Business travel and expense platform Navan has launched its Audit Engine, an enterprise-grade transaction screening system with more than 45 configurable audit checks, including built-in Anti-Corruption and Bribery check.
By integrating global risk intelligence used by top financial institutions, Navan says it 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,” the Palo Alto, CA-based company said in an April 2 media release. “Driven by the rapid advancement of AI, Navan can now go even further, screening for a broader range of risk across transaction data, receipts, trips, and participants.”
“Finance teams typically rely on multiple systems or headcount to identify risk, fraud, and policy violations. But protecting the business is fundamentally a data and volume problem—and Navan’s AI is uniquely positioned to solve that,” Yuval Refua, chief product officer of payments and expense at Navan, said in a statement. “Our Audit Engine uses multiple LLMs to test every transaction against customizable audit checks. Acting as a force multiplier for finance teams, Navan eliminates hours of detective work and lets them focus only on the transactions that truly require human judgment.”
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Navan’s Audit Engine builds on years of travel and expense intelligence. On average, 75% of transactions are auto-approved, leaving only the remaining 25%—flagged as high-risk spend—for human review. So far this year, Navan has flagged 2 million transactions, including close to 30,000 instances of excessive tipping and hundreds of AI-generated fraudulent receipts that traditional providers miss. Other audit flags include weekend spend, receipt amount mismatches, and prohibited items like alcohol and tobacco.
“While catching internal risk and fraud is critical, a more challenging problem for enterprise compliance teams is knowing who they are doing business with. A single transaction with a politically exposed or sanctioned individual can trigger FCPA violations carrying fines in the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Until now, managing this risk has required separate compliance tools that operate outside the T&E workflow, creating a dangerous blind spot between when a transaction happens and when it gets screened,” the company says. “Navan’s new Anti-Corruption and Bribery check is designed to close that gap.”
The Anti-Corruption and Bribery check can be turned on with a single click, and every transaction is screened silently so compliance teams can navigate global risk without alerting potentially non-compliant individuals, Navan says.
The Audit Engine is now available for all Navan customers globally, and the new Anti-Corruption and Bribery check is currently in beta with plans for a full global rollout soon.
More information about Navan can be found here.
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