Vendor Risk Management
Screen, onboard, and monitor your vendors confidently with AuthBridge’s AI-powered Vendor Risk Management solution. Ensure regulatory compliance, avoid reputational risks, and build a resilient supply chain.
Challenges in Vendor Risk Management
Superficial Due Diligence
Limited checks miss deeper financial, legal, or reputational risks.
Manual Workflows
Email- and spreadsheet-based processes slow decisions and invite errors.
Regulatory Non-Compliance
Failure to meet norms from RBI, SEBI, or GDPR can lead to penalties.
No Real-Time Monitoring
Risk profiles evolve, but static checks miss red flags like defaults or litigation.
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Vendor Risk Management Solution Features
Automated Due Diligence
Risk-Based Tiering
Continuous Monitoring
Centralised Vendor Repository
Regulatory Compliance Ready
Easy Integrations
Automated Due Diligence
Instant 360° View:
Access real-time vendor insights across financial, legal, compliance, and reputational domains
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Checks and APIs:
- Vendor KYC API: Verifies business identity, incorporation, and director information.
- GST & PAN Validation API: Confirms tax registration and document authenticity.
Risk-Based Tiering
Smart Verification Depth:
Tailor due diligence based on vendor risk levels—saving time and resources.
Checks and APIs:
- Risk Segmentation Engine: Monitor transactions continuously to flag suspicious activities.
- Dynamic Workflow Engine: Triggers appropriate checks based on risk category
Continuous Monitoring
Ongoing Risk Intelligence
Detect vendor status changes like credit score drops or legal flags—before they impact you
Checks and API’s
- Litigation Watchlist API: Tracks new legal cases involving vendors.
- GST Activity Monitor: Flags inactivity or discrepancies in tax filings.
- Negative Due Diligence: Sends alerts for reputational risks in real-time.
Centralised Vendor Repository
Single Source of Truth:
Store, access, and manage all vendor documents, risk scores, and statuses from one unified dashboard.
Checks and APIs
- Vendor Profile API: Fetch consolidated vendor data across modules.
- Document Vault API: Secure upload and retrieval of all KYC and onboarding documents.
Regulatory Compliance Ready
Audit-Ready Always:
Stay compliant with SEBI, RBI, IRDAI, GDPR and more through trackable consent and due diligence.
Checks and API’s
- Consent API: Capture and store vendor consent as per DPDPA/GDPR.
- Audit Log API: Access activity logs for every action and verification.
- Compliance Workflow Engine: Automates policy-driven verifications based on regulatory requirements.
Easy Integrations
Tailored Monitoring:
Allows financial institutions to customize monitoring rules to fit specific compliance requirements.
Checks and APIs
- Alert Management API: Manage alerts triggered by custom AML rules.
- Rule Configuration API: Create and adjust AML rules specific to your business.
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Clear Insights, Clear Decisions.
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0 %
of organisations faced a third-party security breach in the past year due to vendor vulnerabilities
0 %
of companies don’t have a full inventory of all third parties with whom they share sensitive data
$ 1 Mn
is the average cost of a data breach in 2022, often linked to third-party compromise
Trusted Risk Intelligence to Power Confident Vendor Decisions
Leverage AuthBridge’s curated databases to screen vendors for financial, regulatory, reputational, and criminal risks before you onboard.
Business Verification Database
Verify vendor GSTIN, CIN, incorporation details, and active status via MCA and government records.
Financial Risk
Database
Assess vendor creditworthiness with 3 lakh+ records of financial defaults, NPAs, and delayed repayments.
Litigation Watchlist
Covers 5 lakh+ cases from district and high courts, NCLT, DRT, and regulatory bodies to flag vendors under litigation.
Sanctions & Watchlist Database
Scan vendors against global watchlists including OFAC, UN, EU, RBI, and domestic blacklists.
Corporate Linkages
Database
Identify vendor relationships with shell entities, debarred directors, or high-risk businesses.
FEMA & Regulatory Non-Compliance Database
Check for foreign exchange violations, SEBI actions, and compliance defaults across 800+ verified sources.
