Which term means enabling financial activities involving sanctioned entities?

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Facilitating transactions describes enabling financial activities for sanctioned entities. In sanctions compliance, any action that helps a sanctioned party move money or assets through the financial system—such as processing payments or providing banking services for that party—constitutes facilitating a transaction. This is precisely what compliance programs aim to prevent, because it directly enables prohibited activity.

The other terms refer to processes or structures rather than the act itself: an investigative process is about examining potential violations, a compliance commitments framework is the governance and promises of the institution, and risk-based compliance is the method for allocating resources based on risk. None of these capture the specific act of enabling a sanctioned party to conduct a transaction, which is why the term for that concept is facilitating transactions.