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The Real-Time Watchlist Screening API supports screening party and payment information against lists of known or suspected parties that are involved in illegal activities, such as money laundering, terrorism financing, or other criminal behaviors.


Real-Time Watchlist Screening

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Records the resolution of a screening hit for an entity profile.

Example of a resolution for a screening hit. Note that the modification and reviewed properties are computed by the downstream alert management system.

Screening Resolution is used to record the disposition of a screening hit.

Screening Resolution

The party identifier of the screened entity.

partyId

Content-Type

The request could not be processed. When available, the error response contains additional details.


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application/vnd.sas.error

Bad request (the request is not well-formed).

The header field "Accept" does not have a supported value.

Not Acceptable. Include an Accept header with a supported value on the request.

The header field "Content-Type" does not have a supported value.

Unsupported Media Type. Include a Content-Type header with a supported value in the request.

Record a resolution for a screening hit

A channel is a type of preset that matches screened records to a specific preset based on the tags found in screened records.

Channel

A conditional exception identifies conditions that do not generate alerts for a screening request during
the screening process. A conditional exception applies if the data in a screening request satisfy the conditions
specified by the conditional exception. When these conditions are met, the screening result hit is classified as "discarded".


Conditional Exception

The collection of objects that are required to screen an entity. This is the default configuration. This request is based on a message schema and might change after deployment.

Entity Screening

The collection of objects that are required to screen a payment. This is the default configuration. This request is based on a message schema and might change after deployment.

Payment Screening

Presets are predefined options that control screening requests.

Preset

Preset Collection

A profile exception identifies a profile that does not generate alerts for a specific entity during the
screening process. A profile exception applies if both the party identifier and the screening result
profile ID match the values that are specified for the exception. When these fields match, the screening
result hit is classified as "discarded".


Profile Exception

Screening Exception Collection

Metadata that contains information about a watchlist's categories.

Watchlist Categories

Watchlist Categories Collection

Metadata that contains information about a watchlist's sanction codes.

Watchlist Sanction Codes

A collection of watchlist sanction codes.

Watchlist Sanction Codes Collection

Watchlist screening settings contain information about the configuration of the watchlist screening service.

Watchlist Screening Settings

A collection of watchlist screening statistics.

Name	Type	Required	Description
messageReference	string	false	The unique identifier that is generated by SAS Real-Time Watchlist Screening for a screening request.
profileId	string	false	The ID of the watchlist profile.
resolutionName	string	false	The name of the resolution.
productivity	string	false	The productivity impact of the resolution.
comment	string	false	Any additional comments regarding the resolution.
action	string	false	The action taken as a result of the resolution.
sendForReview	boolean	false	Indicates whether the resolution should be sent for review.
triggerException	boolean	false	Indicates whether an exception should be triggered.
modifiedBy	string	false	The user who last modified the screening resolution.
modifiedDttm	string	false	The date and time when the screening resolution was last modified.
reviewedBy	string	false	The user who reviewed the screening resolution.
reviewedDttm	string	false	The date and time when the screening resolution was reviewed.

Status	Meaning	Description
201	Created	The request succeeded.	Headers	Schema
400	Bad Request	Bad request (the request is not well-formed).		Schema
404	Not Found	The service is not available.		Schema
406	Not Acceptable	Not Acceptable. Include an Accept header with a supported value on the request.		Schema
415	Unsupported Media Type	Unsupported Media Type. Include a Content-Type header with a supported value in the request.		Schema

Record a resolution for a screening hit

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