Sanction Screening & Monitoring

Sanctions list screening is the process of screening people and entities against international and regional sanctions lists to prevent money laundering, terrorist funding, and other financial crimes.

Sanction Scanner's screening solution regularly cross-checks customer data with international sanctions lists such as OFAC, UN, and EU to discover and flag suspicious transactions.

Regulators require organizations to screen their clients to avoid doing business with sanctioned parties or individuals. Failure to do so can result in hefty fines or revocation of operating licenses.

Sanction Scanner helps organizations meet global AML compliance, reduce compliance risk, and protect their reputation by screening sanctions in an automated manner.

Most often screened sanction lists are OFAC SDN, UN Sanctions, EU Consolidated, UK HMT, and DFAT.

Sanction Scanner screens more than 3,000 international and domestic lists from more than 220 countries, offering comprehensive and up-to-date coverage for all screenings.

Continuous sanctions monitoring entails regularly screening customers and transactions in real-time during and after onboarding for new sanctions updates.

Sanction Scanner's Ongoing Monitoring scans your customer database automatically and informs you in real-time when fresh sanctions become available.

Sanctions screening is a legal requirement targeting restricted individuals. Name screening covers broader reputational risk categories like PEPs and adverse media.

Losing a sanctions match can lead to very serious consequences such as regulatory fines, frozen assets, and the withdrawal of business licenses.

Sanction Scanner minimizes the risk to almost zero using real-time alerts and continuous list refreshes, so no potential match is ever missed.

Yes. Sanction Scanner's ultimate AI-Driven fuzzy matching detects name variations, spelling variances, and aliases.

Sanction Scanner employs fuzzy logic, phonetic search, and secondary identifiers such as date of birth or location to match records effectively while keeping false positives low.

Sanctions lists update on a regular basis as governments and regulators release new updates.

Sanction Scanner updates all international lists every 15 minutes to present the most recent data and ensure your compliance team has access to the most recent information.

Sanctions screening is needed in regulated industries such as banking, payments, crypto, insurance, and legal services.

Sanction Scanner addresses all major industries and aligns with diverse regulatory frameworks, including FATF, OFAC, FCA, and EU AMLD.

Sanction Scanner offers an integrated AML platform consisting of sanctions, PEP, and watchlist screening.

With the benefit of real-time updates, fuzzy matching, and risk scoring, Sanction Scanner equips businesses with the ability to enjoy full sanctions compliance on all customer and transaction operations.

Yes. All risk-based AML frameworks, including FATF, EU AMLDs, and FinCEN guidelines, require screening at onboarding and during ongoing monitoring.

Absolutely. Sanction Scanner allows list segmentation, scoring thresholds, and region-specific workflows for more efficient screening.

Yes. Incorporating sanctions screening into onboarding or payment workflows guarantees real-time risk identification before a transaction.

Sanction Scanner's API facilitates straightforward integration with onboarding, payment, and case management systems for real-time, automated screening.

Yes. In addition to individuals, we screen legal entities, vessels, and government-linked organizations against updated sanctions records.

The alert is routed to your case management system, where compliance teams review the match, document the decision, and take action (e.g., freeze, reject, escalate).

Yes. Every screening result—whether a match or a clearance—is logged with full metadata including list source, match score, timestamp, and reviewer notes. These logs can be exported and are fully audit-ready for regulatory inspections or internal compliance reporting.