Updates to sanctions
Client screening reports are produced using data supplied from the Dow Jones risk and compliance database. Dow Jones aims to process updates to priority sanctions lists, which include sanctions lists published by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, UN, EU or HM Treasury, within 24 business hours of the data being published or the sanctions coming into force if issued during working hours Monday to Friday.
We will carry out a maximum of three name checks from a single firm per week — please submit your requests by 5pm on Friday for inclusion in that week's allocation.
Names of entities can be checked against a variety of watchlists which identify restricted, sanctioned, prohibited and high-risk individuals and businesses.
Client screening reports are produced using data supplied from the Dow Jones risk and compliance database.
Search options
You can choose to run a 'near' search, which finds close and feasible matches, or a 'precise' search, which finds the closest matches to a name. The default option is 'near' search.
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Precise
The search type Precise looks for exact and very close matches to the search criteria. Very close matches are those where the first name and surname are inverted or the first name searched is in the middle name field on a profile.
For example:
Search Match %
David Cameron
David Cameron 100%
David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron
100%
David Cameron
Bruce David Cameron
96% Precise does not look for linguistic matches.
Precise does not find a match if there are typos in the searched name or if characters are transposed between the name searched and the name on the profiles.
For example searching Sani Abatcha would not find the record for Sani Abacha, searching David Caberon/David Camreon would not find the profile for David Cameron, David William Donald Cameron or Bruce David Cameron.
Precise is useful for focusing on the closest match to a name.
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Near
The search type Near goes beyond Precise to look for linguistic matches such as phonetic and transcription variations and long and short forms of names. It can match common numbers with words and symbols in entity names. It can also match typos in words of a certain length.
For example:
Variation Search
Match % Phonetic
Elizabeth Whyte
Elisabeth Whyte
96%
Transcription
Boris Jelzin
Boris Eltsin
94%
Transcription
Abdülaziz Buteflika
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
90% Transcription
Mijaíl Sergéyevich Gorbachov
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
92% Transcription
Lyu Youqing
Lu Youqing
94%
Transcription
Somsak Kietsuranon
Somsak Kiatsuranont
94% Short/long form
Joe Allman
Joseph Allman
90% Entity abbreviation
Aberdeen Management Ltd.
Aberdeen Management Limited
98% Common number/symbols
1st Transport Management OJSC
First Transport Management OJSC
99%
Typo*
David Caberon
David Cameron
77%
*Typos are only tolerated on names over five characters long if another name element is a 100% match. Otherwise typos are only tolerated on Near on name elements over seven characters long.
On the Search tab, if one element of a person’s name is entered Near will look for that name in the Surname field.
Please note: owing to the characteristics of different scripts, not all of the above variations apply to all scripts.
Near is recommended to take advantage of the linguistic search capability.
Near finds close and feasible matches.
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