I am not authorised by the FSA so do I have to comply with Financial Sanctions?

Absolutely yes – Financial Sanctions are within the remit of the HM Treasury and as such apply to most if not all companies and industries within the UK. The FSA just helps to enforce the rules. As such, businesses beyond those regulated by the FSA also need to comply. 

This is why Solicitors and Accountants should be aware of this piece of legislation. It goes without saying that both Solicitors and Accountants
are uniquely placed within client transactions creating the need for compliance with this piece of legislation.

Our system is not industry specific, so whatever your occupation, such as Accountant, Solicitor or Insurance Broker, we can provide the evidence you need to evidence the fact that you have processes in place to check that your clients are not on the Financial Sanctions List.

What do I get for my £20 per annum? Is it value for money?

You get 1 year’s full membership to the site. You also get 100 free search credits. And finally, we will screen any clients which you have already searched, annually, for as long as you are a member. All that data will stay associated with your login information to ensure you have the evidence you need.

As such, we believe SanctonsSearch.com to be very good value for money. The annual fee is not simply a figure we have plucked from the air - it is the minimum sum needed to ensure the system develops and provides you with the compliance you need – while at the same time allowing us to invest in and develop additional services to help you in future .

You also get access to our bulk upload and application interface allowing you the ability to screen any number of clients in one simple process. Whilst there are additional costs associated with these facilities they are comparable with our affordable £20 annual membership level when our competitors are charging £1000s per annum for the same service.

I use the HMT Sanctions List already why should I use SanctionsSearch.com?

The important point is that the requirements you need to fulfil to be compliant are less about merely searching the list and more about having the means to actually prove you have done so. Searching the list is easy and we will even tell you where it is and how to search it – but please bear in mind the risks!

Remember - without SanctionsSearch.com you will have no audit trail of that process.

My Company has over 2,000 clients we can’t possibly be expected to search all of them individually. What do we do?

Get in touch with us we can arrange a special price for screening all those clients. Plus, we can do a mass upload of the data in a pre-agreed format, all of which need only take a matter of hours. Once the clients are in the system, we will then screen them annually, free of charge (subject to your ongoing membership). All you do then is just screen new clients at the point of initial enquiry.

We have a website which carries out a large amount of business how can we screen the clients easily?

We also offer a web interface, just for web sites, that allows online auto screening that requires no user interaction. This means that, through the addition of a small amount of code to your site, all online business will be checked against SanctionsSearch.com giving you that all important audit trail.

Privacy and security is a big issue for my business how do you deal with it?

Privacy and security is our number one priority here at SanctionsSeach.com. We provide a service to businesses and we do not want that service to be tarnished in any way. All our servers have 128bit encryption and a verifiable security certificate. All payments received from you will again, reside under our secure server and will be transacted directly with the PayPal secure payments facility. As such, we do not take or retain any credit card information.

No-one else can view any data entered by you and we will only view the data on your explicit request.

I understand this is all about an audit trail but how do you provide that?

Simple! We provide an instant certificate for your client file, if required. In addition, the entire search history (and search results) associated with your login details is stored by the system, thus providing the required audit trail. Data including search dates and results pertaining to the automatic annual searches on clients within your account - are also stored and associated with your login details.

Great! I need this system to be part of my Financial Sanctions compliance. What do I do now?

Just click on the ‘register’ link at the top right of this page. Registration is fast and easy and once you have registered you can start searching clients straight away.

If you need additional credits or you feel that your usage is going to fall within our bespoke pricing just give us a call on the number at the top of the page and one of our team will sort something out for you .