Industry Intelligence Products
With the world’s most robust risk data vetted by our best-in-class experts, LegitScript helps you navigate regulatory changes and anticipate trends.
Our Industry Intelligence Is Backed by Curated Data and Regulatory Expertise
In addition to our monitoring, certification, and change detection solutions, LegitScript offers:
Risk Landscape Reports
Leverage unmatched regulatory insights to stay at the forefront of emerging trends.
Data Lookups
Access the world’s largest database of supplement, drug, and other healthcare product information.
Risk Landscape Reports
Stay one step ahead of emerging threats with our Risk Landscape Reports. This forward-looking intelligence and expert regulatory guidance helps you anticipate risks, mitigate threats, and make confident compliance decisions.
- Understand new and trending high-risk products
- Proactively address regulatory changes
- Identify clear pathways to safer, smarter operations
Data Lookups
LegitScript has the world’s largest database of high-risk healthcare intelligence — from dietary supplements to designer drugs, pharmaceuticals, and other healthcare products. Our team of regulatory experts proactively identifies and updates our data sets every day.
LegitScript’s Data Lookups provide access to:
- 250,000+ product classifications
- Regulatory information from 100+ countries
- Positive and negative merchant, product, and website insights
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What the EU’s Crackdown on Dangerous Products Online Means for You
The European Commission recently revealed a report in which it purchased many violative and dangerous products on major e-commerce platforms. This investigation may have widespread implications for these platforms and e-commerce at large. Learn more.
A Darker Shade of Pale: Hidden Risks of Skin Lightening Cosmetics
While some skin lightening products may be effective, they can come with risks that are often hidden and can even be life-threatening. Keep reading to understand risks and relevant trends with these products, and how LegitScript’s work mitigates their potential for harm.
Serial Transaction Launderers: How Fraudsters Re-ingest Into Merchant Portfolios and How to Stop Them
Despite the risks transaction laundering poses, many payments companies struggle with how to approach it. What are the fundamental tools you need to mitigate the risk of transaction laundering? In this course, we’ll discuss the tactics used by transaction launderers and share best practices for identifying fraudsters.
What You Need to Know About Sweepstakes Casinos and Social Gaming: Key Takeaways from Our Webinar
Sweepstakes casinos are gaining in popularity — and in regulatory scrutiny. In our recent webinar, we broke down the complexities of these models and the risks they present for payments providers, internet platforms, and consumers alike. Read the key takeaways.
Maverick Payments on What AI Really Means for Payment Processing
What can AI really do for payments companies — and where does it fall short? Executives from Maverick Payments and LegitScript share firsthand insights into how their organizations are approaching AI today. Register now.
Merchant Onboarding and Merchant Monitoring Buyers Guide
Merchant risk management solutions — which ones are right for your company? Compare in-house risk management to third-party solutions and tips for choosing the right provider.
Social Casinos: The Free-to-Play Trap
Many online casinos have adapted their business model to offer free-to-play sweepstakes to avoid gambling regulations, creating a gateway for young audiences to enter the world of betting. Learn more about the risks of these services and the laws governing them.
Why LegitScript Certification Is Your Passport in 2025: A Recap for Healthcare Businesses
In a dynamic regulatory landscape, certification is becoming not just an asset but a necessity for highly regulated businesses to acquire services such as payment processing. Get the recap from our latest webinar, then watch the full presentation.
Key Takeaways from LegitScript’s Webinar: Navigating Risks and Regulations in Online Abortion Pill Sales
In our recent webinar on online abortion pill sales, experts outlined how recent legal changes are reshaping access to medication abortion and highlighted emerging threats facing online platforms and payment service providers. Read our key takeaways from the presentation.
Social Gaming and Sweepstakes Casinos
New forms of online gambling present heightened risk to payment service providers through chargebacks, fraud, and reputational damage. In this webinar, learn about the regulations and risks around social gaming, sweepstakes casinos, and other forms of novel online gambling.
Merchant Onboarding Essentials: What You Need to Know
Getting onboarding right is crucial for compliance, security, and long-term growth. Keep reading to understand critical areas of risk, then use our onboarding checklist to ensure your processes are adhering to industry best practices.
Partnering for Compliance: What Platforms and Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Need to Know
Understand how pharmaceutical manufacturing has been changing, what areas are most frequently reviewed by advertising and payment platforms, and how LegitScript Certification helps manufacturers demonstrate their credibility in this dynamic landscape.
What You Need to Know About KYB in Merchant Onboarding
In the payments world, KYB is all about verifying the legitimacy of a business and the people behind it before you let them onto your platform. Keep reading to understand what KYB is, how it differs from KYC, and how best to integrate it into your workflow.
Merchant Onboarding in the Age of AI: Key Takeaways from the LegitScript Webinar
In this LegitScript-hosted webinar, expert panelists offered a pragmatic look at how artificial intelligence is reshaping the future of merchant onboarding and underwriting, and how to adapt without compromising speed or security. Read our key takeaways from the talk.
Smarter Onboarding for Payments Leaders
Is your merchant onboarding keeping up with rapidly changes to risk and competition? Learn how to future-proof your onboarding with our guide.
Merchant Onboarding: Frequently Asked Questions
Learn key insights on merchant onboarding: KYB, risk checks, AI automation, MCC accuracy, and best practices to streamline and stay compliant.
Online Abortion Pill Sales: Navigating Regulations and Problematic Activity
A patchwork of laws regarding online abortion pill sales, combined with the spread of illegal and unapproved drugs, has made online access extremely difficult to navigate. In this webinar, you’ll learn about the complex environment of online abortion pill sales and the problematic activity surrounding it.
Merchant Onboarding Best Practices for an AI-Powered Future
With changing technology making risk more complex, it’s not enough to rely on the same old onboarding processes. Payment service providers looking to stay competitive are investing in new, adaptable tools that can balance speed with accuracy and can evolve as the risk landscape changes.
Tainted Nutraceuticals: Hidden Ingredients, Real Risks
Merchants are facing increasing scrutiny for selling nutraceuticals tainted with harmful ingredients, which poses a challenge to payment processors trying to keep their portfolios free of dangerous products. Keep reading to learn more about the latest problematic products.
Is Kava Legal and Safe? What Merchants and Payment Providers Should Know
As consumers seek natural products with the same efficacy as prescription medications, they may quickly find themselves trying to navigate a landscape of inconsistent regulations and potentially misleading marketing. Among these alternative products is kava — a popular elixir with complicated regulations.