Screening

Screening: Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) & PEP Classification
What is a Politically Exposed Person? A politically exposed person (PEP) is an individual with a high-profile political role or someone who has been entrus...
Fri, 6 Oct, 2023 at 11:51 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 ...
Tue, 10 Oct, 2023 at 4:53 AM
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, 11 Oct, 2023 at 2:43 AM
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, 11 Oct, 2023 at 2:49 AM
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, 11 Oct, 2023 at 2:51 AM
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, 1 May, 2024 at 11:06 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...
Sat, 7 Oct, 2023 at 4:21 AM
Individual Screening
Summary This article runs through how to action screening results as an individual is verified.  For further information on the different verificati...
Fri, 8 Mar, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Continuous Monitoring
Summary First AML’s continuous monitoring feature allows you to receive daily updates on new and changing matches within your database, for individuals ...
Thu, 2 May, 2024 at 1:52 AM
Entity Screening
Summary This article introduces you to our Entity Screening module and how it works. Entity screening is conducted on all entities which enter the F...
Wed, 17 Jan, 2024 at 4:26 AM