Sanction Screening Training

Master the essential skills required to identify, assess, and manage sanctions risks with PonSun AML Academy’s Sanctions Screening Training. Designed for banking professionals, AML/KYC analysts, compliance officers, risk managers, legal professionals, and financial crime investigators, this practical training helps participants understand how to screen customers, beneficial owners, counterparties, vessels, and transactions against applicable international sanctions lists. Gain valuable knowledge of sanctions imposed by the United Nations (UN), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the United Kingdom (UK), and the European Union (EU), where relevant. Learn how to strengthen customer due diligence (CDD), enhanced due diligence (EDD), risk-based screening, and watchlist management while helping financial institutions mitigate regulatory, financial, and reputational risks.

Our comprehensive AML Sanctions Screening Training focuses on real-world screening challenges and practical investigation techniques used in financial institutions. Develop an understanding of name matching, fuzzy logic, transliteration, potential match identification, screening thresholds, alert prioritisation, false-positive resolution, escalation procedures, and sanctions risk assessment. Learn how to investigate potential matches, assess relevant customer and transaction information, document investigation findings, maintain clear audit trails, and apply effective screening controls during customer onboarding and ongoing monitoring. The course also explores sanctions compliance frameworks, watchlist updates, screening system effectiveness, and operational controls to help improve screening accuracy, support consistent decision-making, and strengthen your organisation’s financial crime prevention programme.