Compliance for the Art Market

Compliance for the Art Market

The first unified platform that screens the client, the object, the transaction, and the route, in one system, with one explainable score .

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Transaction review
Lot 142 — Oil on canvas, 1962
Flagged
78 /100
Client
Object
Transaction
Jurisdiction
Ownership gap detected 1938–1961 · source: catalogue raisonné, lot history

The problem

The tools were built for banks. Not for art.

Galleries stitch together a KYC tool, a sanctions screener, a provenance spreadsheet, and an inbox full of case notes. Nothing talks to each other, and the regulator is no longer patient.

19%
of art market participants are fully compliant
335
penalty notices issued in six months

The solution

Four domains. One score. Zero black boxes.

Tessera assesses Client, Object, Transaction, and Jurisdiction risk at once and resolves them into a single, explainable score. Every signal is cited to its source, so when the regulator asks why, the answer is on screen.

Client + Object + Transaction + Jurisdiction = One explainable score

Capabilities

Six tiles. One picture of risk.

Provenance Intelligence

Automated ownership-timeline reconstruction with gap detection for Nazi-era, antiquities, and illicit-export windows.

Hidden-Ownership Graph

See the real beneficial owner behind shell companies and trusts.

Art-Native Monitoring

Flag flipping, wash-trading, and structuring the way the art market actually launders.

Trade & Jurisdiction

Export licences, CITES, customs, and VAT inside the AML workflow.

Unified Risk Scoring

One composite score across four domains, fully explainable.

Case Management & SAR

Built for the MLRO, from investigation to filing.

Differentiator

Generic RegTech screens the client. Tessera screens everything else too.

The client, the object, the money, and the route , in one platform, with one score, and one audit trail. This is compliance built for how the art market actually works.

One platform One score One audit trail

Why now

The risk is now a line item.

3rd most-fined sector under HMRC's AML supervision
60% of art market participants are non-compliant

The question isn't whether to act. It's whether you'll be ready before your next inspection.

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