Farid Oudray
Founder, Sanctix
Founder of Sanctix. Engineer with a background in software and China–global trade, based in Morocco.
Briefings by Farid Oudray
15 articles in the Sanctix Journal
Build vs Buy Sanctions Screening: An Engineering Decision Framework
Should you build watchlist screening in-house or buy a screening API? A framework covering list ingestion, fuzzy matching, audit evidence, and the true cost of each path.
Sanctions Screening Glossary: 30 Terms Every Compliance Team Should Know
Plain-language definitions for SDN lists, the OFAC 50 Percent Rule, denied vs restricted parties, UBO, fuzzy matching, and 25 more terms your auditors expect you to know.
Sanctions Screening Software Buyer's Guide: 12 Criteria That Actually Matter
Evaluating sanctions screening vendors? Twelve concrete criteria — list freshness, match evidence, ownership graphs, audit artifacts — plus the questions that expose weak products in a demo.
Real-Time vs. Batch Sanctions Screening: API Architecture Tradeoffs for Compliance Engineering Teams
Real-time and batch screening solve different problems, not the same problem at different speeds. A practical framework for deciding which pattern — or which combination — your architecture actually needs.
Deemed Exports and the BIS Military End-User Rule: What Actually Counts as a "Deemed Export"
A foreign national employee reading controlled source code in your own office can be a export under the EAR. And the Military End-User rule has two separate tracks — only one of which shows up on a screening list.
Denied Party Screening vs. Restricted Party Screening vs. Sanctions Screening: What's Actually Different
Compliance vendors use these three terms interchangeably, but they map to different legal authorities, different government lists, and different trigger conditions. Here's the distinction that actually matters.
PEP Screening vs Sanctions Checks: Key Compliance Guide
Master the legal, operational, and regulatory differences between PEP screening and sanctions checks to build a risk-based AML control framework.
KYC, AML, and Compliance: Key Differences & Regulatory Guide
Understand the clear distinctions, overlaps, and regulatory obligations between KYC, AML, and enterprise compliance in modern financial institutions.
What Do Trade Sanctions Actually Mean? A Beginner’s Guide
A plain-English guide to trade sanctions: what they restrict, how primary vs. secondary sanctions work, legal obligations for businesses, and key compliance essentials.
OFAC 50 Percent Rule: The Ultimate Compliance Guide
Learn how the OFAC 50 Percent Rule works, how to calculate indirect ownership, and how to build a robust sanctions screening process to mitigate risk.
Circumvention Corridors & Transshipment Risk: The 2026 OFAC Compliance Framework
An authoritative analysis of recent OFAC and UN Security Council guidance regarding intermediate transshipment hubs, front company logistics networks, and automated trade corridor screening.
Navigating the OFAC 50 Percent Rule: Graph Database Patterns for Complex Corporate Structures
How to programmatically compute aggregate ownership across multi-layered offshore entities, shell holding companies, and joint ventures using graph query algorithms.
BIS EAR Semiconductor Export Control Matrix: ECCN Screening & Military End-User Protocols
A comprehensive guide to Export Administration Regulations (EAR), Commerce Control List (CCL) classification, foreign direct product rules (FDPR), and automated BIS license verification.
Fuzzy Name Matching for Sanctions Screening: How the Architecture Fits Together
How a sanctions screening engine turns a messy input name into a ranked list of candidate matches: normalisation, transliteration, candidate retrieval, scoring, and why recall usually matters more than raw speed.
EU 14th & 15th Sanctions Packages: CS3D Supply Chain Due Diligence Mandates
An executive briefing on European Union Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) enforcement, anti-circumvention clauses, and Russian re-export prevention duties.