DatactiveSanctions & PEP Screening
Sanctions and PEP screening. Real-time, comprehensive, unlimited.
Datactive Sanctions & PEP Screening is a sanctions screening solution that checks individuals and organisations in real time against the sanctions lists of more than 100 countries, Turkey's comprehensive PEP list and the asset freezing decisions published in the Official Gazette. It is used in MASAK compliance processes by banks, participation banks, payment and electronic money institutions, investment firms and insurance companies.
What Does It Screen?
Sanctions lists from 100+ countries
MASAK, OFAC, the United Nations, the European Union, UK OFSI and the national lists of more than 100 countries are screened in a single query.
Turkey's comprehensive PEP list
Covers politically exposed persons, their family members and their close business associates. PEP status is not a prohibition but a condition that calls for enhanced monitoring; Datactive presents this distinction together with a risk score.
Instant Official Gazette alerts
Asset freezing decisions are detected the moment they are published in the Official Gazette and matched against your existing customer portfolio. Instead of learning about a decision later, you act on the day it is published.
Adverse media screening
Sanctions lists only show risk that has already been decided. Adverse media screening scans news reporting allegations of financial crime, corruption, fraud and organised crime about individuals and organisations, so you can detect risk before it reaches a list. When news of an investigation into a name breaks, that name is not yet on any sanctions list — but the risk has already begun.
Datactive screens both Turkish and global sources and evaluates news with machine learning-assisted classification. Rather than raising an alert for every article that mentions a name, it distinguishes whether the article actually carries risk.
The role of adverse media screening in compliance processesHow Does It Work?
Near real-time data feed
Lists are updated automatically; no action is required on your side.
Name matching adapted to Turkish
Exact matching fails because of Turkish characters, transliteration differences and abbreviated names. Datactive works with phonetic algorithms and flexible rules; by setting thresholds to your own risk appetite, you keep the false positive workload under control.
Delta and bulk screening
Thousands of records are screened in minutes. Delta screening re-checks only the records affected by list changes, reducing operational workload.
Unlimited querying
There is no per-transaction pricing. Worrying about query limits leads compliance teams to screen less often; Datactive removes that constraint.
Audit trail and reporting
Every screening, match and decision is recorded, so during an audit you can answer "when did you screen this customer, and against which list?" retrospectively.
Who Uses It?
Datactive products are used in Turkey by public institutions, banks, participation banks, investment firms and payment institutions.
Our referencesIs sanctions screening enough on its own?
Screening only checks the name put in front of it. A sanctioned person rarely transacts under their own name; they place layered corporate structures in between. In that case, no name in the chain appears on a list, so the screening comes back clean.
Closing this blind spot requires corporate relationship analysis. DataSentinel resolves the ownership chain by analysing Trade Registry Gazette data; when it works together with Datactive, every new name that surfaces in the chain is automatically added to screening.
Our article explaining the difference between sanctions and PEP screening and relationship analysis in detail