Which activity ensures adherence to sanctions regulations?

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Sanctions compliance focuses on preventing transactions with sanctioned individuals, entities, or countries. The activity that ensures adherence is OFAC compliance, because it builds and maintains a program that screens customers and payees against official sanctions lists, flags matches, blocks or rejects restricted transactions, and records and reports as required. An OFAC compliance program includes policy development, controls, ongoing training, and independent testing to show that sanctions rules are being followed across all payments. Documentation of Screening records what was checked but doesn’t by itself enforce the restriction; it’s part of the process. Risk-Based Decision relates to evaluating overall risk and guiding controls, not the specific enforcement of sanctions rules. Check Payees helps verify recipient details, but it doesn’t address sanctions regulations directly.