Guides
Practical, number-backed answers to the questions compliance and engineering teams ask before and after integrating sanctions screening.
Compliance
AML name screening: how it works, where it fails, and what to measure
What AML name screening actually does, why exact-match tools miss listed people, how fuzzy and dictionary matching differ, and the three numbers to demand from any vendor.
Compliance
How to run an OFAC check (manually and by API)
Step-by-step OFAC sanctions check: the free Treasury search tool, what SDN versus Consolidated means, how to read a hit, and how to do the same thing…
Buying guide
Sanctions screening APIs compared: what to check before you integrate
A buyer's checklist for sanctions screening APIs — list coverage, refresh cadence, cross-script matching, audit trail, pricing model — with honest no…
Compliance
False positives in sanctions screening: where they come from and how to cut them by half
The four sources of sanctions false positives — common names, missing birth dates, weak aliases, low thresholds — and concrete settings that reduce r…
Engineering
Fuzzy matching for sanctions screening: trigrams, phonetics, symbols — and what each one misses
An engineer's explanation of the matching techniques behind sanctions screening — normalisation, trigram similarity, phonetic keys, name-symbol dicti…
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