- 2026-05-21 · DueVestor Research · 6 min readOFAC Sanctions Screening: A Complete Guide for Fintech Compliance Teams
What the SDN list is, how OFAC screening actually works inside a fintech, where false positives come from, and the 7 mistakes that have cost firms eight-figure settlements since 2023.
- 2026-05-20 · DueVestor Research · 5 min readPEP Screening: How to Build a Defensible Politically Exposed Persons Program
The FATF definition, Tier-1 vs Tier-2 vs RCAs, where the data actually comes from, refresh cadence that holds up under audit, and the documentation pattern that has carried compliance teams through Mutual Evaluations.
- 2026-05-19 · DueVestor Research · 5 min readAdverse Media Screening at Scale: AI-Augmented Workflows for KYC Teams
Why traditional keyword adverse-media screening generates 70%+ false positives, where LLM classifiers actually help, multilingual challenges that vendors quietly fail at, and a 7-criterion evaluation framework for picking a vendor.
- 2026-05-18 · DueVestor Research · 5 min readFrom 4 Hours to 4 Minutes: How DueVestor Cut Due-Diligence Time by 95%
An illustrative case study modeled on a typical Israeli fintech compliance workload — 400 onboardings per month, 6 jurisdictions, $96K annual analyst spend on manual screening reduced to a four-minute autonomous report.
- 2026-05-12 · DueVestor team · 2 min readWhat is FCPA third-party vetting — and when do you actually need it?
A short, jargon-free guide to FCPA third-party vetting: when the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act applies to your brokers / agents / consultants, what the 16 red flags actually look like, and the difference between a one-off compliance check and a monitored program.
- 2026-05-12 · DueVestor team · 2 min readComparing OFAC SDN list providers: DueVestor vs Refinitiv World-Check
A side-by-side of the data sources, freshness model, and update cadence for sanctions screening — and why "more lists" is not the same as "better screening".
- 2026-05-12 · DueVestor team · 1 min readWhen does a private-equity fund need broker due diligence?
Most PE funds run KYC on the GP and the target. The intermediaries — placement agents, broker-dealers, local consultants — slip through. Here is when that is fine, when it is dangerous, and where to start.
- 2026-05-13 · DueVestor team · 2 min readWhy vetting a company without its UBOs is a critical compliance failure
A clean shell company is not a clean entity. The hard part of due diligence is the people behind the legal wrapper — UBOs, controlling shareholders, board directors. Vetting only the entity is the canonical false-clean.