The Helpful (and Thrifty) Fisherman Indulge me for a little bit, and let me stay with my fish story. So, you’ve headed to a hidden-away little lake in the deep north woods where pals have told you there are some trophy-sized bass to be caught. When you get there, you …
What makes a name “Anglo”? In my last post, I suggested that much of the confusion surrounding what might count as “minimally compliant” and/or “due diligence” by OFAC is a result of the way they describe and exemplify the recommended decision making process for name screening. IMHO,this process is culturally …
“We’re from the Government, and we’re here to help.” OFAC supports U.S. financial institutions in their list-screening operations in several ways. It provides: Current data on the many distinct lists of names of parties that fall under one or another of its enforcement actions, each of which is continuously updated …
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What if someone told you that there was a recent event of global significance that involved people named Meyvezer and Pak’yao. Would you guess that it was related to, say, North Korean nuclear ambitions, or Chinese naval aggression in the Sea of Japan? Or are you clever enough to see …
In every organization that maintains one or more name-centric processes (NCPs), certain organizational resources (human and technical) are allocated to conduct and/or manage those processes. Improving the outcomes from processes such as name-screening, name-capture, match-merge/customer data integration in many instances can often require little more than doing a better job …
Name-matching can be as simple as a quick visual scan of a Contacts list on a cell phone, or as complex as a multi-technique automated review of billions of lines of unstructured data in search of possible references to one or more persons of interest. Tools and techniques to cope …
The term name-centric processing refers to any automated or manual process in which a successful outcome is wholly or principally dependent on technologies and human judgment applied to named entities (NEs). Such processes can range in complexity from a simple membership look-up to sophisticated, real-time assessments of vital intelligence data …
Data assets are among the most valuable resources that an organization possesses. Many tools and technologies have been made available in the marketplace in recent years to help organizations exploit these data assets more effectively, in order to advance organizational goals or to gain a competitive advantage. This is the …
