AML & Sanctions
Check against 900+
global lists to evaluate customer risk profile.
Identify high-risk individuals and companies before they
harm your business.
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Why choose us?
Identify high-risk individuals
Recognise individuals with a history of fraud to protect your company.
Check against 900+ global lists
Check against 900+ lists including international sanction lists, regulatory bodies lists etc.
Enhance AML compliance
Identify risky individuals & organisations and ensure your company is AML compliant.
Detect fraud
Detect sanctioned individuals and avoid doing business with them to protect against fraud.
How it works
Step 1
Obtain name and date of birth of the user from identity documents.
Step 2
Check the user details against numerous global lists to evaluate risk profiles.
Step 3
Constantly monitor the financial activity of customers/clients to identify suspicious activities.
Monitored lists Features
uqudo’s Monitored lists involve screening solutions including
- International sanction lists (FATF, OFAC, UNSC)
- Regional sanction lists (MENAFATF, EU, GIABA, ESAAMLG)
- Money laundering
- Terrorist financing
- Drug trafficking
- Narcotics trafficking
- Human rights violations
- International treaties violations
More on monitored lists
Monitored or sanction lists are lists comprising of individuals, companies, organisations or governments that are engaged in illegal behaviour and pose a financial risk to international communities. Entities are subject to sanction when they are involved in activities that relate to money laundering, terrorism, illegal trafficking and many more.
These sanctions are imposed by large-scale sanctioning bodies, including international organisations, countries, and regional bodies, some of which are
- UNSC (United Nations Security Council)
- FATF (Financial Action Task Force)
- European Union
- OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Controls) in the US
- FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) in the US
- MENAFATF (Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force)
- GIABA (Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering)
- ESAAMLG (Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group)
Sanction screening and transaction monitoring by financial institutions not only protects them from fraud but is a regulatory requirement in most countries. Using uqudo’s comprehensive sanction monitoring, AML and transaction monitoring services, firms can protect their customers, their company’s reputation and also ensure compliance with global systems.
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FAQ
What does your Screening process involve?
uqudo’s screening process involves running background checks by checking global lists for high-risk entities. In regulated industries, there is a requirement to ensure the individuals you are dealing with aren’t sanctioned to mitigate business risk.
- Anti Money Laundering (AML) is a set of policies, procedures, and technologies that prevents money laundering. Money laundering involves the execution of transactions to eventually convert illegally obtained money into legal money.
- A Politically Exposed Person (PEP) check, also known as PEP sanction screening, involves searching official politically exposed people lists to see if a prospective or current customer is on that list during client identification or transaction screening processes.
- Sanctions checks (sometimes known as watchlist checks) are specialised searches that include several international, government, or regulator sanctions databases that identify individuals prohibited from certain activities or industries.
How do you do AML/PEP’s/Sanctions screening?
Our Screening lists include the following:
- Monitored Lists: 900+ monitored lists that include international sanctions, money laundering and other global lists.
- PEPs (Politically Exposed Person) lists: PEP list check against 1.7+ million high-risk individuals.
- Adverse Media Screening: Screening against 3 billion media articles.
We can screen and monitor in real-time, on an ongoing basis.
What is AML?
AML (Anti-Money Laundering) refers to the rules and regulations that combat money laundering and terrorist financing. AML screening helps detect and identify these suspicious activities.
What are monitored lists?
Monitored lists use data from numerous sources to evaluate a customer’s risk profile. Some examples of monitored lists include
- International sanction lists (FATF, OFAC, UNSC)
- Regional sanction lists (MENAFATF, EU, GIABA, ESAAMLG)
- Money laundering
- Terrorist financing
- Drug trafficking
- Narcotics trafficking
- Human rights violations
- International treaties violations
What is PEP screening?
PEPs (Politically Exposed Persons) are those individuals holding a prominent public position, which increases their susceptibility to fraud. PEP screening involves identifying PEPs and evaluating their risk profiles.
Our PEP screening involves evaluation against 4 PEPs risk levels, which are:
- High-risk PEPs
- Medium-risk PEPs
- Low-risk PEPs
- PEPs by association
Why is watchlist screening important?
A global watchlist screening helps companies identify suspicious money launderers and individuals associated with financial crimes. Along with this, screening helps firms comply with their region’s AML/CFT regulations.
Are uqudo’s Screening lists regularly updated?
Yes, our database undergoes real-time updates, so our Ongoing AML can easily track changes in a customer’s risk profile.