregated risk score?
Yes. Global Onboarding supports configurable components that aggregate risk signals into one Compass Score™ to inform decisions.
Does it leverage proprietary historical merchant data?
Yes. Compass Score™ is informed by Merchant Map, G2 Risk Solutions’ proprietary database built from over 20 years of global merchant fraud and compliance data.
Does it support sanctions, watchlist, and adverse media screening?
Yes. Sanctions and watchlist screening, consumer ratings, adverse media, and operational risk are configurable Compass Score™ components.
Does it integrate with monitoring and audit workflows?
Yes. Global Onboarding connects onboarding, monitoring, and re-underwriting in one unified merchant risk platform.
Can I…
Can I configure risk tolerance by component?
Yes. Each Global Onboarding component can be configured to reflect your business rules.
Can I choose automated reporting or analyst review?
Yes. You can choose automated or analyst reviewed work, or both available via API or portal.
Can I re-underwrite merchants already in monitoring?
Yes. Global Onboarding allows re-underwriting of merchants enrolled in PMM or TLD using the same scoring framework
What do I get…
Aggregated Compass Score™ intelligence
A single, configurable aggregated score derived from merchant risk history, content compliance, sanctions screening, adverse media, and operational risk components.
Intelligent risk insights
Compass Score™ uses historical merchant behavior to help inform potential future compliance and fraud exposure.
Lifecycle continuity
Move merchants from onboarding to monitoring to audit within the same UI, reducing vendor sprawl and workflow friction
Flexible deployment
Use API, UI, or bulk upload with configurable automation levels
