Sanctix Research Team
Research, Sanctix
The Sanctix research team covers sanctions enforcement, screening practice and trade compliance for freight forwarders and logistics companies.
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11 articles in the Sanctix Journal
Enforcement Breakdown: Pegasus Worldwide Logistics and a Supplier That Changed Its Name
A $5,950 machine, a supplier renamed after its designation, and a phone number that never changed. What OFAC's settlement with a dozen-person forwarder says about when to screen, what to screen, and how to answer a subpoena.
Enforcement Breakdown: Fracht FWO and an Unscreened Charter Flight
An urgent air charter, a carrier owned by a blocked Venezuelan airline, and an aircraft OFAC had listed under its old registration. What the Fracht FWO settlement shows about screening under time pressure.
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 deemed export under the EAR. And the Military End-User rule has two separate tracks, and only one of them 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.
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: A Practical Compliance Guide
How the OFAC 50 Percent Rule works, how to add up direct and indirect ownership by blocked persons, and why a clean name check does not clear an entity that is blocked through its owners.
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: normalization, transliteration, candidate retrieval, scoring, and why recall usually matters more than raw speed.