> ## Documentation Index
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# Global Sanctions & PEP Screening

### Coverage

The platform screens against **millions of entities** aggregated from:

* UN Security Council Consolidated List
* US OFAC SDN + Consolidated Lists
* UK HMT Sanctions List
* Interpol Red Notices
* Politically Exposed Persons from 100+ countries
* FATF Blacklist / Greylist entities
* 40+ additional international sources

### How Names Are Matched

The matching engine uses multi-algorithm entity resolution:

| Algorithm                   | What It Does                                    |
| --------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| **Exact Match**             | Case-normalized literal comparison              |
| **Jaro-Winkler**            | Fuzzy string similarity (handles typos)         |
| **Phonetic Match**          | Sound-alike matching (handles transliterations) |
| **Fingerprint Levenshtein** | Edit distance on normalized name tokens         |
| **Country/DOB Penalty**     | Reduces score when demographics don't match     |

**Threshold**: Only matches with ≥ 70% composite confidence are flagged.

### Score Assignment

| Match Type            | Risk Score | Outcome  |
| --------------------- | ---------- | -------- |
| Sanctions list match  | **95**     | BLOCK    |
| PEP match             | **70**     | ESCALATE |
| Other watchlist match | **60**     | REVIEW   |
| No match              | **0**      | APPROVE  |

Both **sender** and **receiver** names are screened in parallel. PEP detection from this stage automatically feeds into CBN-004 PEP Screening.

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