It’s easy to upgrade from the standard PEP and sanctions service to GBG Watchlist Screening with Dow Jones data, GBG will simply make a configuration change. This will not change the API structure but it will change some of the API responses.
Here is a table comparing the API responses.
Standard | Watchlist Dow Jones - no matches | Watchlist Dow Jones - match on PEP | Watchlist Dow Jones - match on Sanctions |
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In the standard watchlist, individual results are presented for each of the 11 lists (PEP, DFAT, OFAC, etc) irrespective of state One of two results are presented for state: NOT_FOUND_ON_LIST FOUND_ON_LIST | For the Dow Jones watchlist, if no matches are found, individual results with a state of NOT FOUND will be presented for:
| For the Dow Jones watchlist, if matches are found on the PEP watchlist or Extended PEP watchlist, a state of MATCH_REVIEW_REQUIRED will be displayed - no further information is displayed. | For the Dow Jones watchlist, if matches are found on a Sanction List: Actual name of the list is displayed State is MATCH_REVIEW_REQUIRED |
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