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Sanctions analysis, screening playbooks & the monthly digest
Analysis, screening playbooks, and the monthly sanctions enforcement digest from ProofAML — each post sourced from the official designation lists we publish, and linked straight into the underlying entity, program, and jurisdiction records.
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Sanctions enforcement digest — July 2026Latest posts
- Article"Not to be confused with…": we went hunting for our own false positivesName-collision false positives are a hidden tax on every screening program — analyst hours spent clearing hits against people and companies with nothing to do with a listing, and real harm when an innocent namesake gets de-risked by mistake. Our deep-research program now proactively hunts these namesakes, verifies each one against a primary source, and surfaces the safe ones directly on the entity page.
- Enforcement digestSanctions enforcement digest — July 2026This issue departs from our usual designations roundup — a full statistical and narrative analysis of the 12 AML enforcement actions publicly disclosed in July 2026 across the FCA, MAS, FINTRAC, and DNB, totaling $13.73M in penalties dominated by two Dutch banking and payments fines.
- ArticleWhat "PEP" actually means, across jurisdictions"Politically exposed person" gets used as if it's one universal legal category. It isn't. FATF sets a non-binding baseline, and the EU, US, UK, and Singapore each fill it in differently — who counts, which family members count, and for how long. A jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction explainer.
- ArticlePEPs, levelled: extending source-transparent screening to politically exposed personsWe're extending ProofAML's coverage from sanctions and watchlists to formally include politically exposed persons (PEPs) — classified by government branch and seniority level, with a published methodology for how long a former PEP keeps the flag.
- ArticleFalse-positive hygiene in sanctions screeningSanctions screening has two failure modes, not one — missing a true match, and drowning analysts in noise until they miss one anyway. Concrete, evidence-based techniques for reducing false positives without quietly increasing false negatives.
- ArticleHow to diff a sanctions list"Did we get the latest list?" is the wrong question. The one that matters is: what specifically changed since yesterday — and did our screening program process the removals as carefully as the additions? A methodology for diffing sanctions lists correctly.
- ArticleThe OFAC 50 Percent Rule, explainedOFAC blocks not just the entities on the SDN List, but any entity owned 50 percent or more in the aggregate by one or more blocked persons — even if that entity's name never appears on a list. Here's how the rule actually works, and where it just got narrower.
- Enforcement digestSanctions enforcement digest — June 2026June 2026's notable designations and enforcement actions across the authorities ProofAML publishes — OFAC, the EU Council, Global Affairs Canada, UK OFSI/FCDO, and the UN Security Council — each entry linked to the authority's own announcement, with the screening takeaway.
- ArticleWelcome to the ProofAML blogProofAML consolidates official sanctions and watchlist designations into one queryable, source-transparent corpus. This blog is where we show our work — screening explainers, source notes, and a monthly enforcement digest, each linked straight into the data.
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