Sanctions and PEP screening for financial services compliance
Screen customers, beneficial owners, counterparties and payment parties against sanctions and PEP data — with Potential Matches, Match Score and source evidence to support the review decision.
Screening across the relationships you manage
Financial institutions screen across many relationship types, not one. A retail bank reviews applicants and beneficial owners at onboarding; a payment provider checks originators and beneficiaries around transactions; a wealth manager applies enhanced due diligence to politically exposed clients. The common thread is the need to see what a screening returned, why it was returned, and to retain evidence of the review that followed.
What needs to be screened or reviewed
- Individuals — customers, applicants, directors and beneficial owners.
- Organisations — corporate clients, counterparties, intermediary banks, importers and exporters.
- Where relevant, wallet addresses for institutions handling digital assets.
Relevant ClearSanction capabilities
- Sanctions and PEP screening for individuals and organisations.
- Bulk Screening for portfolio re-screening and remediation.
- Continuous Monitoring for ongoing customer due diligence.
- REST API where screening needs to originate from onboarding or payment systems.
- Case Management and Audit Reports to retain available evidence of review.
Where screening fits
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Onboarding and periodic re-screening
Screen customers and beneficial owners at onboarding, and re-screen the existing book on a defined cadence.
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Payments and transactions
Check originators, beneficiaries and trade finance counterparties around payments and transactions.
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Enhanced due diligence
Apply additional review to PEPs and higher-risk relationships identified during screening.
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Portfolio remediation
Use Bulk Screening to review legacy books and portfolios against current sanctions and PEP data.
Review and evidence
A returned record is a Potential Match for analyst review, not a confirmed match. Match Score indicates the strength of identity correspondence and can help inform analyst review.
Where further review is needed, Case Management can hold the case, decision and rationale, and Audit Reports bring together available evidence of the screening and review.
Screen across the relationships you manage
Discuss how ClearSanction fits your onboarding, payments and due-diligence processes, or start a free search.
Financial services screening — frequently asked questions
What subjects do financial institutions screen?
Customers, beneficial owners, directors, corporate counterparties and — for digital-asset businesses — wallet addresses. ClearSanction supports individual and organisation screening with PEP coverage.
Does ClearSanction integrate with our onboarding or payment systems?
The REST API lets your own systems submit supported screening requests. Implementation detail is covered in the API documentation.