PEPs and sanctions screening software
ID-Pal delivers intelligent PEP and sanctions screening software as part of a unified compliance platform, helping organisations identify exposure before onboarding and throughout the customer lifecycle.
Screen out risky individuals and businesses at onboarding
Fully automated PEPs and sanctions checks
Complete audit trails for regulatory reporting and due diligence
Intelligent decision-making
PEPs and sanctions checking software for full AML compliance
Identifying politically exposed persons (PEPs), sanctioned individuals and high-risk entities is no longer simply about searching names against lists. Enterprise organisations require screening that supports regulatory obligations, adapts to changing global risk, and enables compliance teams to make consistent, defensible decisions at scale.
ID-Pal combines advanced identity verification with intelligent politically exposed persons screening to provide greater confidence in every compliance decision, reducing your operational burden while strengthening financial crime controls for your business.
PEPs and sanctions screening for enterprises
Why choose ID-Pal for PEPs and sanctions screening?
ID-Pal helps you maintain consistent compliance processes without increasing operational complexity.
Intelligent risk detection
Screen individuals, businesses, directors and beneficial owners against global sanctions, politically exposed person databases, designed to identity risk without overwhelming your compliance teams with unnecessary alerts.
Consistent global compliance
Support regional and international AML obligations through configurable global watchlist screening policies that can be aligned to your own internal risk framework, regardless of where your customers are located.
Built for operational efficiency
Deliver screening results within a single workflow, allowing analysts to investigate, review and document decisions without switching between multiple compliance systems.
Designed for governance
Every screening event generates a complete audit history, supporting internal governance, regulatory reporting and independent compliance screening reviews.
6,000+
Global sanctions watchlists
20,000+
Adverse media sources
Daily
Monitoring
refresh rate
24/7
Sanctions
updates
End-to-end AML compliance
PEP screening with greater customisation and context
Political exposure should trigger informed due diligence, not automatic rejection. Rather than treating every PEP equally, organisations can apply their own policies to determine the appropriate level of review.
ID-Pal helps organisations identify individuals who hold, or have held, positions of public trust, along with relevant associates where applicable, allowing compliance teams to apply proportionate, risk-based decision making.
Our PEP screening software enables organisations to:
- Identify politically exposed persons globally
- Recognise varying levels of political exposure
- Apply enhanced due diligence workflows
- Support risk-based customer onboarding
- Maintain ongoing monitoring throughout the customer relationship
Coverage across 6,000+ watchlists
Global sanctions screening that keeps pace with regulatory change
Sanctions programmes evolve continuously as governments introduce new restrictions, amend existing lists and respond to geopolitical events.
ID-Pal enables organisations to screen customers and businesses against an extensive range of international sanctions sources within a single platform, helping compliance teams identify potential matches before relationships begin and throughout the customer lifecycle.
Key capabilities include:
- Real-time sanctions screening
- Continuous updates from global data providers
- Individual and corporate screening software
- Beneficial ownership risk assessment
- Configurable screening thresholds
- Ongoing rescreening as sanctions data changes
One solution for full AML screening
Reduce false positives without reducing protection
Compliance teams should spend their time investigating genuine risk, not clearing large volumes of irrelevant alerts.
ID-Pal uses intelligent matching methodologies designed to improve screening precision by considering multiple identifying attributes, reducing unnecessary investigations while maintaining strong compliance controls.
The result is:
- Faster customer onboarding
- More productive compliance teams
- Better investigator experience
- Improved operational scalability
- Stronger regulatory confidence
Secure by design
Trust backed by security, performance and results
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your customer data with privacy-first architecture and globally recognised certifications. ID-Pal helps your organisation reduce risk, meet regulatory obligations, and build customer confidence from every verification.
Finset saved
£3m
in fraud losses
Estimated impact since partnering with ID-Pal for KYC and onboarding
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99% verification accuracy
Real-time results
Zero access to customer data
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Explore the world of PEPs and sactions screening
Conducting a PEP check: tools and techniques
Compliance professionals play a crucial role in ensuring that their organisations comply with PEP and wider AML regulations. In this article, we explore some of the tools and techniques that compliance professionals can use to carry out PEP checks.
PEP, sanctions and adverse media screening guide
Sanctions screening is tied to legal restrictions, while PEP screening focuses on people in positions of influence. Plus, adverse media adds another layer – this guide sets out what each of these checks involves and what they mean in practice.
Are all Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) high-risk?
PEPs are individuals that hold prominent public positions. But are all PEPs as high-risk as they are made out to be? This article examines the reality behind that perception and outlines how to manage the associated risks.
Your PEPs and sanctions questions answered
Frequently asked questions
What is PEP screening?
PEP screening identifies individuals who hold, or have previously held, prominent public positions that may present elevated corruption or financial crime risk. Screening allows organisations to determine whether enhanced due diligence should be applied.
What is sanctions screening?
Sanctions screening checks customers, businesses and associated parties against government and international sanctions programmes to identify individuals or entities that organisations may be prohibited or restricted from doing business with.
How does ID-Pal’s PEP and sanctions screening work?
ID-Pal checks customer information against PEP and sanctions data to flag potential matches for review. Its screening considers spelling variations, transliteration differences and aliases beyond exact-name comparisons. Configurable rules help compliance teams align screening with their internal risk policies.
ID-Pal covers more than 6,000 global watchlists and 20,000 adverse media sources, ensuring a clear view across the PEPs and sanctions landscape.
What is a false positive in PEP and sanctions screening?
A false positive occurs when screening flags a customer as a potential match, but investigation establishes that the record relates to someone else. Similar names and incomplete identifying information can cause false positives. ID-Pal’s configurable matching rules help reduce irrelevant alerts and focus reviews on more relevant results.
Can ID-Pal screen both individuals and businesses?
Yes. ID-Pal supports screening of individuals alongside corporate entities, directors, shareholders and ultimate beneficial owners to provide broader visibility into organisational risk.
Does ID-Pal support ongoing monitoring?
Yes. Organisations can continue monitoring customers after onboarding, receiving alerts when sanctions status, political exposure or other relevant risk indicators change.
Can ID-Pal combine PEP and sanctions screening with identity verification?
Yes. ID-Pal combines identity verification and AML screening within one platform. This helps organisations verify who their customers are and check for potential PEP and sanctions matches within a connected workflow.
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