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Customer Onbarding and Monitoring
You can create an AML Control Program when you first open an account to a customer based on their risk levels by scanning them in more than 3000 Global Sanctions lists, PEPs Lists, and Adverse Media Data updated every 15 minutes.
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Screening and Monitoring Tool
You can perform PEP, Sanction, Remittance, Payment, Vessel, and Aircraft Screening using AML Name Scanning Software. You can also check Ultimate Beneficial Ownership for your companies. Screening and check operations can be performed single or batch with options such as Name, Identity, Passport Number.
Automated Daily Ongoing Monitoring
You can plan the control period according to your customers' risk levels with Automated Daily Ongoing Monitoring. All customer monitoring checks are performed automatically. As a result, Automated Daily Ongoing Monitoring protects your businesses from risks.
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Powerful API for AML Solutions
You can integrate Sanction Scanner into your project within a day. It supports all the features of our API/AML solutions. We automate your business' AML Control Processes with a powerful API that has been powered by Webhook and reduce your workload. Webhook provides two-way data transfer between Sanction Scanner and your project.
Why is Sanction Scanner Different?
Translate Results
Translate your query results into your language
Local List Management
You can add your local blacklist and whitelist to the system.
Parametric Monitoring Settings
Customize which lists you want to run your scans and match rate for your business.
Case Management
You can check your business' scanning history and access your old scans easily.
Enhanced Profile
View all results using one profile and determine the level of risk fast.
Reduce False Positive
Reduce false positives and strengthen your compliance process.
Search Support in All Alphabets
You can scan your customers with any alphabet using our Name Screening software. Sanction Scanner can translate results into many languages.
“Sanction Scanner's software is easy to use, and we enjoy working with it. Since implementing its solution, we have significantly reduced false positives. The time and effort we previously spent on false positive alarms can now be directed towards other aspects of the business, which contributes to its growth.”
Guy Shaked
Legal Counsel at ironSource
“What I like best about Sanction Scanner is its real-time screening capability and automated alerts. It helps us detect potential matches instantly and take immediate action, which is critical for our AML compliance.”
Tolgahan Kapanci
Head of Compliance at PeP
“With Sanction Scanner, we offer a fast, easy, and secure customer onboarding process. Thanks to its enhanced scanning tool, we focus on real risks, not false positives. Thus, we can meet our AML obligations and our customers' expectations.”
Arda Akay
Head of Compliance at BPN
“Sanction Scanner provided us the most comprehensive database to screen our clients. It includes lists from all over the world and is always up-to-date.”
Gulnihal Akartepe
Global Vice President at TPAY
“With Sanction Scanner, we reduce the risks of money laundering and terrorist financing by controlling on local and international lists also to avoid risks during our onboarding process.”
Oğuzhan Akın
Money Remittance Sr. Director at United Payment
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AML Name Screening
Name screening is the process of checking individuals or entities against global watchlists—such as sanctions, PEP, and adverse media databases—to detect risk before onboarding or transacting. It’s a critical AML control to prevent exposure to financial crime.
It helps identify clients linked to money laundering, terrorism, or sanctions violations early—reducing legal, financial, and reputational risk during onboarding or KYC refresh.
Name screening tools scan multiple sources, including:
• Global sanctions lists (OFAC, UN, EU, UK HMT)
• Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) lists
• Law enforcement records (FBI, Interpol)
• Adverse media (real-time news and negative coverage)
Name screening targets the identity of customers or counterparties; transaction screening evaluates the content of payments (e.g., sender, receiver, message fields) in real time.
Sanction Scanner uses fuzzy logic, match scoring thresholds, and NLP to identify similar names—even when misspelled or transliterated. It supports:
• Phonetic and cultural variations
• Multi-language input
• Real-time database sync
• Configurable match sensitivity
Fuzzy matching identifies name variants (e.g., Ali Mohammad vs. Ali M. Mohamad) using phonetic and pattern analysis. It’s essential for detecting risk that traditional exact-matching would miss.
False positives can be minimized by:
• Adjusting match scoring thresholds
• Using contextual filtering (e.g., DOB, nationality)
• Enabling multi-field matching (e.g., name + location)
Sanction Scanner’s precision-focused engine ensures fewer irrelevant alerts without compromising risk coverage.
Yes. Our APIs enable real-time screening during:
• Customer onboarding
• Periodic KYC reviews
• High-risk transaction approvals
This ensures immediate decisioning and audit traceability.
Name screening is essential for:
• Banks and fintechs
• Payment and remittance firms
• Crypto exchanges
• Insurance and legal firms
• Real estate and accounting services
Any regulated business dealing with onboarding or transactions must comply.
Missed matches can lead to:
• Regulatory fines (millions in some cases)
• Breach of international sanctions
• Loss of banking licenses or correspondent partners
• Reputational and legal damage
Yes. FATF, EU AMLD, FinCEN, and other regulators require institutions to screen all customers and beneficial owners against sanctions and PEP lists.
At onboarding and continuously. Ongoing screening ensures institutions detect any new sanctions, media exposure, or PEP status changes.
Yes. Our API-first architecture allows screening to be embedded directly into CRMs, onboarding flows, and case management systems.
Absolutely. Every match, decision, and action is logged in an audit-ready format for regulatory reviews and internal compliance tracking.
Yes. You can apply different match thresholds and workflows for retail, corporate, or high-risk clients to align with your internal policies.
Yes. In addition to global sanctions and PEP sources, Sanction Scanner allows organizations to upload and screen against custom internal lists—such as banned clients, partner blacklists, or industry-specific risk databases—ensuring full flexibility in your compliance framework.