Sanctions Screening
Screen against sanctions lists with speed and confidence.
Continuous sanctions and PEP screening for onboarding, ongoing monitoring, and financial crime investigations across regulated fintech workflows.
Michael Chen
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THE PROBLEM
Sanctions exposure grows when screening is delayed or isolated.
Onboarding friction
Clunky verification processes lead to massive drop-off rates, costing you genuine users and revenue.
Blind spots
Basic ID checks fail to capture vital context—like whether the individual is actively on a sanctions list today.
Disconnected data
When identity data lives in one platform and transactions in another, risk analysts are forced to make decisions partially blind.
Synthetic fraud
Fraudsters easily bypass weak infrastructure using stolen, tampered, or purely synthetic documents.
Why it matters
Sanctions screening has to stay continuous, not one-off.
Watchlists change, customer risk changes, and regulators expect timely screening. Continuous sanctions monitoring helps teams respond faster to changing geopolitical and financial crime risk.
The remllo approach
Screening built into the wider risk workflow.
- Automated VerificationEffortlessly extract and verify data from government IDs, passports, and business registration documents.
- Liveness & BiometricsStop impersonators and synthetic bots with AI-driven facial matching and advanced liveness checks.
- Sanctions & PEP ScreeningImmediately screen onboarding users against global Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) and targeted sanctions databases.
- Ecosystem IntegrationShare verified identity signals natively across the Remllo ecosystem to power identity-aware transaction monitoring.
CAPABILITIES
Sanctions controls built for modern compliance teams.
KYC Verification
Instant extraction and automated verification of national IDs, BVNs, and passports.
KYB Verification
Rapidly verify business entities, confirm ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs), and check corporate registries.
Identity Risk Scoring
Generate a unified confidence score assessing the overall risk of a newly onboarded profile.
Device & Context
Capture IP metadata, device fingerprints, and geolocation data during onboarding to preempt fraud.
From onboarding check to continuous screening.
1. Capture
The user provides their ID and takes a quick, guided selfie during your standard onboarding flow.
2. Extract
Remllo’s AI extracts optical characters from the document seamlessly via API.
3. Verify
Document authenticity, biometric facial matching, and liveness are scored instantly.
4. Screen
The verified identity is quietly checked against global sanctions and PEP databases in the background.
5. Trust
The user is approved seamlessly, and their identity profile is securely synced to your risk dashboard.
Used by institutions that need watchlist visibility.
For fintechs, banks, lending platforms, and payment businesses that need sanctions, PEP, and identity screening across customer lifecycles.
Fintechs & Neobanks
Automate Tier 1/2/3 customer onboarding while maintaining absolute regulatory compliance.
Digital Lenders
Ensure borrowers are exactly who they claim to be to drastically reduce first-party loan fraud.
B2B Platforms
Verify corporate clients (KYB) rapidly before unlocking massive transaction limits.
Crypto Platforms
Maintain strict AML compliance by ensuring absolute identity verification on all on-ramps.
THE ECOSYSTEM
Powered by the Remllo ecosystem.
This solution relies entirely on Remllo Identity to secure your front door, and feeds critical verified context directly to Remllo WatchTower for lifecycle monitoring.
Why Remllo works for sanctions screening.
- We never silo data: unified KYC flows directly into AML and Fraud alerting
- Optimized for Africa with deep support for regional ID registries (e.g. BVN, NIN)
- Continuous screening ensures users are re-checked when new sanctions go live
- Developer-obsessed APIs that are actually enjoyable to integrate
Frequently Asked Questions
Sanctions screening software checks customers, businesses, and counterparties against watchlists, PEP databases, and other restricted-party sources to help prevent prohibited relationships or payments.
Yes. Remllo supports continuous screening so teams can be alerted when a previously approved customer or business becomes newly sanctioned or politically exposed.
Yes. Remllo connects sanctions screening with identity, transaction monitoring, and investigation workflows so analysts can review sanctions context inside the same system.
Need continuous sanctions screening?
Use Remllo to connect watchlist screening to onboarding, AML operations, and transaction investigations.