Screening

Screening: Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) & PEP classification
TABLE OF CONTENTS What is a Politically Exposed Person? Defining a Politically Exposed Person How do PEP classes work? Level 1 Level 2 Lev...
Wed, 18 Sep, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Screening: How to review screening matches
Reviewing: match hits You can review the match hits for an individual or entity by navigating to the ‘Verifications’ tab for the individual or entity withi...
Wed, 18 Sep, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Screening: Why are there hits where the date of birth and countries do not match my search terms?
You may sometimes find that a matched Entity in your case has a Year of Birth (YOB) that is over one year away from the YOB you input into the platform. Or ...
Wed, 18 Sep, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Screening: Adverse media definitions & categories
TABLE OF CONTENTS How do you define Adverse Media? FATF-Aligned Adverse Media Taxonomy What languages are available for Adverse Media articles Do you c...
Wed, 18 Sep, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Screening: What is your time frame for defining a PEP?
PEP data time period As our platform needs to comply with many screening requirements across the world, as a general rule of thumb, we take the path of the...
Wed, 18 Sep, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Screening: Criminal activity
We do not explicitly cover criminal activity as we do not currently conduct criminal record checks for our clients. However, if the individual or business ...
Wed, 18 Sep, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Screening: Fuzzy matching
What is Fuzziness? Fuzziness (Edit/Levenshtein Distance) is a matching technique that allows for a variation in spelling or small variations in the spellin...
Wed, 18 Sep, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Data sources & update cadence
Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) Our search algorithm expects major updates to occur after elections. Our screening tool will follow election news and up...
Wed, 18 Sep, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Individual screening
TABLE OF CONTENTS Summary How to review results Where to review and record your decision How to Whitelist Matches How to filter Matches and Hits How...
Thu, 10 Oct, 2024 at 3:29 AM
Ongoing monitoring
Summary First AML’s ongoing monitoring feature allows you to receive daily updates on new and changing matches within your database, for individuals and en...
Thu, 10 Oct, 2024 at 3:28 AM