The categories that matter
Foreign PEPs: senior executive, legislative, and judicial roles outside your jurisdiction.
Domestic PEPs: the same, inside your jurisdiction.
International Organisation PEPs: senior roles at IOs (UN, IMF, World Bank, regional MDBs).
Relatives and Close Associates (RCAs) of PEPs: the risk vector auditors ask about first.
Risk-based, not tick-box
Not every PEP hit is high-risk. Corroborate with country, role seniority, and the nature of the relationship.
Document the risk decision. FIUs care less about how many hits you found and more about how you triaged each one.
Refresh regularly: PEPs move in and out of office. A rear-view screening is not screening.
Operating model
Screen at onboarding, and continuously at rest.
Auto-route positive hits to the merchant watchlist and a case.
Escalation matrix: analyst → team lead → MLRO / CCO for material decisions.
Evidence retention: keep the source list version, the hit record, and the decision rationale for the applicable retention period.
What OneAI ships
Sanctions & PEP screening across the corpus (see the watchlists page for the current live sources).
Positive hits open a case automatically and flag the merchant across the platform.
Every decision is recorded with the reviewer, the timestamp, and the evidence attached.
Regulator-ready export at any point in the case lifecycle.