Sanctions360 supports enhanced due diligence (EDD) activities by providing additional context related to potential sanctions exposure, helping teams assess potential direct and indirect risk indicators.
Sanctions imposed on entities and individuals can affect supply chains, vendor management, customer relationships, and operations throughout the global business community.
Moody’s solutions can help you navigate sanctions-related considerations in a rapidly changing environment and support your efforts to identify whether organizations or individuals in your network may be subject to sanctions, including potential indirect exposure.
Our data includes sanctions lists and watchlists that can be used to support international sanctions screening activities.
Moody's intelligent screening database is designed to support more efficient and consistent sanctions screening activities against relevant global sanctions and watchlists.
Moody's company data can be used to analyze ownership and control structures of legal entities. Queries can be set up to help surface entities that may warrant additional customer review in light of considerations such as OFAC’s 50% rule and the EU and UK's "control" frameworks.
Sanctioned entities may attempt to obscure their ownership and control through family members or close connections. Moody's solutions provide information that can help support the review of complex networks and potential exposures.
If you have any questions about sanctions rules, sanctions screening, and potential risk exposures and would like to talk to one of our industry practice leads, please get in touch any time.
Moody’s new sanctions whitepaper discusses shifts in sanctions enforcement, evasion techniques, and the types of knowledge and tools that can support compliance teams in addressing sanctions-related risks.
"We knew we wanted to transform our KYC and sanctions processes. By implementing Maxsight, we moved from manual, one-size-fits-all checks to a risk-based approach—automating, where possible, to focus resources on high-risk customers.”
— Alastair Lauder
KYC and Sanctions Programme Lead, WTW
Go beyond sanctions lists by combining ownership and control information to provide additional context around potential sanctions risk exposure.
Upload your portfolio and cross-reference it with Moody’s ownership, watchlist, and sanctions data.
Review summary statistics, including potential matches and related entities.
Coverage of major sanctions regimes and watchlists globally to support screening activities using regularly updated information.
Not all sanctioned entities are named on lists. Ownership, control, voting power, and linkages can be reviewed in light of considerations such as OFAC's 50% rule and the UK and EU's "by control" approaches.
Sanctions frameworks can change quickly. Having access to updated information can help organizations assess potential exposure across customers, suppliers, and partners.
Sanctioned entities and individuals may operate through family members, friends, and associates, or other means such as shell companies. Reviewing associations below ownership thresholds, including relevant personal and professional connections, can help inform risk-based decision-making within sanctions compliance contexts.
Financial sanctions can restrict certain activities with sanctioned entities, including those that involve issued securities. While some securities are identified on sanctions lists (for example, via ISINs), coverage is not always robust and organizations are generally expected to assess whether a security may be linked to a sanctioned issuer.
Moody's sanctioned securities screening solution uses our proprietary database to help support the review of:
If sanctions securities screening is a part of your risk management activities, please get in touch to learn how Moody's solutions can help support your review process.
Tracking sanctions regimes, particularly those that are complex or rapidly evolving, can present compliance, legal, reputational, operational, and strategic considerations.
Read our article, including an interactive sanctions map, to find out more about sanctions regimes across in different regions.
With sanctions enforcement tightening and evasion tactics evolving, organizations are reassessing how they approach risk, compliance, and international operations. In this episode of Risk Reframed, host Alex Pillow is joined by Hera Smith and Ted Datta, Industry Practice Leads at Moody’s, to discuss recent developments in sanctions and considerations for your year ahead.
Understand the complexities of sanctions on the energy sector including shipping, with insights into compliance challenges & how technology helps mitigate risk.
The global political landscape is volatile, and sudden shifts in international or foreign relations can result in the introduction of swift and complex sanctions regime changes. At the same time, in response to new and tougher sanctions imposed on them, sanctioned individuals and entities operating in key sectors are employing increasingly sophisticated sanctions evasion techniques.
The European Council has introduced new sanctions-related regulation and issued a directive focused on enhancing transparency regarding the flow of funds related to Russian-owned entities out of the EU. Read more about the changes and ongoing requirements.
Why sanctions risks increasingly stem from indirect relationships, ownership structures, and network exposure; beyond published lists and formal designations.
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