SKILL / Business & Risk
Plans: Pro & AgencySanctions, PEP and Risk Screening
Review potential matches in supported sanctions, politically exposed person and related risk records, preserving identity uncertainty.
Read the step-by-step user guideSanctions, PEP and Risk Screening answers the question of whether a person or organization could be the subject of a sanctions designation, a politically exposed person entry or another public risk record. Nexus reviews supported sanctions, PEP and related risk datasets for candidate matches to a name, using known details such as country, date of birth or registration number to narrow the field, and returns the candidates with the information needed to confirm or dismiss each one.
What you get
A candidate-level screen listing potential sanctions, PEP and risk-record matches with what supports or weakens each.
Using Sanctions, PEP and Risk Screening in an investigation
The investigator receives a candidate-level screen. Each potential match shows the dataset it came from, the identifiers listed against it, why it was considered a match and the details that support or contradict it. Nexus does not collapse candidates into a single yes or no. It preserves identity uncertainty so the investigator decides which candidates warrant escalation and which are dismissed, with the reason recorded. A screen with no candidates is reported as such, not as a clearance.
Screen results attach to the case as findings, and dismissed candidates stay on record with their rationale, which supports a documented, reproducible compliance check. Sanctions, PEP and Risk Screening combines with UK Company Registry, Offshore Structure Research and News and Adverse-Media Timeline in a counterparty review, and selected case records can be exported to PDF, including available custody entries where enabled, for professional review.
Example objectives
Run the Skill directly, or describe the objective in your own words — these are the kinds of questions it is built to answer.
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“Screen this company director against supported sanctions and PEP records and tell me which matches are supported by date of birth or nationality.”
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“Are there candidate matches for this shipping company in sanctions or enforcement records, and what identifiers do they list?”
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“Which of the potential PEP matches for this name can be ruled out from the details we already hold?”
How Sanctions, PEP and Risk Screening fits the investigation
A Skill is one move inside a case. The findings stay in the case file, where the evidence behind them can be checked, graphed and reported.
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Choose or describe
Pick the Skill from the Skill Library, or describe the objective in your own words and let Nexus work out which Skills fit the question.
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Review the evidence
Open the evidence record behind any finding and read the original public source before you rely on what it says.
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Add to the case graph
Promote the people, organizations and identifiers you accept into the case relationship graph, straight from their evidence records.
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Brief and report
Turn the case into a BLUF situation brief and, on Pro and Agency, into a structured PDF report with chain of custody.
Evidence before conclusions
What Sanctions, PEP and Risk Screening cannot establish
Nexus keeps supported findings, possible matches, contradictions and information gaps apart instead of blending them into one narrative. These are the boundaries Sanctions, PEP and Risk Screening states up front.
- A name match is a candidate that still has to be checked against the subject’s identity details. It is not proof that the subject is designated, politically exposed or involved in wrongdoing.
- No candidate matches is not a clearance. Coverage depends on the supported datasets and their update cycles, and transliterated, abbreviated or altered names can escape matching.
- Nexus supports a screening decision; it does not make a regulatory determination or replace an obliged entity’s own compliance procedures.
Best for
Teams that reach for Sanctions, PEP and Risk Screening most often.
Related OSINT concepts
The vocabulary this Skill works in, defined in the glossary.
Related Skills
Skills investigators commonly run next, in the same case.
Frequently asked questions
What does Sanctions, PEP and Risk Screening return?
Sanctions, PEP and Risk Screening returns a candidate-level screen: each potential match from the supported sanctions, politically exposed person and related risk datasets, with the dataset it came from, the identifiers it lists, the reason it was considered and the details that support or weaken the match. Nexus keeps candidates separate so the investigator confirms or dismisses each one with a recorded rationale.
Does a match in Sanctions, PEP and Risk Screening mean the subject is sanctioned?
A match in Sanctions, PEP and Risk Screening does not mean the subject is sanctioned: a match is a candidate record whose name resembles the subject. Sanctions, PEP and Risk Screening shows the identifiers behind the candidate, such as date of birth, nationality or registration number, so the investigator can compare them with what the case already holds. Only when those details agree does a candidate become a supported match, and even then the decision and its reasoning belong to the investigator.
Does a clean screen mean a subject is clear?
A screen with no candidates means that no matching record was found in the supported datasets at the time of the screen. It is not a clearance. Names can be transliterated or abbreviated differently, datasets are updated on their own schedules and some risk information only surfaces in reporting. Nexus records the result with its date, and the investigator decides whether adverse-media or registry checks are also needed.
Which Nexus plan includes Sanctions, PEP and Risk Screening?
Sanctions, PEP and Risk Screening is included in the Skill Library on the Pro and Agency plans. Pro unlocks 43 of the 47 investigative Skills, including Sanctions, PEP and Risk Screening and the other business, financial and risk Skills, and Agency includes all 47.