Screen against every list. Match with confidence. Scale without compromise.

Watchlist screening checks customers, counterparties and other entities against sanctions lists, PEP databases and other watchlists to identify individuals or organisations subject to restrictions or enhanced due diligence. It is a regulatory requirement across all major jurisdictions worldwide.

Regulators expect you to screen customers, counterparties and connected entities against sanctions lists, PEP databases and other watchlists. The challenge is doing it accurately across many names, languages and jurisdictions, with constantly evolving risk data.

With Clear Data, you get entity resolution, tunable matching and configurable list selection across 500+ data sources. Fewer false positives, more genuine risks found, and updates processed in hours, not days.

Capabilities

Precision screening across every risk dimension.

Sanctions screening

Select the specific sanctions lists you need, from EU, OFAC, UK and others. Minimise false positives while rigorously screening against all relevant names. Updates processed in hours, not days.

PEP screening

Screen against politically exposed persons and their relatives and close associates. Configure which role categories to screen and when to stop screening a PEP after they leave their politically exposed role. 

Address screening

Return results based on address matching alone, regardless of name or entity type. Increasingly important for trade compliance and connected-party risk. 

Location screening

Confirm whether any entity has links to a listed location by name, nationality, incorporation or address. Catches the risks that name-only screening misses. 

Configurable re-alerting

Control when data should re-alert based on the nature of the change since last review. Define what counts as a material change by risk appetite and name segment, so only material changes trigger work. 

Efficient at scale

Your risk data and customer names are resolved and indexed, so name screening and list-change screening stay efficient at scale, even across large customer books.

Outcomes

What changes when matching actually works.

In live deployments across Central and Eastern Europe, Clear Data has cut false positives sharply while surfacing more genuine sanctions and PEP risk, with matching tuned for regional and Romanian name patterns.

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fewer false positives

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faster time to decision

Common questions about watchlist screening.

Watchlist screening checks customers, counterparties and other entities against sanctions lists, PEP databases and other regulatory watchlists to identify individuals or organisations subject to restrictions or enhanced due diligence. It is a regulatory requirement across all major jurisdictions, across all major jurisdictions.

Sanctions screening checks entities against lists of individuals, organisations and countries subject to trade or financial restrictions imposed by bodies such as OFAC, the EU or HM Treasury. PEP screening identifies politically exposed persons, individuals in prominent public roles who may present elevated corruption or bribery risk. Both are required under AML regulations but serve different risk purposes.

Clear Data resolves identity across scripts and languages, tuned for Romanian and Central and Eastern European name patterns. It handles transliterations, aliases, diminutives and organisational name parts that global vendors often miss.

When a sanctions list is updated, Clear Data's continuous monitoring triggers an incremental review of affected entities. Only material changes generate new alerts, resolved matches are not re-screened, reducing noise and keeping analysts focused on genuinely new risk.

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