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How to Test Your Sanctions Screening in 1 Hour (Before the Regulator Does)

Most compliance teams test screening with perfect data. Regulators don't. Here's a 5‑step stress test for your engine: 1. The accent test Run José → Jose, Çakır → Cakir. Does your engine still match? 2. The fuzzy‑threshold trap Compare John Smith vs Jon Smith at 0.8 and 0.7. How many false positives? 3. The false‑positive baseline Pick 100 random alerts. Manually check them. If >30% are irrelevant — your team is drowning. 4. The name‑variant coverage Take one OFAC name with multiple spellings (Mohamed/Muhammad). Does your system catch all? 5. The audit artefact check Can you export a full audit trail for any alert in under 2 minutes? Bonus – the time machine test Run last month's transactions against today's sanctions list. Find anything new? That's your exposure. Found a gap? Book a 15‑min walkthrough– we'll show how Finchecker closes it.

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