Sanctions and PEPs Testing

How we help you tackle your sanctions and PEPs screening risks

Bespoke to your business challenges: Tailored to your risk landscape: We begin with a collaborative scoping session to map your lines of business, systems, customer base and geographic exposure, ensuring every test reflects the real-world threats your firm faces
Access to industry leading expertise: We partner with domain experts specifically to create bespoke testing scenarios for your business needs
Comprehensive testing of your controls: We safely inject these cases across your full screening workflow and measure missed hits, false positives and data‑quality breaks
Understand and improve your defences: Findings are prioritised, root‑caused and paired with clear remediation steps; we re‑test so you can evidence improvement to regulators and the board.

Our expert team strengthens your screening by testing for:

Typographical errors

We seed common mis-keyed characters and transposed letters into names, addresses and dates of birth to see whether your fuzzy-matching tolerances are fit-for-purpose.
Name variations

We introduce cultural diminutives, patronymics and reversed name orderings to verify that your engine handles real-world naming conventions.
Deliberate data manipulations

We alter ancillary fields to mislead basic rule sets – for instance pairing a sanctioned city with an unsanctioned country.
Patterns and corruptions on inbound data feeds

We replay defects we have spotted in your historic source files (hidden control characters, multi-line cells, unexpected NULLs) to ensure nothing slips past pre-processing.
Script & transliteration drift

We swap between Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic and Greek scripts (plus homoglyphs) to test whether your solution normalises Unicode properly.
Alias & nickname mapping

We inject widely-used aliases, trading-as names and ship IMO re-registrations to confirm these links are maintained after your last list refresh.
Partial or truncated data

We shorten names, clip dates and drop middle initials to mimic tight character limits in upstream systems.
Time-lag & list-update testing

We back-date newly designated entities and re-run the batch to see whether your overnight refresh truly picks them up.

Discovery call: Tell us about your business so we can carefully assess your sanction and PEP testing data objectives
Proposal: We will provide you with a proposal with an appropriate testing programme bespoke to your business aims
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