Universities and research institutions

Research offices, faculties and central compliance teams often share responsibility for screening external parties - without a single shared record. Sanctions Checklist gives decentralised staff a consistent way to screen and document, while central teams retain oversight.

The problem

Collaborations, visits, grants and procurement involve many counterparties across departments. Ad-hoc spreadsheet checks and email trails make it hard to show who was screened, when, against which sources, and what decision was taken. List updates after the initial check add another gap.

Who you typically screen

• Research partners, co-investigators and collaborating institutions
• Visiting researchers, scholars and short-term academic guests
• Grant partners and funding-related counterparties
• Suppliers and service providers engaged by research or procurement teams
• International engagement and MOU counterparties

Workflow in this context

A faculty member or research manager extracts names from a collaboration document or enters a partner name, screens across relevant sources, investigates any matches, records the outcome (including no-match results) and enables monitoring where the relationship will continue. Central risk or compliance teams can review Checklist Reports without owning every individual search.

Capabilities and sources that matter here

• Sanctions lists - OFAC, UN, EU, UK, DFAT and other financial sanctions regimes
• Export-control sources - BIS restricted-party lists and related end-user controls
• Research-risk sources - including DoD and other research-security related lists where relevant
• Local document extraction for collaboration and proposal packs
• Organisation-wide access so research office, export control and legal share one workflow

See all data sources and the platform workflow.

What Sanctions Checklist supports - and what still requires judgement

The platform helps you find list matches, investigate them and keep a timestamped record. It does not decide whether a collaboration should proceed, interpret export classification, or replace ownership and end-use analysis. PEPs are a separate risk category, not sanctions designations. Escalation to legal or research security remains a human decision.