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Learn the work, not just the tool.
Plain-language guides on screening, monitoring and keeping a record you can defend, and a glossary for the terms that trip people up.
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Report finder
Tell us who you are checking and get the right reports.
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Cost of checking by hand
See what manual checks cost your team each year.
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Readiness check
Ten questions, an instant score and where to start.
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Checklist builder
A due-diligence checklist for any counterparty.
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Guides
Short, practical and written for the person doing the checking.
SCREENING
What counts as a sanctions match, and what to do with a possible one
How scores, aliases and dates of birth work, and the steps a reviewer takes before calling a match.
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MONITORING
Screening versus monitoring: when you need each
One-off checks answer a question today. Monitoring tells you when the answer changes.
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EVIDENCE
How to keep an audit trail an examiner will accept
What to record, how to freeze it, and how a third party can verify it later.
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REPORTS
Reading a screening report: result, findings and coverage
A walk through each part of a report and what to do next.
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RULES
Setting up transaction rules and testing them before they go live
Why a backtest over past activity beats guessing a threshold.
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VENDORS
Vendor due diligence in one afternoon
The lists, registers and documents to check, in a sensible order.
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PRACTICE
What “not a decision” means in practice
Why a tool should speed the work and leave the decision to a person.
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READINESS
Preparing for a SOC 2 audit when you are small
Controls to write down first, and evidence to start collecting now.
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PRIVACY
Handling an erasure request from someone you screened
What you can delete, what you must keep, and how to log it.
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Glossary highlights
Sixteen of our 150 terms. The full glossary is searchable.
Sanctions list
A government list of people, companies and countries that others may not do business with.
PEP
Politically exposed person: someone in a prominent public role, or close to one, who carries higher corruption risk.
KYB
Know your business: confirming who a company is, who owns it and that it exists.
UBO
Ultimate beneficial owner: the real person who owns or controls a company, however many layers sit between.
Adverse media
Credible negative news about a subject, such as fraud or sanctions evasion.
Fuzzy matching
Matching names that are close but not identical, such as spelling variants and transliterations.
False positive
An alert that looks like a match but is not. A good tool reduces them without hiding real ones.
Coverage table
A report section that names which sources were searched and which could not be.
Evidence hash
A fingerprint of a saved record. If the record changes, the fingerprint no longer matches.
Audit trail
A time-ordered log of who did what, kept so it can be reviewed later.
Legal hold
A rule that stops records from being deleted while they may be needed.
Replay
Running a past check again to see what it would say now, with the difference shown.
Backtest
Running a rule over past activity to see what it would have flagged, before switching it on.
Idempotency key
A value you send so that a repeated request is processed once, not twice.
Webhook
A message our system sends to yours when something happens, such as an alert.
SCIM
A standard way for your identity provider to add and remove users automatically.
Put it into practice.
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