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SANCTIONS & WATCHLIST SCREENING SOFTWARE

Detect, interpret, and manage sanctions and watchlist risk

Screen customers, counterparties, and jurisdictions with precision matching and configurable rules to identify and resolve sanctions alerts across the customer lifecycle.

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How We Solve Sanctions & Watchlist Screening Challenges

Continuous, Real-Time Coverage

Automatic, global list updates and real-time, ongoing screening across the customer lifecycle

Data & Matching Precision

Normalize inputs, suppress duplicates, and surface only meaningful alerts

Fewer Alerts, Faster Investigations

Higher-quality alerts prioritized by risk, clear scoring logic, and explainable matches

Regulatory defensibility

Complete audit trails ensure decisions are explainable, documented, and defensible

Screening Built for Real-World Complexity

Comprehensive List Coverage

Screen individuals and entities during onboarding and ongoing monitoring against global:

  • sanctions lists

  • watchlists

  • PEP sources

  • beneficial ownership data

  • related risk datasets

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Intelligent, Precision Matching

Our award-winning AML solution is designed to work with imperfect, inconsistent, and fragmented data—reducing duplication, suppressing noise, and improving alert quality.

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“FinScan has developed a leading position in watchlist monitoring”

Phil Mackenzie, Senior Research Principal, Chartis

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“By combining advanced data quality intelligence with real-time screening, adaptive risk scoring.. .[FinScan is] improving the speed, accuracy, and explainability of sanctions”

Divya Baranawal, VP and Principal Analyst, QKS Group

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Risk-Aligned Prioritization

Alerts are routed based on risk relevance, business context, and urgency, not just match volume.

Clear Investigation Paths

Analysts see exactly why an alert was triggered, how it was scored, and what actions are required—improving speed, accuracy, and consistency.

Governance by Design

Configurable rules, workflows, and controls ensure consistent decisioning, clear accountability, and defensible compliance operations. 

Built to Scale with Your Risk Environment

Integrate seamlessly into existing technology ecosystems

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Support global, culturally-sensitive screening requirements

Evolve alongside regulatory and geopolitical change

Scale across business units and jurisdictions

Built to Scale with Your Risk Environment

FAQs

  • Sanctions and watchlist screening is the process of identifying individuals and entities that appear on sanctions lists, watchlists, and related risk lists to identify and prevent prohibited business relationships and transactions.

  • Because sanctions lists change frequently, effective programs screen at onboarding and continuously throughout the customer lifecycle to reflect list updates, risk changes, and regulatory shifts. Ongoing screening ensures organizations identify emerging risk after onboarding, not just at the initial customer relationship stage.

  • FinScan uses advanced matching and configurable rules to reduce false positives while improving detection of true risk, even when data quality is imperfect.

  • Through precision matching, configurable rules, and intelligent workflows that improve alert quality and suppress low-value noise.

  • Yes. FinScan supports local operational workflow flexibility within centralized governance and control structures while maintaining enterprise-wide consistency and oversight.

  • FinScan provides transparent workflows, traceable decisions, and comprehensive audit trails to support regulatory reviews and internal governance.

AML Doesn’t Stop There

See what else you can do with FinScan

Ready for a More Controlled and Defensible Screening Program?

Explore how FinScan helps organizations modernize sanctions and watchlist screening to improve accuracy and regulatory confidence without slowing down your operations.

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