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Sanctions, adverse media and KYC screening, explained
Practical explainers for compliance teams: what the rules say, where screening goes wrong, and how AdverseMe handles it.
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Adverse-media false positives: why they happen and how to cut them
Common names, transliteration, syndicated stories and stale allegations produce most adverse-media false positives. Here is where they come from, why simple filters make them worse, and how AdverseMe handles each cause.
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Why AdverseMe scores every finding with four judges at temperature zero
One model scoring adverse media is an opinion. Four models from four families, run blind at temperature zero with fixed seeds, with the median taken and dissent counted, is a reproducible measurement. Here is why we built it that way.
- ai-council
- explainability
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Screening the five GCC and MENA national terror lists most tools skip
The UAE, Lebanon, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria each publish a national designation list that is not mirrored on OFAC, the EU or the UN feeds. Here is what they are, why screening tools miss them and how AdverseMe parses them daily.
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- mena
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UAE targeted financial sanctions: what Cabinet Decision 74 of 2020 asks of you
A plain-language walk through the UAE's targeted financial sanctions regime for financial institutions and DNFBPs: which lists to screen, when to freeze, what to report to the EOCN and how to keep the evidence.
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- sanctions
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The OFAC 50 percent rule, explained for screening teams
What OFAC's 50 Percent Rule actually says, how aggregate and indirect ownership are counted, where teams get it wrong, and how to compute it across an ownership chain.
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- ofac
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