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Forty alerts, thirty-nine false: screening that holds up in both directions
Your screening tool flagged 40 names this morning. 39 are noise. Are you sure about the 40th? Sanctions and PEP screening fails in two directions, and both are expensive.
· 2 MIN READ · BY THE KYCK DESK
Two ways screening fails
Too loose, and a real match slips through. That is the one that becomes a regulatory finding. Too noisy, and analysts spend the day clearing false positives until alert fatigue sets in and the real hit is cleared with the rest. The goal is not more alerts. It is the right ones, with the evidence to back every decision.
What cuts the noise without hiding the risk
- Screening the whole structure, not just the headline name: the company, its directors, shareholders and beneficial owners on the same pass.
- Secondary identifiers, such as country of registration, nationality or date of birth, so a namesake elsewhere does not look like the person you onboarded.
- Explainable match scores that show which fields aligned and how strongly, so a reviewer can defend a clear line by line.
- Adverse media results that are timestamped and attached as evidence, so you know what you saw and when.
With the World-Check integration, candidates that fail a secondary field check are cleared automatically and still shown with the reason, so nothing disappears from the file without a trace.
Lists change, so the answer has to change too
A counterparty that was clean yesterday can be designated today. Any counterparty in KYCK can be re-screened against current lists on demand, and scheduled rescreening of the whole book on a cadence you choose is available as an add-on. Every run is timestamped, so you can show a regulator what was checked and when. See how sanctions, PEP and adverse media screening works in KYCK.
The question a regulator asks is simple: show me how you knew.
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