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Any user with access to a case can review entity screening results. Configuring the EU/APAC region setting and billing is typically restricted to admins [confirm exact role before publishing]. Entity screening reports are billable per report; contact support@firstaml.com for pricing.


Summary


This article covers the Entity Screening module. An entity, in this context, is any company, trust, or other organisation you're screening within a case, as opposed to an individual.

Entity screening runs automatically for every entity that enters the platform. If your account is configured for the EU (European Union), you can opt out of this; if it's configured for APAC (Asia-Pacific), you opt in instead.

Results are easy to review, report on, and audit against sanctions and adverse media matches. Once an entity has an initial match, it's monitored daily, and nominated people at your firm get email updates when its screening status changes.


How to review results


Go to the Manifest tab and expand the entity you want to review. The Screening report requirement shows Completed when there is nothing to review, or an alert summary in red when there are hits to check, for example "Sanction hits +2 more". 

To open the report, select requirement to review the results.





What do the screening categories mean?


Adverse Media — negative information linking an individual or entity to corruption, money laundering, terrorism or threat financing, or other unlawful activity, found across news or other publications.

Sanctions — lists imposed by governments and international organisations against entities that breach international norms. Entities on a sanctions list are statutorily banned from doing business in or with the jurisdiction imposing the sanction.

Warnings — lists issued by law enforcement or regulators. Entities on these lists are involved in law-breaking, under investigation, or found guilty of a regulatory breach, and may carry financial, compliance, or reputational risk.

Fitness & Probity — lists of entities disqualified or restricted from holding certain positions or activities, such as publicly funded contracts, due to a regulatory or conduct breach.


 

Where to record your decision


Open the entity's screening report to see its screening status, potential matches, and the reason for each match. Click a match to open a slide-out on the right with its underlying sources and extra detail.

To record your decision at the report level:

  1. Click Edit next to the screening header. This opens a pop-up.

  2. Set a status for each section: No Match, Possible Match, or Match.

  3. Add notes if you want to record why.

  4. Click Save.



To review and record a decision on an individual hit:

  1. Click the hit to see its key information, background sources, a link to the original source, and a snippet of the content.

  2. Set the hit's match status: Review required, False Match, True Match, or Possible Match.

  3. To add an internal note, click Expand review details at the top of the module, enter your note, and click Save note. This records your name and the review date against the hit.







How to control ongoing monitoring for a hit


If ongoing monitoring is enabled for the case, each hit has a Monitoring enabled toggle that controls whether future updates to that hit are included in your alerts. This keeps alerts relevant by cutting noise from hits you've already ruled out.

All hits default to monitoring enabled. Setting a hit's status to False Match automatically turns this off, though you can switch it back on manually. When a monitoring update comes in for a hit, we check its monitoring setting before creating an alert.

To change it, open the hit and use the Monitoring enabled toggle.




How to filter matches and hits


When there are a lot of results, you can filter to narrow them down:

Status — False Match, True Match, Possible Match, Not Reviewed.

Category — Sanctions, Adverse Media, Warnings, Fitness & Probity.

Notes — Has notes, Does not have notes.

Click the Filters icon above the results list to set these.



How to make bulk screening decisions


Bulk mode helps you clear large numbers of likely false positives at once.

  1. Click Bulk mode.

  2. Select the hits you want to update, or select all.

  3. Set a match status for the selection: Review required, False Match, True Match, or Possible Match.

  4. Add a note if needed; it's recorded against every hit in the selection.

  5. Choose whether the selected hits should be included in or excluded from ongoing monitoring.

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How to add exceptions


  1. Go to the entity from the Manifest tab.

  2. Click the alert icon at the top right.

  3. Add a temporary or permanent exception.




How to download screening results


  1. Go to the entity's screening report.

  2. Click the printer icon at the top right.

  3. In the print window, change the destination to Save as PDF.

  4. Click Save.


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