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Sanctions compliance

Sanctions imposed on entities and individuals affect supply chains, vendor management, customer relationships, and operations throughout the global business community. Moody’s can help you adapt to sanctions rules in a rapidly changing environment.

Moody’s sanctions solutions enable you to determine if organizations or individuals in your network are sanctioned or sanctioned by extension. Our data includes comprehensive sanctions lists and watchlists to ensure international sanctions screening. Identify ownership, control, and associated networks, as well as proactively monitoring changing risks.

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Sanctions solutions

How can Moody's help?

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Data management

Use Moody’s Orbis for master data management and create the best starting point for your sanctions screening program.

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Sanction list screening

Moody's Grid helps ensure fast, accurate screening of all relevant global sanctions and watchlists.

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Comprehensive sanctions & exposure

Sanctions360 enables companies to conduct deeper investigative research into sanctions-related risk as part of their enhanced due diligence.

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Ownership & control sanctions

Use Orbis to understand ownership and control of legal entities. Queries can be set up to identify those sanctioned by the 50% OFAC rule and the EU & UK's "control" rules.

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Cautionary associations

Sanctioned entities frequently obscure their ownership and control through family members or close connections. Grid's Sanctions Connect uncovers hidden networks.

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Proactive monitoring

Grid updates sanctions coverage daily and delivers alerts when there is a new sanction or change. 

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Complimentary exposure check

Go beyond the sanctions lists. See how timely, accurate, and risk-relevant sanctions data combines with ownership and control information to present a full view of sanctions exposure.

Upload your portfolio and cross-reference it with Moody’s ownership, watchlist, and sanctions data

        You get full coverage statistics, including the number of matches, and the number of related entities

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Four types of sanction risk

Find out what your organization can do to ensure sanctions compliance

1. Sanctions lists

Ensure coverage of all the major sanction and watchlists around the world, and receive updates every 24 hours. Feel safe in the knowledge that you are always using the most up to date sanctions lists.

2. Ownership or control

Not all sanctioned entities are named on lists. Analyze ownership, control, voting power, and linkages to stay compliant with laws like OFAC's 50% and the EU's "by control" rules.

3. Changing sanctions

Governments can place new sanctions and restrictions quickly. Make sure you’re ready to respond and ensure you always know your customer and supply chain risk exposure.

4. Cautionary

Sanctioned entities and individuals can operate via family members, friends, or other networks. Ensure you can identify associations below ownership thresholds, as well as checking familial and personal relationships of sanctioned individuals. 

Understanding & complying with sanctions

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Moody’s is here to help you understand sanctions rules, sanctions screening, and your risk exposure. If you have any questions and would like to talk to one of our experts, please get in touch.

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Whitepaper

A new frontier in sanctions awareness and compliance

Our latest whitepaper on sanctions provides practical guidance on the implementation of sanctions; strategies to identify and address potential sanctions evasion; and best practices for compliance and risk management professionals navigating a complex sanctions landscape today.

This whitepaper was created in collaboration with the U.S. Department of State and CRDF Global, with an aim to increase awareness and enhance the effectiveness of economic sanctions. 

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Sanctioned Securities Screening

Financial sanctions prohibit doing any business with the subject entity, including dealing with their issued securities. Although some securities are directly called out within sanctions lists (by way of ISINs), this is not systematic, and firms are expected to detect whether a security has been issued by a sanctioned entity.

Moody's addresses these challenges through its proprietary Orbis database. Our Sanctioned Securities Screening solution has mapped this data to issued securities to detect:

  • Securities that might not have appeared on a sanctions list, but was issued by a sanctioned entity
  • Securities issued by an indirectly sanctioned entity 
More resources

Resources on sanctions screening

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Sanctions compliance and sanctions evasion – Increased enforcement and evolving tactics

2023 saw an increase in enforcement actions, which centered on Russian individuals and entities. This wave of enforcement action and reporting is likely to continue in 2024, but focus could shift toward “non-traditional” sectors less used to sanctions scrutiny such as corporates, insurance, and asset management, which means now is the time to prepare.

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Seven indicators of shell company risk

Shell companies can be used by criminals to conceal offenses such as fraud, tax crime, money laundering, and sanctions evasion, all of which pose a threat to the global economy. Against this background, there are significant moves from governments and the private sector to create more corporate transparency.

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How to spot sanctions evasion

Various methods are used to circumvent sanctions. Knowing what they are and how to spot them can help you avoid doing business with sanctioned entities. Following the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, the US imposed sanctions against Russia. Since then, the country’s elite have used various strategies to protect their financial interests.

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