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 …
Do as I say, but not as I do In recent posts, I have pointed out a few of the main reasons why I believe that OFAC name-screening is fraught with so many uncertainties, making compliance unnecessarily difficult for many conscientious financial entities in the U.S. and around the world. …
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 …
Ah, the many drawbacks of fame and fortune… One of the most spectacularly successful examples of personal branding on the planet is: Màikè’ěr· Qiaodan. What’s that? Never heard of him? That’s odd, because at least a billion other people know him very well. The know his soaring silhouette, his profile, …
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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 …
According to the 2010 U.S. Census, there are some 1.7 million U.S. residents who identify themselves as being principally of Korean descent . Many large cities across the U.S. have sizeable Korean communities, and these communities generate a significant amount of commercial activity. For these reasons and more, it is …
One of the most challenging aspects of automated name-processing is accounting for the many ways in which a name can be changed when it is adapted from its original written form for representation in a different writing system. Perhaps the most benign form of this problem can be seen when …
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 …