Hear it from the Leaders in the Business
Ensuring ESG compliance across a diverse supplier base was a complex challenge for us at GHCL. With Authbridge’s Supplier ESG Check solution, we streamlined assessments, improved data accuracy, and gained actionable ESG insights. The platform’s ease of use and the team’s expertise helped us build a more transparent and resilient supply chain. Today, we make faster decisions with greater confidence in our ESG compliance, and consider Authbridge a key partner in our sustainability journey. 
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Vendor Risk Management is the process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks associated with third-party vendors and suppliers. It helps ensure vendors meet compliance, financial, operational, and security standards.
VRM is critical for reducing operational disruptions, regulatory penalties, data breaches, and reputational damage. It ensures that your vendors do not expose your business to financial, legal, or compliance risks.
AuthBridge’s VRM covers financial risk, criminal and litigation risk, regulatory non-compliance, reputational risk, sanction exposure, and business identity verification.
We use a combination of proprietary databases, public records, regulatory sources (e.g., MCA, SEBI, RBI), and global watchlists (e.g., OFAC, UN) to deliver accurate and real-time insights.
Yes. Our vendor risk intelligence APIs and dashboards can be seamlessly integrated with ERP, procurement, and compliance systems for continuous monitoring and automated onboarding.
Our databases are updated regularly—some in real time and others daily or weekly—depending on the source, to ensure your decisions are based on the latest information.
Yes. Our solutions align with industry regulations including GDPR, ISO 27001, FCPA, PMLA, and anti-bribery compliance frameworks to support both local and global vendor due diligence.
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Vendor Onboarding Solutions: A Comprehensive Guide
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Key Types of Vendor Risks to Manage
Financial Risks – Vendor insolvency or poor financial health can disrupt supply chains.
Compliance Risks – Non-adherence to GDPR, RBI, SEBI, AML, or ESG guidelines can result in penalties.
Operational Risks – Inconsistent service delivery, supply chain bottlenecks, or poor scalability.
Cybersecurity Risks – Vendor data breaches, weak security controls, or malware risks.
Reputational Risks – Association with unethical vendors impacting brand trust.
Geopolitical & ESG Risks – Vendors in politically unstable or non-compliant regions affecting long-term viability.
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Best Practices for Vendor Risk Management
Automate Risk Assessments: Use AI-powered VRM tools to streamline risk scoring and continuous monitoring.
Adopt a Risk-Based Approach: Segment vendors as high, medium, or low risk and apply appropriate due diligence depth.
Integrate VRM with Procurement & ERP: Ensure vendor risk insights are embedded directly into your supply chain workflows.
Continuous Monitoring: Move beyond one-time onboarding checks; use adverse media, credit reports, and real-time alerts.
Centralised Vendor Database: Maintain a single source of truth for vendor performance, compliance, and risk history.
Regular Training & Awareness: Educate internal teams and vendors on compliance requirements, cybersecurity standards, and data protection.
Top Vendor Risk Management Solution Providers in 2025
- AuthBridge — Top Differentiators & Features
360° vendor risk view: financial, compliance, legal, reputational
Risk-based tiering: vendors classified by risk (low / medium / high) → different levels of due diligence
Continuous monitoring: detects adverse media, credit changes, legal & regulatory alerts after onboarding
Centralised vendor repository with document storage, audit trails & risk history
Regulatory compliance & audit readiness; local regulatory integrations (e.g. GST, PAN in India)
Easily integrable via APIs: PAN, GST, legal & identity checks
Workflow automation: approvals, escalation, trigger-based checks
Emphasis on data security, consent & privacy in vendor checks
- Vanta – Security & compliance automation; strong continuous technical risk detection
Centraleyes – Combines internal risk + vendor risk; good for enterprise compliance dashboards
BitSight – Cyber risk ratings and external exposure monitoring of vendors
LogicGate – Highly customizable workflows, conditional scoring, flexible vendor questionnaires
RSA Archer – GRC-oriented; mature in contract, policy, risk, compliance tracking
Riskonnect – Vendor docs + contract tracking; good dashboards & supplier oversight
Venminder – Strong in onboarding/offboarding, vendor contract and document workflow and oversight
Fusion RM – Focuses on continuous monitoring, risk exposure across vendor ecosystem
D&B Risk Analytics – Deep data & financial stability insights; strong business profile data
