Check customers against 9 official sanctions lists, keep them monitored as the lists change, and hand examiners a complete audit trail. Published pricing, free plan, no sales call.
In short
AML screening is the part of an anti-money-laundering program that checks who you are dealing with: customer names are compared against sanctions lists, politically exposed person registers, and other watchlists at onboarding and again as those lists change. It answers a narrow question with heavy consequences. A sanctions match is a legal prohibition, while a PEP match means the customer needs enhanced due diligence before you proceed. SanctScan covers the sanctions layer of AML screening: one search checks nine official lists, OFAC SDN, US Consolidated, EU, UK OFSI, UN, Australia DFAT, Swiss SECO, Canada GAC, and Japan MOF, with fuzzy matching for aliases and transliterations and a per-decision audit log. Monitored entities are rescreened on every list update, daily on Solo and every 15 minutes on Growth. Dedicated PEP screening is on the roadmap but not live yet; until it ships, pair SanctScan with a separate PEP data provider.
An anti-money-laundering program has several moving parts. Customer due diligence collects and verifies identity. Transaction monitoring watches behavior after the account opens. Suspicious activity reporting closes the loop with the regulator. AML screening sits between the first two: once you know who a customer is, screening checks that name against sanctions lists and PEP registers to establish whether you may deal with them at all, and how carefully.
The two checks carry different weight. A sanctions match is binary and binding: the transaction stops, and in most jurisdictions the assets involved are frozen and reported. A PEP match is a risk signal, not a prohibition; it obliges you to establish source of funds, obtain senior sign-off, and review the relationship more often. Conflating the two is a common and expensive mistake, in both directions. Declining every PEP loses legitimate business, and treating a sanctions hit as a judgment call invites an enforcement action.
The part that gets underestimated is repetition. Sanctions lists change multiple times a week and PEP status changes with every election and appointment, so screening is not an onboarding event but a standing obligation. A customer who cleared in January can be designated in March, and the regulator's question will be how long it took you to notice. This is why screening and monitoring belong together: the initial check establishes the baseline, and automatic rescreening on every list update catches the changes.
SanctScan handles the sanctions side of this layer. One search covers nine official sanctions lists with fuzzy matching and visible confidence scores, and continuous monitoring rescreens enrolled entities whenever a list updates. Dedicated PEP screening is on the roadmap but not live yet. For the sanctions side in depth, see the sanctions screening pillar; for what PEP checks involve, see the PEP screening.
The category covers three checks. SanctScan does one of them today and is upfront about the other two.
Names checked against nine official sanctions lists in one pass: OFAC SDN, US Consolidated, EU, UK OFSI, UN, Australia DFAT, Swiss SECO, Canada GAC, and Japan MOF. A confirmed match is a legal prohibition.
Politically exposed person checks against public-function registers. A match triggers enhanced due diligence, not an automatic decline. On SanctScan's roadmap, not a live feature yet; see the PEP screening guide for how the check works.
News-based risk checks are part of the broad AML screening category, but SanctScan does not offer them. If your program requires media checks, pair SanctScan with a dedicated adverse media tool.
Built for compliance teams that need dependable screening without an enterprise procurement cycle.
A single query returns risk-scored sanctions results across nine official lists, so analysts resolve one result set instead of querying each authority separately.
Enroll customers once and SanctScan rescreens them whenever a list updates: daily on Solo, hourly on Starter, every 15 minutes on Growth. Alerts arrive by email or webhook the moment a status changes.
Transliterations, aliases, and misspellings are caught by fuzzy matching, and every potential hit carries a confidence score you can see, so triage is by risk instead of gut feel.
Every screening, decision, and cleared match is logged with who, when, and why. When an examiner asks how a match was resolved, the answer is a lookup, not an email archaeology project.
Screen from your own onboarding flow with a JSON API, and receive webhook alerts when a monitored entity changes. API access is included from the Starter plan.
Free tier with 25 screenings a month, Solo at $19, Starter at $39, Growth at $149. No sales call required to learn any of these numbers or to start screening today.
Screening is the check; monitoring is the same check repeated automatically every time a list changes. You need both.
Enter a name or upload a CSV. One search checks all nine sanctions lists, with results and confidence scores back in seconds.
Clear false positives or escalate true hits. Each decision is captured in the audit log automatically, so your case file builds itself as the team works.
Add customers to monitoring and stop rescreening by hand. SanctScan rechecks them on every list update and alerts you only when something actually changes.
Read why onboarding-only screening fails in practice: continuous sanctions monitoring.
