Sanctions Screening & AML Compliance Blog
Guides, tutorials, and best practices for integrating sanctions screening into your fintech application.
What is OFAC Sanctions Screening and Why Your Fintech Needs It
OFAC sanctions screening is the process of checking customers against the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list. Learn why every fintech, crypto exchange, and payment processor needs automated OFAC screening.
Read moreHow to Build an AML Compliance Pipeline with a Sanctions Screening API
A developer's guide to integrating real-time sanctions screening into your KYC onboarding flow. Step-by-step with code examples in Node.js, Python, and curl.
Read moreOFAC vs UN vs EU Sanctions Lists: What's the Difference?
A breakdown of the major international sanctions lists, what each one covers, how they overlap, and which lists you need to screen against based on where you operate.
Read moreFuzzy Matching for Sanctions Screening: Why Exact Match Isn't Enough
Names are transliterated, misspelled, and abbreviated. Learn how fuzzy matching with Levenshtein distance and phonetic algorithms like Soundex catch sanctions matches that exact matching misses.
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