NCS Analytics and CRB Monitor Form Data Alliance for Cannabis Risk

Financial institutions struggling to bridge the gap between regulatory status and operational reality now have a unified data source. NCS Analytics and CRB Monitor have entered a strategic partnership to merge licensing records with real-time behavioral insights, aiming to standardize due diligence and risk assessment for the cannabis industry.

Money Talk·August 20, 2026·reads: 2,310

The collaboration integrates CRB Monitor’s database—which tracks over 265,000 cannabis licenses and 100,000 business entities—directly into the NCS Analytics platform. By layering this regulatory record over NCS’s behavioral and predictive analytics, the firms seek to provide lenders and compliance officers with a singular, high-fidelity view of a business's health and risk profile.

Adam Crabtree, founder and CEO of NCS Analytics, noted that assessing a cannabis business requires more than fragmented data streams. By combining identity and licensing credentials with real-time operational performance, the partnership enables stakeholders to move beyond static checks. Steven Kemmerling, CEO of CRB Monitor, emphasized that this integration answers the industry’s most pressing question: whether a business is safe to engage with based on both its legal standing and its daily operational conduct.