Sanctions and PEPs
Helping hundreds of businesses screen millions of records every day to ensure comprehensive sanction and PEP compliance.
Transform your sanction, PEP and adverse media screening
✔ 9.5m+ profiles accessible for comprehensive sanction, PEP and adverse media coverage.
✔ 500+ regulatory lists to ensure global risk management.
✔ 85% less false positives from configurable rules, saving you time and speeding up decision making.
✔ 95% reduction in team workloads when combined with our outsourced AML service to review potential sanction and PEP matches.
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Sanctions, PEPs and Adverse Media
- Global data coverage for Sanctions, PEPs, Adverse media and State-Owned company data.
- Select either an individual provider of watchlist data or combine providers, deploying Dow Jones Risk and Compliance, Acuris Risk Intelligence Data, regulatory lists or bring your own data.
- Combined profiles detailing known associates, images, sources and context to streamline reviews.
Highly Configurable Screening
- Prevent missed matches with our multi-dimensional screening approach.
- Reduce false positives to minimise impact on your team.
- Establish multiple screening approaches to target the different risks in your business.
Ongoing Monitoring
- Continual compliance with sanction and PEP regulations with daily emerging risk monitoring.
- Prevent spikes in workloads by removing the need for periodic rescreening.
- Efficient resolution through alert configurations and profile change tracking.
Match Review Outsourcing
- Effective use of your AML budget, by only paying for the resources you need.
- Supporting your business with on-going workloads or a one off project.
- Benefit from the experience and expertise of our team of Analysts.
Work Flow
- Ensure alerts are directed to the correct team for timely review, with the workflow solution that hastily routes alerts to specific work queues based on multiple, tailored factors.
- Further define referral and escalation routes to enforce your unique business processes and operations, with unique alert routing based on PEP, Sanction and Adverse media Watchlist data.
Reporting
- Gain deep insights into your screening data. Identify active risks, data trends and system utilisation for a comprehensive view of your business operations.
- Understand the current position of your workloads, performance of teams and overall efficiency.
Built for Speed and Volume
- Promptly screen through our web platform, batch interface and API options to identify sanction and PEP risks.
- Requests are processed with sub-second performance for fast Sanction and PEP screening.
System Migration Service
- Complimentary migration service to transfer data from your current solution to our watchlist Guard service.
- Seamless migration ensures an uninterrupted Sanctions and PEP screening service.
- Direct support from our technical team during the transition period.
How can we help your business?
Get in touchWhat is Watchlist Screening?
Watchlist Screening checks your client’s details against global data sets of sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEPs), including relatives and associates, and adverse media. Quickly identifying relationships with high-risk individuals can help protect your business against the higher AML and CTF risks associated with them and contributing towards a risk-based approach.
Why do I need to screen customers?
Screening clients and business relationships is a vital element of any KYC and AML operation, in order to understand your client and prevent an accidental relationship with a sanctioned party, or to assess and adjust relationships with high risk customers.
Monitoring screened customers helps to keep you up to date, and alert you to newly sanctioned parties, enabling you to quickly modify or terminate relationships.
What types of watchlists can be screened against?
Watchlists covering politically exposed persons (PEPs) and relatives or close associates (RCAs) can help to identify high risk clients or business relationships, covering government officials, high ranking armed forces staff, civil servants, legislation, judiciary members and more.
Sanctions screening is a vital part of client screening, as any relationship or business dealings with sanctioned individuals or entities can lead to heavy fines and prosecution. The most prominent sanctions regimes come from HMT, OFAC ,the EU and UN, but lists are published by governments around the world.
Special interest data can be screened via commercial sources such as Dow Jones and Acuris Risk Intelligence, to identify entities at higher risk for money laundering and terrorist financing. Categories such as organised crime, terrorism, corruption, bribery and trafficking help you to apply risk ratings and generate risk assessments.
Screen against adverse media risks, particularly useful in high-risk industries and relationships, covering topics such as insolvencies, reputational risk exposure events and law enforcement events.
When screening entities, screening against exclusion lists and regulatory enforcements can help analyse solvency, AML competencies and other regulatory notices.
