Moov Watchman: Compliance Screening Made Simple
What is Watchman?
Moov Watchman is a high-performance sanctions screening and compliance tool that helps businesses meet their regulatory obligations. It provides an HTTP server and Go library for searching against multiple global sanctions and screening lists.
Key Features
Watchman empowers your compliance team with powerful tools designed for accuracy, speed, and ease of use:
- Comprehensive Global Coverage: Seamlessly integrates multiple international sanctions lists, ensuring thorough compliance screening across jurisdictions.
- Advanced Fuzzy Matching: Leverages sophisticated algorithms to detect name variations and reduce false negatives, saving time on manual reviews.
- High-Performance Search: Delivers lightning-fast queries with optimized in-memory processing for real-time compliance checks.
- Flexible Integration Options: Provides an intuitive HTTP API and native Go library for seamless incorporation into your existing systems.
- Automated Data Management: Handles automatic downloads and refreshes of watchlists, keeping your data current without manual intervention.
- Customizable Configuration: Fine-tune search parameters, thresholds, and behaviors to align with your organization’s specific risk profile. See Configuration Guide for details.
- Geocoding Support: Enhances address matching accuracy with integrated providers like Google Maps and OpenCage.
- Senzing Compatibility: Supports Senzing format for advanced entity resolution and data import.
Included Lists
Watchman integrates the following lists to help you maintain global compliance:
| Source | List |
|---|---|
| European Union | Consolidated Sanctions List |
| OpenSanctions | Any senzing dataset from OpenSanctions |
| US Government | Consolidated Screening List (CSL), FinCEN 311 |
| US Treasury | Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Non-SDN list |
| United Kingdom | UK Sanctions List |
Regulatory Context
Organizations in the United States and European Union are required to comply with various sanctions programs and screening requirements, including:
- US Patriot Act compliance with the BIS Denied Persons List
- OFAC sanctions compliance requirements
- EU and UK financial sanctions regimes
Watchman helps you manage these compliance obligations efficiently through a single, powerful platform.
Getting Started
To begin using Watchman, see our:
About Moov
Moov’s mission is to give developers an easy way to create and integrate bank processing into their own software products. Our open source projects are each focused on solving a single responsibility in financial services and designed around performance, scalability, and ease of use.