Northward Compliance & Risk Services

Free · One per organisation

Your OFAC sanctions risk rating.

This is the real instrument, not a quiz. You work down the sanctions risks in our library and judge the controls you actually have against each one, exactly as you would in the full Sanctions Risk Assessment. The rating comes out of that.

Before you start: what we collect, and why

Your name and organisation emailTo send you the result, and to confirm the address is yours
The domain of your emailFair use and abuse prevention
Your control judgements and your ratingTo produce the result, and to know what you saw if you contact us

We will use this to contact you about our services. We would rather say that plainly than bury it. Reply to the result email and we will not. Privacy.

Sanctions risk assessment · Free edition

Judge your controls, risk by risk.

Composite so far

Pending 0 of 6 risks answered

Free edition. 6 risks from Northward's sanctions library, scored the way the full assessment scores them. A full Sanctions Risk Assessment runs the complete set. Nothing is stored or sent until you ask for the result.

Screening and list management

High

Customers and counterparties are not screened against all applicable sanctions regimes

Inherent 9
ControlStatusEffectiveness
Screening at onboarding
Ongoing re-screening on list change
Screening of beneficial owners

Matches are cleared without a recorded reason

Inherent 7
ControlStatusEffectiveness
Four-eyes review before a match is cleared
Decision and rationale retained

Ownership and control

Critical

Indirect ownership by a designated person is not identified (50 percent rule)

Inherent 9
ControlStatusEffectiveness
Beneficial ownership collected to 25 percent
Aggregation of fractional holdings

Control is exercised by a designated person without an ownership stake

Inherent 7
ControlStatusEffectiveness
Directors and officers screened, not only shareholders
Powers of attorney and signing authority reviewed

Payments and settlement

Medium

Payments transit jurisdictions subject to comprehensive sanctions

Inherent 7
ControlStatusEffectiveness
Correspondent route review

A designated party is added to a list after the payment is authorised but before it settles

Inherent 8
ControlStatusEffectiveness
Re-screening between authorisation and settlement
Ability to halt a payment already in flight
0 of 6 risks answered Finish and get my rating

Last step

Where should we send it?

We email the rating rather than showing it here, so you have it in writing and can forward it. One assessment per organisation. What we do with this.

The two endings

Both matter. The second is not a rejection, it is the point of the design.

Ending one · result on its way

Your rating is on its way to you.

We have emailed your OFAC sanctions risk rating, the specific drivers behind it, what each one means, and what a full Sanctions Risk Assessment would add.

Composite ratingHigh
Top driverIndirect ownership not identified
Second driverBeneficial owners not screened

The report names what drove the rating and why it matters. It does not show the weightings.

Ending two · already used at your organisation

Someone at your firm has already run this.

The free assessment is one per organisation, so we cannot send a second. That is usually a good sign: it means this is already on somebody's desk. We would rather talk to you both than run the same rating twice, and a conversation will get further than the free version anyway.

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This assessment is an instrument, not regulated advice. Disclaimer.

Want the same thing for AML or fraud?

The free edition covers sanctions. The AML/ATF and Fraud assessments run on the same engine.