PEP and Sanctions Lists
The PEP - or Politically Exposed Persons list relies on name-matching across multiple global sources, as there is no single, centralised list.
It doesn't check against addresses or countries, otherwise, as soon as someone moves address they might not be found on the list. PEP searches may come up with false positives because if there is a Fred Smith on the PEP list and you are identity checking a Fred Smith then it will report the matches but you then need to use that information (such as the country it relates to) along with talking to your client to identify whether they are the same Fred Smith
The sanctions checks will check the UK Sanctions List, EU and OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control - a US Treasury Department agency), Australian, Canadian, French, and US lists and several international lists including:
Australian National Security Terrorism List
DFAT (dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade) Australia Consolidated Sanctions List
EU External Action Service - Consolidated list of Sanctions
United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network 311 Special Measures
HM Treasury Ukraine Sanctions
OFAC Consolidated List
OFAC SDN List (Specially Designated National - an individual, company or group targeted and blocked by OFAC)
Public Safety Canada Listed Entities
United States Department of State Counter Terrorism Rewards Program Persons
DFATD Canada Special Economic Measures Act Designations
France Tresor Direction Generale Liste Unique de Gels (French Treasury Directorate General Single Asset Freezing List)
United Nations Consolidated
United States Bureau of Industry and Security The Denied Persons List
United States Department of State Terror Exclusion List
Sanction Related Entities
Canadian Freezing Assets of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act
United States Bureau of Industry and Security Entity List
United States Bureau of Industry and Security Unverified List
United States Department of State Nonproliferation Sanctions List
Canada Sanctions Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act
European Council Restrictive Measures on Russian entities destabilising the situation in Ukraine
United Nations Security Council List of Designated Vessels
Australia Autonomous Sanctions for Russia Crimea and Sevastopol
European Council List of Designated Vessels
United Kingdom Home Office List of Proscribed Terrorist Organisations
United States Coast Guard Prohibited Vessels (Suspended)
Australia Autonomous Sanctions North Korea Designated Vessels
Arab states Joint Sanctions List 2017 Qatar Diplomatic Crisis organisations (Suspended)
Canada Regulations Implementing the United Nations Resolutions on the Suppression of Terrorism
United Kingdom Sanctions Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018
OFAC Non-SDN Communist Chinese Military Companies List (Suspended)
United States Bureau of Industry and Security Military End User List
United States Department of State Counter Terrorism Rewards Program Organisations
United States Bureau of Industry and Security List of Commercial and Private Aircraft in potential violation of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR)
European Council Restrictive Measures in View of the Situation in Belarus
We carry out a PEP and Sanctions check when you carry out an identity check with us but we can also monitor this system constantly to identify if a person flags up on a list after you have carried out the initial check.