Sanction Scanner Blog

Sanction Scanner has been named a G2 Leader in Anti-Money Laundering for the third year in a row, earning 22 placements across four categories in G2's Summer 2026 reports — including four Leader badges and #1 rankings in the AML Mid-Market Results and Usability indexes.

A practitioner’s guide to writing transaction monitoring rules and scenarios, including rule anatomy, the core rule library, risk based calibration, the false positive trade off, sandbox testing and regulator ready documentation.

Friendly fraud is rising fast and your real customers may be behind it. Learn how first-party fraud works, why chargebacks are exploding, and how to detect and prevent dispute abuse before it hits your bottom line.

A practitioner's guide to money mule detection: onboarding, behavioral, and network signals, why per-account screening misses 80%+ of mules, and how to stop mule accounts within the 24–72h cycle.

Discover the meaning and details about primary and secondary sanctions, learn about Iran, Russia, and North Korea secondary sanctions, and compliance implications for non-US firms in “Secondary Sanctions: How OFAC Reaches Non-US Persons” article. Learn more about the significant transaction standard, CAATSA, recent enforcement examples, and how to manage secondary sanctions risk.

Learn how SIM swap fraud hijacks mobile numbers, why SMS 2FA fails, and how carriers, banks, and regulators are working to detect and prevent it.

AML transaction monitoring and fraud detection are often confused, but they answer different questions, run on different timelines, and report to different regulators. This guide explains the differences and how to combine both.

Discover the meaning and details about financial crime compliance, learn about the regulatory framework, and core components of a financial crime compliance program in “Financial Crime Compliance: What It Means and What Regulators Expect” article. Learn more about the cost of non-compliance, the technologies role and its change in time in this sector and how Sanction Scanner supports end-to-end financial crime compliance.

OFAC's 50% Rule blocks entities owned by SDNs — even if they're not on the SDN list. Learn how indirect ownership triggers sanctions, and how to screen for it.