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Run a Sanctions and adverse media screening check

The Sanctions and adverse media screening check for companies is used to search for potential politically exposed persons (PEPs), sanctions, and adverse media matches using your data provider.

Prerequisites

Your smart policy has been configured to include the Assess sanctions and adverse media task with the Sanctions and adverse media screening check for company profiles.

Run the check

To run the Sanctions and adverse media screening check:

  1. Go to a profile's Assess sanctions and adverse media task.

    assess sanctions and adverse media task

    You may already see results if you've configured your check to run automatically. The most recent check is listed with its runtime displayed in the check's banner. If recent results are available, you can skip directly to resolving your matches.

  2. Select Sanctions and adverse media to run the check and return results from your data provider if the check hasn't already run automatically.

Read the check results

The check returns potential matches found by your data provider for the profile. These are displayed in the Potential matches list.

sanctions and adverse media screening check results

To see more information about a potential match, select the match name.

The Provider PDF option is displayed if your data provider offers a PDF report for the match. You can view the report by selecting Provider PDF. Download the report using the Download button at the beginning of the preview or by right-clicking the preview and selecting Save as.

company screening provider PDF page

Confirm or ignore matches

To confirm or ignore the match, select Unresolved. Select your decision, then choose Save decision.

Optionally, you can add a comment to explain to your colleagues why you've made the decision.

confirm match screening check

Confirmed matches are displayed on the Matches list, which is created when you confirm the first match.

Ignored matches, also known as false positives, are displayed on the Ignored matches list.

confirm matches sanctions and adverse media screening check

To return a confirmed or ignored match to the Potential matches list, select the match name and choose Review decision.

You may find that matches are displayed on the Ignored matches list as soon as they're returned. This happens when your company is using Maxsight’s false positive reduction service. You can choose to confirm any match on this list. To mark all potential matches as false positives, check the checkbox at the top of the Potential matches list, then select Ignore.

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