Vendor Selection Guide - Sanctions & AML Screening

Choosing the right sanctions & AML screening vendor

Choosing the right vendor can be a tricky process. We make it simple for you to choose based on your personal requirements.

5evaluation pillars
25+features assessed
2 minto your checklist
The evaluation framework

Five things separate screening vendors. Everything else is noise.

These five factors decide whether a screening solution holds up in production. Select one to see what to look for, and what to be sceptical of.

The Requirements Builder turns your answers into a prioritized checklist of every feature your screening vendor must have.

Screening Vendor Requirements Builder
Built on the sanctions.io vendor evaluation framework
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The Vendor Selection Guide

The complete evaluation framework behind this tool - with the full feature deep-dives, why each factor matters, and how to pressure-test vendor claims. Share it with everyone on the buying committee.

Vendor Selection Guide

Inside the guide

  • The 14 name-matching challenges most vendors fail
  • Why 60-minute data updates are the new baseline
  • The integration features that kill manual work
  • Security & uptime standards worth demanding
  • Pricing red flags - and what fair looks like
From teams in the market

Hear from our customers directly

"We were screening at onboarding and nowhere else. Beneficiary screening at claim caught two designated payees in the first quarter - both would have gone unchecked."

Head of Financial CrimeDigital life insurer · 900k policies · US/CA

"Our old provider added more than 30 seconds to checkout. Conversion dropped significantly. Moving to sanctions.io improved conversion and our compliance process."

VP EngineeringEmbedded travel MGA · 4.1m policies/yr · EU

"Our supervisor requires detailed audit trails of our monitoring activities for all our insurance holders. What used to be a two-week project for every audit is now done within minutes."

Compliance OfficerMotor & gadget insurtech · Series B · US
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Key features
80+ lists, updated every 60 minutes
AI name matching for fewer false positives
API integration with 500ms response time
SOC 2, GDPR compliant with 99.9% SLA
Transparent pricing with a free 7 day trial
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Handbook · 28 pages · PDF

The practical guide to sanctions screening

How screening programmes are built, tuned and defended: list selection across OFAC, EU, UN and HMT/OFSI, thresholds you can defend in an examination, false-positive management, and the evidence examiners ask for.

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Buyer's guide · 14 pages · PDF

data.world case study with sanctions.io

Explore how data.world, a leading SaaS company, partnered with sanctions.io to streamline global sanctions compliance. Learn how sanctions.io screens millions of users and cut false positives for data.world.

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Explore how AI, continuous monitoring and zero-touch screening are contributing to the future of compliance automation. Understand what it takes to scale an automated screening program with frameworks and next steps.