Navan, the business travel platform, announced its new Audit Engine, a transaction screening system with more than 45 configurable audit checks, including built-in anti-corruption and bribery flags. By integrating global risk intelligence used by top financial institutions, said the announcement, Navan now provides real-time protection against high-stakes threats like sanctioned individuals and politically exposed persons.

The Navan platform already enforces its customers’ travel and expense policies proactively: reviewing millions of transactions against detailed spend policies, auto-approving compliant expenses, but flagging what needs attention — all at the point of purchase. Driven by the rapid advancement of AI, said the announcement, Navan can now go even further, screening for a broader range of risk across transaction data, receipts, trips and participants.

Yuval Refua, chief product officer, payments & expense, said, “Finance teams typically rely on multiple systems or headcount to identify risk, fraud and policy violations.” But, he continued, “Protecting the business is fundamentally a data and volume problem — and Navan’s AI is uniquely positioned to solve that.”

The Audit Engine, said Refua, uses multiple large language models to test every transaction against customizable audit checks. Acting as a force multiplier for finance teams, he said, “Navan eliminates hours of detective work and lets them focus only on the transactions that truly require human judgment.”