Stay Ahead of Global Regulatory Risk in Real Time

Watchlists & Sanctions Screening & Monitoring

 

Vital4’s Watchlists & Sanctions solution offers real-time screening against thousands of global enforcement and regulatory lists — ensuring your business remains compliant, protected, and audit-ready in an increasingly volatile sanctions environment. Designed for precision, speed, and scale, this solution empowers your risk and compliance teams to detect high-risk individuals and entities across jurisdictions with confidence.

Comprehensive Coverage, Directly from the Source

Our sanctions data is updated in real-time directly from the source. Vital4 does not rely on third-party aggregators, which means we maintain full control over the accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of the content. This ensures you’re always operating with the most current and trustworthy data available.

With over 6,000 global sources, you’ll have complete coverage no matter where your customers or vendors operate.

  • OFAC (U.S. Treasury)
  • EU and UK sanctions lists
  • United Nations
  • HMT (UK)
  • DFAT (Australia)
  • SECO (Switzerland)
  • Domestic & international law enforcement
  • Regulatory enforcement bodies
  • Interpol and local watchlists

Stay Ahead with Real-Time and Reliable Sanctions Data

Gain the advantage of sanctions and watchlist data updated within seconds of change—directly from many of the world’s most critical regulatory sources. Unlike providers that rely on third-party aggregators, Vital4 ingests updates the moment they are published, ensuring that additions or removals to lists like OFAC, the UN Consolidated List, His Majesty’s Treasury, the EU, and others are captured and made available without delay.

While some sources do not publish updates in true “real time” (defined today as API-driven notifications of every record change), our proprietary ingestion technology ensures that as soon as an update is available, it is processed and delivered to you faster than any competitor.

With AI-driven precision, our process minimizes lag and maximizes accuracy—empowering your compliance team to detect and respond to risk with unmatched speed and confidence.

With Vital4, you’re not just current—you’re first.

A Smarter Global Watchlist Search

AI-Enhanced Sanctions Screening

Our AI-powered screening engine uses AI-driven name-matching logic that goes beyond fuzzy name matching, name normalization, and transliteration, and captures unstructured data sources to surface matches competitors won’t, with greater accuracy, catching risk signals that legacy systems may miss. This helps find hits others won’t, reducing false positives, streamlining investigations, and accelerating your onboarding and due diligence workflows.

 

Precision and Transparency

Compliance professionals know that detecting risk is only half the battle — you also need to document and defend your decisions. Vital4’s screening engine is built around explainability and auditability. Every alert is fully transparent and backed by clear source references.

Our system has been benchmarked to demonstrate:

  • Higher recall rates (fewer misses)
  • Improved precision (fewer false positives)
  • Traceable and auditable outputs for regulatory confidence

Who Benefits from Vital4 Watchlists & Sanctions?

More power than a dedicated team of analysts – all within the convenience of a cloud-based interface. Unlike legacy providers, we use machine learning, AI-driven name-matching technology, and flexible relevancy scores to deliver the most current data without human error. This solution supports a wide range of use cases:

  • Ensure full sanctions compliance at onboarding and throughout the customer lifecycle
  • Implement Perpetual KYC monitoring for real-time alerts and reduced exposure
  • Enhance SAR narratives and documentation with structured data from Vital4

  • Embed into orchestration layers for seamless sanctions and PEP screening
  • Reduce handoffs between platforms by combining global lists with AI filtering
  • Provide partners and clients with a white-labeled, audit-ready solution

  • Screen vendors and suppliers to avoid secondary sanctions violations
  • Monitor third-party networks for exposure to embargoed regions or sanctioned actors
  • Ensure compliance with export controls and international trade regulations

  • Combine with UBO and Secretary of State (SOS) data for full business risk profiles
  • Detect connections to sanctioned affiliates, parent companies, or shell entities
  • Power risk scoring and segmentation for faster decision-making

Flexible Screening Options

Screening workflows can be configured to meet your specific compliance demands, risk tolerances, and use case:

  • Initial Onboarding Screening
  • Ongoing Monitoring
  • Batch Screening for Large Volumes
  • API-Based Screening in Real-Time
  • UI Access for Compliance Teams and Analysts

You can tailor results by region, entity type, risk score, and match confidence—giving you full control and visibility.

Why It Matters

With thousands of active sanctions against Russia alone, and increasing activity globally, the sanctions landscape is shifting by the hour. Financial institutions and global companies must stay agile — while maintaining accuracy, audit trails, and speed.

Regulators have made it clear: sanctions violations carry significant penalties, even if unintentional. Recent enforcement actions demonstrate that regulators expect organizations to have dynamic, proactive, and transparent compliance programs.

Vital4 helps ensure you meet these expectations, reduce enforcement risk, and streamline compliance without sacrificing scale or speed.

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