Watchlists and screening on customers and payments.
Paying someone on a sanctions list is not a mistake you can fix with a reversal. Screening has to happen when a customer is onboarded, when their details change, and when they pay someone new.
Bridge screens customers and payments against the watchlists you load, and holds matches for a person to decide. Every decision is kept, so you can show a regulator what was checked and what was done.
The lists your compliance team is required to screen against, plus your own internal list.
Every new customer and business is checked before their account opens.
A new name, a new director or a new address triggers a fresh check.
Beneficiaries are checked before a payment posts.
Possible matches wait for compliance, and the decision is recorded with its reason.
At onboarding and whenever key details change.
Beneficiaries checked before money moves.
Add internal blocklists alongside the lists you are required to use.
Matches are held for compliance, never cleared automatically.
What was screened, what matched and what was decided, ready to file.
Every check and decision is kept for audit.
Illustrative businesses, not customers. Figures are made up to show the flow.
A money transfer operator in Lagos · Fintechs & neobanks
The operator must screen every sender before their first transfer, and again if their details change. Its current process is a manual search before each payout.
Screening happens once, at the right moments, instead of by hand before each payout.
An NGO paying field contractors in Maiduguri · NGOs & government
Donors require proof that no payment went to a sanctioned person. The NGO pays hundreds of contractors a month.
The NGO can show its donors every payment was screened.
A microfinance bank in Enugu · Banks, MFBs & PSBs
Business customers add directors without telling the bank. A new director could be on a list nobody checked.
New owners are screened the day they appear, not at the annual review.
The lists you load, which should be the ones your regulator requires, plus any internal lists.
No. Possible matches wait for a person in compliance to decide.
Yes. Every check and decision is recorded and can be exported for regulatory reporting.
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