OFAC Risk Assessment

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OFAC Risk Assessment

OFAC risk assessment focuses on identifying and mitigating sanctions exposure by evaluating how likely it is that sanctioned individuals, entities, or countries could be involved in a bank’s transactions. This involves screening customers and counterparties against OFAC lists, monitoring transactions for potential sanctions violations, and implementing controls to block, flag, or report matches or high-risk activity. The goal is to prevent prohibited dealings and ensure compliance with sanctions programs, not to measure credit quality, liquidity, or profitability. Those other areas—credit risk, daily cash flow, and customer profitability—deal with financial performance and risk, not with sanction compliance.

OFAC risk assessment focuses on identifying and mitigating sanctions exposure by evaluating how likely it is that sanctioned individuals, entities, or countries could be involved in a bank’s transactions. This involves screening customers and counterparties against OFAC lists, monitoring transactions for potential sanctions violations, and implementing controls to block, flag, or report matches or high-risk activity. The goal is to prevent prohibited dealings and ensure compliance with sanctions programs, not to measure credit quality, liquidity, or profitability. Those other areas—credit risk, daily cash flow, and customer profitability—deal with financial performance and risk, not with sanction compliance.

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