Your sector puts you under closer regulatory scrutiny. Your compliance program needs to reflect that.
Gaming, aviation, telecoms, technology platforms, real estate, and other non-financial businesses are increasingly in scope for AML and sanctions compliance. Regulators are no longer limiting enforcement to banks and fintechs. In 2025, OFAC enforcement actions focused primarily on corporates involved in trade transactions not financial institutions. Sanction Scanner gives high-risk businesses the screening, counterparty verification, and monitoring tools to stay ahead of that scrutiny.
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Regulatory obligations do not stop at banks and fintechs. They reach your sector too.
Non-financial businesses operating in high-risk sectors are now primary enforcement targets and the expectations are the same as for banks.
OFAC's 2025 enforcement actions targeted corporates in trade transactions not banks.
For decades, AML enforcement focused almost exclusively on financial institutions. That has changed. In 2025, OFAC's sanctions enforcement actions were directed primarily at corporates involved in trade and business transactions. Non-financial businesses operating in high-risk sectors, crossing jurisdictions, or working with complex supply chains are now primary enforcement targets. The risk is real and it is no longer someone else's problem.
In September 2025, the US Commerce Department expanded its export blacklist to automatically include subsidiaries over 50% owned by blacklisted entities. This means a business relationship that appeared clean at the corporate level can carry sanctions exposure at the ownership level. Knowing who controls the companies you work with is no longer a due diligence best practice it is a legal requirement.
Regulators found repeatedly that businesses failed to apply sufficient scrutiny to high-risk counterparties and business relationships. EDD is not just for banks. Any organisation that onboards clients, screens partners, or processes transactions involving high-risk sectors, jurisdictions, or ownership structures is expected to demonstrate proportionate due diligence. The documentation requirement is the same regardless of whether you are a bank or a gaming company.
You are not a bank. But the sanctions and AML rules still apply to you.
Non-financial businesses in high-risk sectors like gambling and gaming, aviation, real estate, technology platforms, precious metals dealers, and others are designated as obliged entities under FATF guidance and the AML frameworks of most major jurisdictions. That means KYC, sanctions screening, adverse media checks, and suspicious activity reporting are all requirements, not options. Sanction Scanner gives non-financial businesses the tools to meet those requirements without building an in-house compliance function from scratch.
Screen everyone you do business with customers, partners, and counterparties.
Every module connects to your existing systems via API in days, not months.
Screen every customer and counterparty at onboarding
Sanction Scanner screens individuals and businesses against 3,000+ global sanctions lists, PEP databases, and adverse media sources across 220+ countries in seconds. Whether you are onboarding a client, signing a supplier agreement, or processing a business payment, every relationship can be checked before it begins.
AML Screening →Verify the businesses behind the businesses you work with
The entity you sign a contract with may not be the entity that controls the funds. KYB verifies business structures, identifies Ultimate Beneficial Owners, and surfaces hidden ownership risks so a sanctioned individual hiding behind a corporate structure does not become your liability.
KYB →Score every relationship by risk level
Not every client or partner carries the same compliance exposure. Customer Risk Assessment assigns dynamic risk scores based on geography, sector, ownership structure, and transaction behaviour ensuring your team applies enhanced due diligence to the relationships that actually warrant it, without applying it uniformly to every counterparty.
Customer Risk Assessment →Monitor your business relationships for changes in risk status
A clean business partner today can appear on a sanctions list tomorrow. Ongoing Monitoring re-screens your entire portfolio of customers and partners daily, alerting your team the moment a risk status changes without any manual intervention or periodic review cycle.
Ongoing Monitoring →Scan global news and enforcement databases for reputational risk
Adverse Media Screening monitors global news sources, regulatory notices, and enforcement databases for negative coverage linked to your counterparties surfacing reputational and financial crime risks that standard sanctions screening misses entirely.
Adverse Media →Non-financial businesses do not operate compliance platforms, they operate CRMs, ERP systems, procurement tools, and partner management platforms. Sanction Scanner integrates via a RESTful API with webhook support, designed to connect into the workflows where screening decisions are actually made: Supplier onboarding, client acceptance, contract processing, and payment approval. No API integration fees. No server costs. No separate data subscription. Everything is included.
API Integration →Built for the frameworks that govern non-financial businesses with AML obligations
From FATF DNFBP guidance to OFAC strict liability Sanction Scanner maps to every major framework that applies to high-risk businesses.
FATF designates Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions including gaming, real estate, legal services, precious metals, and others as obliged entities under its AML/CFT standards. Sanction Scanner's tools are designed to satisfy the CDD, EDD, and suspicious activity reporting requirements that FATF sets out for this category of business.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control imposes strict liability for sanctions violations on any US person or entity regardless of industry. Sanction Scanner's real-time screening against SDN and OFAC Consolidated lists supports the controls OFAC expects in the corporate sector.
6AMLD and its predecessors extend AML obligations to a broad range of non-financial businesses operating in the EU. Sanction Scanner's EU-wide coverage supports compliance for obliged entities across all 27 Member States.
The UK Money Laundering Regulations designate a wide range of non-financial sectors as regulated entities with full AML obligations. Sanction Scanner supports compliance screening and monitoring for UK-registered businesses in regulated sectors.
Find out what AML compliance looks like for your specific sector and structure.
Book a demo with our team. We will map your screening and monitoring requirements to the right combination of products, based on your industry, your counterparty profiles, and the regulatory frameworks that apply to you.
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