Screen individuals and businesses against watchlists, PEP databases, sanctions lists, and other relevant sources.
Assess your customers, suppliers, employees, business partners, and other counterparties before and throughout any business, employment, or contractual relationship.
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Screen against national and international sanctions and restricted-party lists.
Compare, review, score, and classify potential matches.
Identify Politically Exposed Persons and related parties to strengthen counterparty risk assessments.
Schedule recurring screenings to identify changes involving customers, suppliers, and other third parties.
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Maintain a complete history of screenings and results to support monitoring, internal controls, and audits.
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Screening AML is the process of checking individuals and companies against restricted-party lists, sanctions lists, Politically Exposed Persons records, background sources, and other relevant databases. Its purpose is to identify potential warning signs before starting or continuing a business, employment, or contractual relationship.
Restricted-party screening helps determine whether an individual or company appears in connection with sanctions, unlawful activity, reputational risk, or other matters relevant to due diligence. The results help the organization assess the counterparty and make decisions based on the identified level of risk.
AML Screening may include domestic and international sanctions lists, restricted-party lists, terrorism-related lists, Politically Exposed Persons records, legally relevant background sources, and other compliance databases. Coverage should be defined according to the country, industry, operations, and internal policies of each organization.
A Politically Exposed Person, or PEP, is an individual who holds or has held a prominent public function and may therefore present heightened exposure to certain risks. Depending on the applicable rules, the assessment may also include family members, close associates, and related entities.
AML Screening may be applied to customers, suppliers, employees, candidates, partners, shareholders, ultimate beneficial owners, legal representatives, contractors, and other counterparties. The scope should follow the organization’s risk-based approach and onboarding policies.
Screening should be performed before establishing a relationship and updated throughout its lifecycle. It may also be repeated when data, risk level, ownership structure, or the underlying screening sources change.
A match does not automatically mean that the screened individual or company is the same party shown in the source record. The result should be reviewed using additional identifiers such as full name, identification number, date of birth, nationality, location, and related entities. It may then be classified as a false, potential, or confirmed match.
A match is a similarity detected between screened data and a source record. An AML alert is the event created so that the match can be reviewed, analyzed, and documented before a risk decision is made.
No. AML Screening is one component of due diligence. It does not replace identity verification, beneficial ownership assessment, business activity review, source-of-funds analysis, geographic risk assessment, or understanding the purpose of the relationship.