Watchlist

Organizations in various industries are facing pressure from regulators to better identify their customers, associates, and partners as they manage risk and profitability. Middesk fraud and compliance suite provide multi-sourced data and configurable regulatory and risk services to help identify entities associated with money laundering, terrorism financing, white collar crime and other unusual activities in support of your Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) programs.

The Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorism Financing Rules and Global Official List checks assist in identifying the risks associated with individuals due to specific or general involvement with Money Laundering (AML), Terrorism Financing (CTF), Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), terrorists and wanted criminals.

Today, Middesk supports the following sanctions lists. If you would like additional lists added to the product, please reach out to [email protected].

List	Organization
Entity List (EL)	Bureau of Industry and Security
Denied Persons List (DPL)	Bureau of Industry and Security
Military End User (MEU)	Bureau of Industry and Security
Unverified List (UVL)	Bureau of Industry and Security
ITAR Debarred (DTC)	State Department
Nonproliferation Sanctions (ISN)	State Department
Capta List (CAP)	Treasury Department
Foreign Sanctions Evaders (FSE)	Treasury Department
Non-SDN Menu-Based Sanctions (NS-MBS)	Treasury Department
Non-SDN Iranian Sanctions (NS-ISA)	Treasury Department
Specially Designated Nationals (SDN)	Treasury Department
Sectoral Sanctions Identifications List (SSI)	Treasury Department

How Middesk helps with Watchlist screenings

Middesk runs watchlist screenings against all businesses created in our system. Given that watchlists commonly lack unique identifiers, Middesk leverages its identity matching tools to determine if an entity matches any of the records available on all of the mentioned sanctions lists. Middesk will provide you with the status of each individual screening list result and will flag any potential matches for you to review in further detail.

In addition to the granular details about each watchlist, Middesk will also summarize the watchlist search as follows:

status	label	sub_label
*Success*	No Watchlists hits were identified	No Hits
*Failure*	X Watchlists hit(s) have been identified	Hits

For more information about Watchlist, view our reference or reach out to [email protected]