Sanction and Watchlist Screening

Faster, Safer Onboarding with Accurate Screening

Screen new customers at onboarding using patented AI to accurately detect high-risk individuals and entities.

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Challenges

Challenges We Solve

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Poor name matching precision
Legacy screening solutions struggle with multilingual watchlists and Arabic naming conventions, resulting in excessive false positives, missed hits, and compliance risk.
False positives that slow down onboarding
Basic screening tools often flag legitimate customers as suspicious, overwhelming compliance teams with false positives and delaying customer onboarding.
Keeping pace with global watchlists updates
Frequent updates to sanctions, PEP, and RCA lists make it difficult for teams to maintain comprehensive and timely screening coverage, exposing institutions to regulatory breaches.
How FOCAL facilitates this use case

How FOCAL helps you screen customers accurately in real-time

FOCAL enables frictionless onboarding by automating screening against global and local watchlists, supporting high-volume checks and delivering actionable alerts in real-time.

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Integrate seamlessly into your onboarding flow (API)

  • Connect via API for frictionless screening within existing workflows.
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  • Support both real-time checks and large-scale batch uploads.
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  • Ensure continuous KYC data update for faster compliant onboarding.
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Detect high-risk individuals with FOCAL’s global watchlist coverage

  • Match individuals and entities against 1300+ sanctions, PEP, and RCA lists.
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  • Cover international and regional regulatory requirements with continuous list updates.
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  • Flag new matches immediately with real-time detection.
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Identify matches accurately with Arabic-first name matching AI

  • Patented AI Name Engine  to handle Arabic naming conventions, spelling variations, and transliterations.
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  • Detect transpositions and partial inputs with advanced phonetic and alignment logic.
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  • Minimize false positives to reduce manual workload and accelerate onboarding.
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Scale onboarding with batch screening

  • Screen thousands of customer records in a single process without delays.
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  • Process high volumes quickly while maintaining accuracy.
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  • Apply outcomes automatically for faster onboarding decisions.
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Act immediately with real-time alerts

  • Receive immediate alerts when a customer name matches with a watchlist entry.
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  • Instantly approve customers with no matches or risk results.
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  • Support fast, digital onboarding with continuous background screening.
Benefits

How FOCAL ensures safer onboarding

Comprehensive screening for compliance
Screen against global and regional watchlists, including sanctions, PEPs, RCAs, and custom internal lists to meet evolving regulatory obligations and identify high-risk customers during onboarding.

Patented AI for accurate name matching
Match names with precision using Arabic-first, patented AI that accounts for spelling variations, transpositions, and initials. FOCAL combines phonetic scoring and alignment logic to identify the most relevant results and improve accuracy.
Faster reviews with fewer false positives
Filter out irrelevant matches, surface true risks, and reduce manual workload, enabling compliance teams to act decisively and reduce onboarding delays.
Faster onboarding with batch screening and automation
Screen large customer volumes in a single process and apply rule-based automation to instantly clear low-risk customers, freeing teams to focus only on escalations.

Advantages

Why Businesses Choose FOCAL

Designed to meet the highest regulatory standards, screening customers in real-time during onboarding.

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Arabic-first patented AI name matching that handles variations and reduces false positives.
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1300+ global, regional, and custom watchlists with continuous updates.
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Custom internal watchlists tailored to your risk and compliance needs.

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Batch screening at scale to process thousands of profiles with accuracy and speed.
Industries

Industries We Protect

Designed to meet the highest regulatory standards, screening customers in real-time during onboarding.

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Banks & Financial Services
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Fintech
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Capital Markets
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Financing & Lending
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Insurance
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Governments & Public Services
Testimonials

Real Results from Real Teams

Hear how FOCAL is helping compliance teams work faster and reduce risk.

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Fair to say that FOCAL’s sanction screening solution is straightforward, reliable, and always available. Not to mention FOCAL’s professional and friendly account managers and subject-matter experts who guided us through the entire process.

Hashem Sbeitan
Risk & Fraud Director

FOCAL has proven to be an invaluable asset for us, resulting in more than 87% reduction in our onboarding time and enhancing our operational efficiency. This has allowed us to easily onboard new customers and grow confidently.

Ali Alshamrany
Risk & Fraud Director

FOCAL allows us to be compliant quickly. We use FOCAL to automate the screening of our customers with relative ease. FOCAL’s ever-evolving offerings never fail to surprise us, and it gives us confidence in the product’s ability to keep up with rising expectations of both regulators and customers.

Hussein Hejles
Director of Compliance
FAQ’s

Frequently Asked Questions

  • How do I screen a customer in FOCAL?

    You can screen customers in FOCAL through three flexible methods: – Manual input for quick individual checks – Batch upload to screen large volumes at once – API integration for seamless, automated screening within your onboarding systems

  • Can I screen in batches?

    Yes. You can upload thousands of customer records at once for batch screening and get automated match results.

  • Can FOCAL adapt to our industry-specific fraud patterns?

    Absolutely, FOCAL comes with configurable, industry-specific rules tailored for banking, fintech, telecom, e-commerce, and more.

  • Does FOCAL reduce false positives during screening?

    Yes. Our platform uses Arabic-specific name matching and phonetic logic to reduce alert noise and improve accuracy.

  • Can I screen both individuals and companies?

    Absolutely. FOCAL supports entity and individual screening with equal precision.

    • Protect Customer Account, Reduce Fraud Losses, and Enhance Trust

    Enable faster, more reliable onboarding with AI/ML-powered customer screening that reduces false positives and ensures regulatory compliance.

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