This article outlines how Strise performs screening for PEP (Politically Exposed Person) and Sanctions. The article also highlights how the screening can be modified through settings, how and when alerts are sent and key improvements implemented in v.3 - done in Q4 2025.

1. How Screening Works

This section describes the flow that takes place when Strise screens an entity for PEPs and Sanctions.

Both processes for screening PEPs and Sanctions follow a similar flow:

1. Preprocessing: This involves cleaning data by removing accents, titles, company legal form abbreviations, etc.
2. Search: A name search is conducted against PEP and Sanction lists to find relevant hits.
3. Filtering: Results are filtered based on user settings, such as PEP/RCA status expiry, similarity thresholds, and excluded sources.
4. Scoring: A weighted arithmetic mean is calculated based on a set of configurable fields and the hits are marked as suggested false or suggested true.
5. User Verification: Users can verify the results from the step above.

1.1 Preprocessing

This step normalises the name and aliases, ensuring that minor variations in spelling, accents, or special characters do not prevent us from identifying a potential match against the screening lists.

Some rules apply to both people and companies, while others are specific to the processing of a person or company. See the table below for what is performed to which entity type.