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AML screening guides for customer onboarding and review
Learn where sanctions screening fits into AML and KYC work, then connect customer checks, external assessments, case review and monitoring.
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Add a clear screening step to onboarding
Use these guides to fit SanctionsKit into your customer review process. Start with customer screening: choose the subject, apply the required policy, run a check and follow any candidate into review.
For a first workspace, use what is sanctions screening or the small-business workflow. Developers can connect the same steps through the fintech API guide.
Keep the wider customer checks assigned
Use KYC, AML and sanctions screening to see which question each check answers. Who is the customer? Does a selected list contain a possible match? What else must the team assess? A permitted editor can add outside tasks and staff instructions in Screening policies.
The AML guide and OFAC vs AML guide explain what a list result leaves open. Other tools or teams still verify identity, research owners and review transaction patterns. SanctionsKit does not replace those tasks or a comprehensive PEP and adverse-media service.
Make the review record useful
Open the Review queue for candidates and other tasks required by policy. The AML case guide helps keep the findings together: the match review, outside checks and business decision. Each one should have its own reason and evidence.
The workspace setup guide explains which controls to set. Give each open request for evidence an owner. For example, if another team must confirm who owns a company, name who will bring that answer back to the case.
Follow continuing relationships
Save ongoing subjects in Counterparties. The monitoring operations guide explains enrollment, identity changes and follow-up when a later check needs attention.
Read sanctions vs transaction monitoring before connecting events to another system. A new list comparison updates the screening evidence. It does not examine the customer's transaction behavior.
Frequently asked questions
Where do these AML guides fit in a wider compliance program?
They cover the sanctions-screening step and how to connect its evidence with customer review. Use your existing processes for the other applicable AML and KYC duties, with clear owners and references for outside assessments.
Which guide explains KYC without treating it as sanctions screening?
The KYC, AML and sanctions screening comparison explains the different questions each process answers. Use it to decide which system supplies identity evidence and which tasks must remain open after a list no-match.
Can an AML workflow require review when no list candidate appears?
Yes. A policy may require external checks or approval even after a no-match. The AML case guide explains how to keep that work visible and record its evidence before the business decision.
Which guide should operations read after customer onboarding is built?
Use the monitoring operations guide to keep continuing subjects enrolled, handle identity changes and assign later events. Pair it with the sanctions-versus-transaction-monitoring guide so the two types of checks retain clear owners.