Sanctions SettingsCopy Anchor Link

Sanctions settings control how Strise screens entities against sanctions lists, including which entities are screened, which sources are used, and how matches are scored and evaluated.

Sanctions ScreeningCopy Anchor Link

Entity ScopeCopy Anchor Link

Sanctions screening is performed on entities in your portfolio. The scope of screening depends on the entity type and its relationships:

Owners are screened when their stake, held directly or through other companies, meets your shareholder threshold. Include companies on the ownership path decides what happens to a company that sits between your company and such an owner but holds less than the threshold itself. When it is on, which is the default for sanctions, that company is screened too. When it is off, only owners that meet the threshold and registered beneficial owners are screened.

A subsidiary is screened the same way, against your subsidiary threshold: when a source states a share as a range, Strise compares the threshold against the top of that range, and a subsidiary with no reported share is treated as fully owned and always included.

For private persons, Connected companies with direct ownerships follows the same rule against your direct ownership threshold: a company the person owns directly, through the business persons connected to them, is included when the top of its stated share meets the threshold, and a company with no reported share is treated as fully owned and always included.

Risk CategoriesCopy Anchor Link

Sanctions hits are classified into risk categories:

Sanctions SourcesCopy Anchor Link

Strise aggregates sanctions and watchlist data from several regulatory bodies and delivers them as the following source groups. Each group can be enabled or disabled independently per team:

Dow Jones (expanded coverage)Copy Anchor Link

Enabling Dow Jones switches sanctions screening to Dow Jones Risk & Compliance in place of the built-in EU / OFAC / UK / UN / SECO sources. It screens against 1,359 sanctions and watchlists globally -- covering the same major regimes (EU, OFAC, UN, UK, ...) plus wider international coverage such as Canadian DFATD and Japanese MOF lists. Custom lists continue to screen independently.

Within Dow Jones, lists are grouped by issuing authority. Lists that don't map to a named group -- including the UK lists (FCDO / OFSI Sanctions List, HM Treasury) -- appear under Uncategorised in Settings → Sanctions and are screened by default.

Looking for a specific list -- e.g. the UK Sanctions List? On Dow Jones it's included as FCDO (UK) Sanctions List – Asset Freeze, listed under Uncategorised. The complete, always-current set of lists is viewable in-app under Settings → Sanctions.

Vessels and aircraftCopy Anchor Link

Some lists name sanctioned vessels and aircraft. They have no entity of their own in Strise, so with Include vessels and aircraft turned on, companies are also screened against those names. A company that owns or manages a vessel is often named after it. The setting is off by default, because vessel and aircraft names are short and often ordinary words that also match unrelated companies. Dow Jones, OFAC, UK and SECO list vessels and aircraft as entries of their own. EU and UN list only the companies that own them, which are screened like any other company.

MatchingCopy Anchor Link

Minimum Fuzzy Name MatchCopy Anchor Link

The fuzzy name match threshold controls how similar an entity's name must be to a sanctions list entry to be considered a potential match:

• Higher values (e.g., 99--100%) produce fewer matches but may miss legitimate hits where names are slightly different.
• Lower values (e.g., 90--95%) produce more matches, including more false positives, but are less likely to miss true matches.

ScoringCopy Anchor Link

Sanctions match scoring uses a weighted system to calculate an overall match score based on multiple data fields.

Data Field WeightingCopy Anchor Link

The overall match score is calculated as a weighted combination of individual field scores.

Suggested True Match ThresholdCopy Anchor Link

Matches scoring above this threshold are flagged as suggested true matches in the interface, indicating a high confidence that the match is genuine. Matches below the threshold are still shown but require more careful manual review.

How Changes Affect MonitoringCopy Anchor Link

When you modify sanctions settings:

• Adding sanctions sources: Entities will be re-screened against the new sources during the next monitoring cycle. New matches may generate alerts.
• Removing sanctions sources: Existing matches from the removed sources will be resolved. This may generate resolution alerts.
• Changing the fuzzy match threshold: A lower threshold may surface new matches that were previously below the cutoff. A higher threshold may resolve existing marginal matches.
• Changing scoring weights: The match scores for existing hits will be recalculated, which may move matches above or below the suggested true match threshold.

Default Settings SummaryCopy Anchor Link

Related PagesCopy Anchor Link

• PEP and Sanctions Screening (v.3) — how the screening pipeline preprocesses, searches, filters and scores a name
• Data Sources — per-country coverage, including which sanctions lists back each source group
• PEP Settings — the equivalent configuration for PEP and RCA screening
• Monitoring Alerts Settings — which sanctions changes generate alerts, and how they are delivered