Fintra Feature
No payment to a sanctioned party
Sanctions Screening
Example figures- SDN ENTRIES
- indexed
- fuzzy match
- SCREENED
- every payee
- pre-disbursement
- MODE
- live, then snapshot
- fail-safe
- Exact name match on SDN list
- block + review
- Fuzzy / near match
- hold for confirmation
- Live list unavailable
- bundled snapshot used
- Snapshot unavailable
- keyword fallback (degraded)
- No match
- clear to proceed
Screening where the payment actually happens
Sanctions screening only helps if it sits in the payment path. Because Fintra runs the pay run, it screens each payee against the OFAC SDN list at the moment before disbursement: a fuzzy match, so near-misses and alternate spellings are caught, not just exact strings.
Why it belongs in the platform
Bolt-on sanctions tools screen a name list on a schedule and hope it lines up with what you actually pay. Screening inside the disbursement flow means the check is against the real payee, at the real moment, with the payment held automatically on a hit: compliance as a control, not a report.
Questions people ask
What list does Fintra screen against?
The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control Specially Designated Nationals (OFAC SDN) list, fuzzy-matched against every payee before a payment is disbursed.
What happens on a match?
The payment is held for confirmation or blocked, with the match surfaced for review. A payment to a sanctioned party never proceeds silently.
What if the sanctions list can’t be downloaded?
Screening fails safe through a cascade: live download, then a bundled snapshot, then a keyword fallback marked as degraded, so it never silently stops.
Why screen inside payments instead of using a separate tool?
Because the check runs against the real payee at the moment of disbursement and can hold the payment automatically, rather than comparing a stale list on a schedule.
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