Streamlining Compliance and Messaging: How Vista Guinee Transformed Operations

Situation

One Platform. Full Visibility. Total Control.

Vista Guinee, a rapidly growing financial institution in West Africa, recognized the need to modernize its compliance and messaging infrastructure as regulatory expectations increased across the region.
The bank required a unified platform that could automate sanctions screening, streamline message management, and provide secure access to the global Swift network.

To achieve this, Vista Guinee partnered with Eastnets to implement an integrated suite of solutions:

• SafeWatch Screening (SWS) – for real-time and batch screening against global sanctions lists

• Eastnets Messaging Warehouse (EMW) – for full message lifecycle tracking, search, and auditing

• Swift Alliance Access (SAA) – for secure, reliable, and uninterrupted Swift connectivity

Together, these solutions now power a centralized compliance and messaging ecosystem, increasing efficiency, visibility, and operational resilience.

Task

Laying the Foundation for Scalable Compliance

To keep pace with accelerated AML enforcement and evolving local and global regulations, Vista Guinee needed to significantly enhance its operational capabilities. Key priorities included:

• Ensuring compliance with global AML regulations

• Automating real-time and batch screening for transactions and customers

• Improving traceability and auditability of Swift messages

• Maintaining secure and uninterrupted Swift network access

The challenge was not just adding new tools — it was building an integrated, scalable, and future-ready platform that unified compliance screening and financial messaging under a single operational layer