Blog Post: From Onboarding to Ongoing: Building Sanctions Compliance into the Client Lifecycle

Most firms can show that every new client was screened before the account opened. Fewer can show when an existing client was last screened, against which version of the UK sanctions list, and who cleared the result. That gap is where real exposure tends to sit, because new designations keep arriving and ownership changes hands, and a client who was clean at onboarding can be controlled by a designated person three years later.