PEP & Watchlist Screening

Smart, Efficient Screening with Comprehensive OFAC, EU, UN and PEPs Data

Sanctions compliance often involves multiple departments and business applications and disparate customer and vendor databases. To avoid violations and costly fines and penalties, you need to have a comprehensive view of compliance across your enterprise. Melissa Identity Verification provides PEP (Politically Exposed Person) and watchlist tools to consolidate screening and easily integrate with your existing technology infrastructure.

Faster customer onboarding with real-time screening
Better remediation by eliminating unnecessary “false positives”
Easy compliance with regional Sanctions, AML/CTF regulations including the EU’s Fourth Money Laundering Directive (4AMLD), U.S. Bank Secrecy Act, Patriot Act and other international legislation
Search Negative News/Adverse Media articles to identify individuals or businesses that may have unfavorable or negative exposure in a variety of news sources

How Watchlist Screening Works

1. Choose which types of risks you want to screen for

Choose from our proprietary Personator AML Data Feed which includes comprehensive sanctions lists (OFAC, UK, UN, EU) PEP and other U.S. government and international restricted party watch lists.

2. Run your search

You can easily tailor Personator to your risk-based approach. Personator leverages intelligent fuzzy matching to handle transliteration, synonyms, aliases and misspellings , and advanced name matching to reduce false positives.

3. Review matches and manage cases

Seamlessly sync Personator with your internal systems to review potential matches quickly and easily.