Overview

Sanctions Shield is a global sanctions screening SaaS and data asset that aggregates and maintains updated sanctions lists and related watchlists to support AML name screening, risk-based screening, and due-diligence workflows. It is positioned to help compliance teams detect sanctioned parties, reduce false positives through curated data, and plug into screening and transaction-monitoring pipelines to reduce regulatory and financial exposure.

Features and Capabilities

• Data Coverage and Updates: Sanctions Shield provides consolidated global sanctions and watchlist datasets, refreshed regularly to reflect regulatory updates and government list changes.
• Screening Integration: Designed to integrate with name-screening and AML workflows so teams can run batch or real-time checks against the curated sanctions data.
• Risk Prioritization & Matching: Offers fuzzy-matching and risk scoring to prioritise hits and reduce manual review workload while improving detection of sanctioned entities.
• Case Management Support: Enables audit trails and evidence capture for investigations and regulatory reporting so compliance teams can document screening decisions.
• Customisation & Filtering: Allows configuration of watchlist subsets, jurisdictions, and thresholds to suit institutional risk appetites and operational needs.
• Regulatory Intelligence & Alerts: Bundles or ties into sanctions monitoring feeds and insights so teams stay aware of changes that affect screening rules.
• API & Data Asset Delivery: Exposes the sanctions data as a consumable data asset or API enabling direct ingestion into third-party AML, KYC and transaction monitoring systems.