Risk & compliance
Global sanctions & PEP
Screen against global watchlists, sanctions regimes, politically exposed persons and adverse media in a single continuous search.
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- 4list families screened
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Four list families, at a glance
Continuous screening against global sanctions, PEP lists and adverse media. Hover a card for what it covers.
Hover, focus or tap a source to see what it covers
Watch a near-miss get cleared, not just a green tick
Screening produces candidates, not answers. Pick a source to watch it run — the name going in, the fuzzy candidates it throws up, and the identifier work that decides whether a hit is real.
Five fields, scored per list
A single continuous search covers every field below. Open one to see the match confidence and what corroborated or cleared it.
Name-match confidence, per list
How closely the candidate's name and aliases score against each screened list.
Four list families, one search
Open a card to see exactly what each source contributes to a screening result.
OFAC, UN, EU, HMT lists
The four consolidated sanctions lists enterprises are expected to screen against — US Treasury OFAC, the UN Security Council, the EU consolidated list and UK HM Treasury.
Interpol notices
Public Red, Yellow and Diffusion notices, matched on name and available biometric or document identifiers.
PEP databases
Politically exposed persons and their immediate family and close associates, sourced from commercial PEP databases refreshed daily.
Adverse media
News and regulatory-filing search for fraud, corruption, sanctions-evasion or serious misconduct allegations, scored for name corroboration before a hit is surfaced.
From identity capture to a cleared or held match
Screening starts the moment identity is captured — it does not wait for a separate request.
Identity captured once
Name, date of birth and nationality are captured once, at the same point identity verification runs, so sanctions screening never waits on a separate form.
All four list families screened at once
Sanctions lists, Interpol notices, PEP databases and adverse media are queried in a single continuous search — this is what keeps the check inside minutes for a clean result.
Fuzzy matches reviewed by a person
A name-match score alone never closes a case — a reviewer confirms or clears it against date of birth, nationality and other corroborating detail before the check is signed off.
A hold, and a clean pass, side by side
Not just a happy path — switch between a live fuzzy-match hold and a clean result to see how each one reaches a reviewer, with the corroborating evidence attached exactly as they'd see it.
A fuzzy match against a consolidated sanctions list
- Watchlist exposure
- No sanctions or watchlist exposure
- Potential match — EU Consolidated List entry, 91% name-variant similarity
- Date of birth
- 14 Aug 1994
- Consistent with the listed entry
- Nationality
- Indian
- Listed entry shows no nationality on record
Read the adjudicator's note
A 91% name-variant match with a corroborating date of birth is not an automatic fail — it is a hold. The case does not clear or close on its own; it sits with the adjudicator until a human confirms or rules out the match against the listed entry's other identifiers.
- Method
- Fuzzy name-matching across transliterated variants, with date-of-birth corroboration run automatically before the match is surfaced to a reviewer.
- Source
- EU Consolidated List, via continuous screening feed
- Captured
- 22 Mar 2026, 09:15 IST
- Retention
- Screening record retained for the length of the engagement plus 3 years, per standard AML documentation practice.
A common name that clears on the first pass
- Watchlist exposure
- No sanctions or watchlist exposure
- 0 matches across OFAC, UN, EU and HMT lists
- PEP designation
- No political exposure
- No PEP designation found
- Adverse media
- Not applicable
- 0 corroborated hits
Read the adjudicator's note
A common name generates more search noise than a rare one, but noise is not a match — every result below the fuzzy-match threshold clears automatically, with the search itself kept on file for audit.
- Method
- Fuzzy name-matching across transliterated variants, scored against each list independently; no result reached the review threshold.
- Source
- OFAC, UN, EU, HMT lists · PEP databases · Adverse media
- Captured
- 20 Mar 2026, 09:02 IST
- Retention
- Screening record retained for the length of the engagement plus 3 years, per standard AML documentation practice.
TAT by scenario
A clean automated result closes in minutes. What extends it is scope — global lists, extended media — or a match that needs a person.
No match, domestic hire
Global watchlist scope
Fuzzy match requiring review
Adverse media hit, 10-year lookback
Bulk screening, 500+ candidates
- Credit & financial checkCredit history, insolvency filings and undisclosed directorships.
- Court record checkCivil and criminal court records across every jurisdiction lived in.
- Identity verificationThe identifiers a sanctions screen matches against, verified first.
- All checksEvery verification Papertrail runs, browsable by category.
- PricingPer-check rates, volume tiers and the savings calculator.
Questions HR and risk teams actually ask
A fuzzy match never auto-clears or auto-fails. A reviewer compares the candidate's date of birth, nationality and other declared identifiers against the listed entry; if they don't correspond, the match is cleared and the clearance reason is recorded against the case.
OFAC's SDN list, the UN Security Council consolidated list, the EU consolidated list and UK HM Treasury's list, alongside Interpol notices and PEP databases — all in a single search, not four separate lookups.
Only immediate family and known close associates of a PEP are in scope, not any relative by name coincidence. A shared surname with no verified family link does not generate a hit.
Where contracted for continuous monitoring, the candidate's profile is re-checked against list updates on an ongoing basis rather than only at the point of hire — sanctions lists change more often than annual re-screening would catch.
Published reporting alleging fraud, corruption, sanctions evasion or comparable serious misconduct — not routine litigation or minor regulatory notices. Every hit is scored for name, employer and location corroboration before it's kept open.
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Screen every hire against every list, continuously
One search across sanctions, PEP, Interpol and adverse media — with fuzzy matches held for a person, not auto-cleared.