Sanctions screening
Continuous PEP, sanctions, and adverse-media screening.
Every organisation and every listed beneficial owner (≥25%) is screened against EU, UK, UN, OFAC, and 138 additional watchlists. Screening happens at verification and re-runs weekly for the life of the account.
Which lists
- EU consolidated financial-sanctions list
- UK OFSI sanctions list
- UN Security Council consolidated list
- US OFAC (SDN + sectoral sanctions)
- 138 national / regional watchlists (Norway, Switzerland, Canada, AU, NZ, etc.)
- PEP (politically-exposed-person) databases
- Adverse media · fraud, crime, and regulatory-action news
If a match is flagged
Our compliance team reviews within 4 working hours. False positives (common surname matches) are cleared; genuine matches trigger immediate account suspension, and our legal team files any required SAR (suspicious-activity report) with the relevant jurisdiction.