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Arakan Verify · Sanctions and PEP screening

Screen a name, review the matches, keep the record.

Screen people and companies against official sanctions, PEP, debarment and warning lists, keep watchlists that are re-screened on a schedule, and connect screening to your own systems by API.

For: Compliance teams, MLROs and firms screening clients

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497official sanctions, PEP and warning lists, from OpenSanctions

What Verify does

Sanctions and PEP screening

  • Official lists

    Sanctions, politically exposed persons, debarment and exclusion lists, and wanted and regulatory warning lists, including the UN and the UAE Local Terrorist List.

  • Each match reviewed

    Every possible match shows the list, the category and why it resembles the name, so a reviewer can clear it or escalate it.

  • Every decision on record

    Who screened whom, when, against which lists, and what was decided.

  • Watchlists

    Keep clients on a list that is re-screened daily, weekly or monthly. You see what changed, hit by hit.

  • Certificates

    A PDF record of a screening, ready for the client file.

  • By API

    Connect screening to your own systems with an API key.

How it works

  1. 1

    Enter a name

    A person or a company, with a date of birth or country to narrow it.

  2. 2

    Review the matches

    Clear or escalate each one, with a reason.

  3. 3

    Keep watching

    Add the name to a watchlist to re-screen it on a schedule.

Learn the rules first

What the law asks, before the software.

Explainer series narrated over diagrams, with the article behind every claim. No product on screen. Each video is about two minutes and starts the next.

Sanctions screening, explained

For: Compliance officers, MLROs and owners at UAE firms that must screen customers and transactions against the UN and UAE terrorist lists: financial institutions, accountants, auditors, corporate service providers, real estate brokers, gold dealers and virtual asset firms.

6 videos · about 11 min in all

Every series and demo

Questions

Where do the lists come from?

From OpenSanctions, which collects official sanctions, PEP, debarment and warning lists from governments and international bodies. Organisations with their own ComplyAdvantage account can connect it instead.

Does Verify check news or adverse media?

No. Verify uses official watchlist data only, and every result says so. Adverse media is available only through a connected ComplyAdvantage account.

What if screening can't run?

The result says it didn't run. It is never shown as clear, and it isn't charged.

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Screening, rules and records. The apps share your companies, documents and rules, so nothing is entered twice.

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