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Sanctions Screening
Stay protected with real-time screening against global and local watchlists. Anqa’s system keeps your institution compliant and alert—flagging potential risks before they become problems.
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We moved beyond simple keyword matching. Our multi-layered process understands context, culture, and complexity to dramatically reduce false positives.
1. Data Input
Customer data is ingested via API or batch upload.
2. Pre-processing
"De-noising" cleans data and removes irrelevant characters.
3. AI Analysis
Algorithms analyze phonetics, translations, and fuzzy logic.
4. Risk Scoring
A heuristic model scores potential matches for relevance.
5. Clear Result
Receive a clear, actionable alert with a high confidence score.
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Anqa's Smart Results
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Our intuitive interface provides all the necessary information in one clear view, enabling your team to make faster, more accurate decisions.
Match Details for: ABDULPATTA ESCALON ABUBAKAR
Stop Investigating Ghosts. Start Finding Real Risk.
Our software is precision-engineered to solve the biggest problems for compliance teams in emerging economies.
Slash False Positives by up to 80%
Our engine understands cultural naming conventions, transliterations, and aliases common in Africa and Asia, so your team stops wasting days on irrelevant alerts.
Screen in Real-Time, Not After
Instantly screen customers during onboarding and monitor transactions as they happen with our high-speed API. Stop risk before it enters your system.
Automate Ongoing Monitoring
Our system automatically re-screens your entire customer base against updated watchlists, providing continuous protection and peace of mind.
Comprehensive List Coverage
Access all major global and regional sanctions, PEP, and adverse media lists, updated daily, all through a single, unified API.
Advanced Fuzzy Logic Matching
We use Levenshtein, Metaphone, and Trigram analysis to find true matches even with misspellings, phonetic errors, or distorted data.
Intelligent Alert Disambiguation
Reduce analyst workload by using secondary identifiers like Date of Birth and Nationality to automatically confirm or dismiss potential matches.
Built for Developers. Loved by Compliance.
Integrate our powerful screening engine into any application in minutes with our clean, modern REST API. Get started fast with clear documentation and scalable infrastructure.
- Simple & Predictable: RESTful endpoints with clear JSON responses.
- Real-time Alerts: Use webhooks to get notified instantly of new matches.
- Secure & Scalable: Enterprise-grade security and infrastructure that grows with you.
import requests
API_KEY = "YOUR_ANQA_API_KEY"
URL = "https://api.anqacompliance.com/v1/screen"
payload = {
"name": "Asha Mohammed",
"dob": "1985-05-15",
"country": "KE"
}
headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"}
response = requests.post(URL, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.json())Sanctions & Watchlist Screening - FAQ’s
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Sanctions screening involves checking customers, companies, and transactions against global blacklists—like those issued by the UN, OFAC, EU, or local regulators. It’s required to prevent your business from unknowingly working with individuals or entities involved in crime, terrorism, or other prohibited activities.
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Anqa automatically checks names against:
Global sanctions lists (UN, OFAC, EU, UK, etc.)
Regional and national watchlists
Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)
Adverse media and law enforcement notices
Our system is updated daily to keep your compliance current.
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When you onboard a customer or process a transaction, Anqa checks the name against a database of restricted individuals and organizations. If there’s a potential match, you’re alerted to review the case. You can then approve, block, or escalate the relationship based on your risk policy.
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Yes. Anqa offers automated, real-time screening during:
Customer onboarding
Loan or payment approvals
Periodic client reviews
You can customise match sensitivity and review workflows to fit your business risk appetite.
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No. Sanctions apply globally. Even if your client is local, they may be acting on behalf of a sanctioned entity, or have indirect links through ownership or transactions. Screening every client helps ensure you’re not unintentionally enabling restricted activity.
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Unlike bulky enterprise systems, Anqa is built for emerging markets:
Affordable pricing for SMEs
Mobile-first access for field agents or remote teams
Local-language support and flexible onboarding
Built-in logs and alerts for compliance reporting
We help small teams do big compliance—with tools that actually fit your workflow.
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Missing a match can lead to:
Fines or legal action from regulators
Frozen accounts or blocked payments
Reputational damage and banking restrictions
Criminal liabilities in serious cases
Even small business can be penalised if they are found to be enabling sanctions evasion
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