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AML screening is the part of an anti-money-laundering program that checks who you are dealing with. Customer and counterparty names are compared against sanctions lists, politically exposed person registers, and other watchlists, first at onboarding and then again whenever those lists change. It sits between customer due diligence, which collects and verifies identity information, and transaction monitoring, which watches behavior after the relationship starts. The consequences of a hit differ by list type: a sanctions match is a legal prohibition and the transaction must stop, while a PEP match is a risk classification that requires enhanced due diligence before you proceed. Regulators in most jurisdictions expect both checks, expect them repeated as lists update, and expect a documented record of how each potential match was resolved and by whom. The obligation applies to banks, fintechs, money service businesses, and most other regulated firms.
KYC, or know your customer, is the identity layer: collecting a customer's name, date of birth, address, and ownership structure, and verifying that the person or company is who they claim to be. AML screening is the risk layer that runs on top of it. Once you know who the customer is, screening checks that name against sanctions lists and PEP registers to find out whether you are allowed to deal with them and how much diligence the relationship requires. The two are often bundled in vendor marketing, which causes confusion. A KYC tool that verifies a passport does not tell you the passport holder was added to the OFAC SDN list last week. You need both layers, and they can come from different tools connected by an API. SanctScan covers the sanctions screening layer and plugs into any KYC stack through its REST API.
AML sanctions screening is the check against government sanctions lists inside an AML program. It compares customer and counterparty names against lists such as the OFAC SDN list, the EU consolidated list, the UK OFSI list, and the UN Security Council list, using fuzzy matching to catch aliases, transliterations, and spelling variations that exact search misses. A confirmed match is not a judgment call: the transaction is prohibited, and in most jurisdictions the assets involved must be frozen and reported to the authority. Sanctions compliance also operates under strict liability in many regimes, so a business can be penalized without knowing the party was designated. SanctScan runs this check across nine official lists in one pass, scores each potential match by confidence, and records who cleared or escalated it. Results return in seconds through the web app, bulk CSV upload, or the API.
AML PEP screening checks whether a customer or beneficial owner is a politically exposed person: someone who holds or has held a prominent public function, such as a senior politician, judge, military officer, or executive of a state-owned enterprise, along with their close family and known associates. Unlike a sanctions hit, a PEP match does not prohibit the relationship. It raises the risk rating and triggers enhanced due diligence, which usually means establishing source of funds, getting senior approval, and reviewing the account more often. FATF recommendations and most national AML rules require PEP checks at onboarding and on an ongoing basis, since people gain and lose public functions constantly. SanctScan does not offer PEP screening yet; it is on the roadmap. Until it ships, pair SanctScan's sanctions screening with a dedicated PEP data provider if your regulator requires the check.
In the broad industry definition, yes: full-scope AML screening covers sanctions lists, PEP registers, and adverse media, meaning news coverage that links a person or company to financial crime. In practice the three checks have very different reliability. Sanctions and PEP data come from official, published sources, while adverse media matching is noisier and produces far more false positives per true hit. SanctScan covers the sanctions check today; PEP screening is on the roadmap, and adverse media is not offered. If your regulator or risk appetite requires those checks, you will need a separate tool for that layer. We would rather state that plainly than sell a checkbox. What we do cover, we cover properly: nine official sanctions lists, updated daily from the primary sources, with every screening decision logged. That choice also keeps false-positive volume manageable for a small team.
Screening once at onboarding is the minimum, and on its own it is not enough. Sanctions lists change multiple times a week, and PEP status changes with every election, appointment, and resignation, so a customer who was clean in January can be designated in March with no signal to you unless you rescreen. Regulators increasingly expect ongoing screening rather than periodic batch reviews, and examiners ask to see the gap between a list update and your rescreening of affected customers. The practical answer is continuous monitoring: enroll customers once, and let the software rescreen them automatically whenever a list is updated. SanctScan does this daily on the Solo plan, hourly on Starter, and every 15 minutes on Growth, with an email or webhook alert the moment a monitored entity's status changes. The audit log records every rescreening automatically, so the evidence of ongoing compliance builds itself.
Enterprise AML screening platforms are usually priced by sales quote, on annual contracts, with implementation projects that run weeks to months, and the number rarely appears on the vendor's website. SanctScan publishes its prices. The free tier includes 25 screenings per month with no credit card, enough to run a real evaluation or cover a very small client base. Solo is $19 per month with 250 screenings and daily monitoring of 25 entities. Starter is $39 per month with 1,500 screenings, hourly monitoring of 150 entities, API access, and webhooks. Growth is $149 per month with unlimited screenings and 15-minute monitoring of 1,000 entities. Every plan screens against all nine sanctions lists. If a vendor will not tell you the price before a demo, that tells you something too. Enterprise plans with SSO and a custom SLA are available for larger teams.
25 free screenings per month against all nine sanctions lists. No credit card, no sales call. Upgrade to Solo ($19/month) when you want continuous monitoring.
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