Overview#
When a sanctions screening system generates a hit, the real work begins. Investigators must verify the match, gather supporting evidence, coordinate with compliance leadership, prepare a regulatory filing if required, and close the case within the timeframe the relevant authority expects. Done manually across spreadsheets and email threads, the process is slow, inconsistent, and difficult to audit. The Compliance Sanctions Investigation platform centralises the entire workflow, from initial alert triage through regulatory submission, in a single managed environment.
Built for compliance officers, sanctions teams, financial intelligence units, and regulatory affairs departments, the system supports complex multi-investigator cases across 40+ jurisdictions, with automated filing templates and pre-submission validation that prevent the errors most likely to trigger regulatory rejection.
Key Features#
- Automated case creation from sanctions screening hits with ML-powered risk-based prioritisation
- Configurable multi-stage investigation workflows with automatic task generation and progression
- Multi-investigator coordination with real-time collaboration, role-based assignments, and shared case notes
- Automated evidence collection gathering blockchain data, transaction records, and entity information from multiple sources simultaneously
- Chain of custody tracking with cryptographic verification for all evidence items
- Regulatory filing automation with template-based report generation for OFAC, FinCEN, UN, EU, AUSTRAC, and 40+ jurisdictions
- Pre-submission validation ensuring filing accuracy and preventing rejections before submission
- Visual timeline tracking with Gantt-style progress monitoring and bottleneck detection
- ML-powered completion forecasting with resource heat mapping for team capacity planning
- Quality assurance checkpoints with peer review requirements and compliance checklists
- Real-time compliance coordination dashboard with role-based views for investigators, managers, and executives
Use Cases#
- Sanctions Alert Investigation: Financial institutions triage and investigate sanctions screening matches through structured workflows, from initial detection through regulatory filing, with full audit coverage
- Regulatory Filing Compliance: Compliance teams generate and submit regulatory reports across 40+ jurisdictions with automated validation and deadline tracking, preventing late or defective filings
- Multi-Jurisdictional Operations: Organisations managing sanctions investigations spanning multiple regulatory authorities apply jurisdiction-specific workflow templates to ensure the right process is followed for each authority
- Team Capacity Management: Compliance leadership optimises investigator workload through resource heat mapping, bottleneck detection, and predictive completion forecasting
Integration#
- Bidirectional connectivity with sanctions screening systems for alert ingestion and case status updates
- Transaction monitoring system integration for contextual investigation data
- Blockchain analytics platform connectivity for automated wallet and transaction analysis
- Direct submission to regulatory portals including OFAC, FinCEN, and EU authorities
- Core banking and KYC/KYB system integration for entity verification
- Data standards support including FpML, ISO 20022, FATF, STIX/TAXII, and GOAML
Open Standards#
- OASIS STIX 2.1 / TAXII 2.1: Threat-intelligence indicators linked to sanctioned entities are ingested, stored, and exported as STIX 2.1 bundles, with TAXII 2.1 feeds polled automatically to keep threat context current during investigations.
- FATF Recommendations (Financial Action Task Force): Sanctions screening data retention, AML workflow controls, and multi-jurisdictional investigation procedures are structured to satisfy FATF Recommendations on customer due diligence, record-keeping, and suspicious transaction reporting.
- FollowTheMoney (FtM) data model: OpenSanctions bulk entity data is consumed in the FollowTheMoney newline-delimited JSON format, mapping FtM property schemas (aliases, identifiers, datasets) to the internal sanctions entity model.
- goAML (UNODC): Regulatory filing output supports the goAML XML schema used by financial intelligence units globally, enabling direct submission of suspicious transaction reports to UNODC-integrated national FIUs.
- ISO 20022: Payment and financial message data ingested from transaction monitoring systems is handled in ISO 20022 format, providing a standard representation of payer/payee identifiers and transaction attributes as investigation evidence.
- FpML (Financial products Markup Language): Derivative and financial instrument records referenced in case evidence are handled in FpML format, as declared in the integration layer's data-standards support.
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: Jurisdiction codes on both investigation records and sanctioned-entity nationality fields use ISO 3166-1 three-letter country codes, ensuring consistent multi-jurisdictional classification across 40+ regulatory authorities.
- ISO 8601: All event timestamps, case deadlines, and audit records across the investigation and sanctions domains are serialised as ISO 8601 UTC strings, providing unambiguous temporal ordering for regulatory audit trails and chain-of-custody records.
Last Reviewed: 2026-02-23 Last Updated: 2026-04-14