api, #security, #compliance, #discuss Last Tuesday I typed Sergei Ivanov into a sanctions screener and watched it explode. The API came back with 101 total matches : 50 from OFAC SDN, 1 from the UN Consolidated list, 50 from EU FSF, and zero from UK FCDO or BIS CSL. Threshold was 0.7. One common Russian name. A hundred and one alerts. I'd spent the previous week arguing that fuzzy logic was the only responsible way to catch sanctions evaders. They change spellings, swap transliteration...