Priced at zero, and it reports how old the list is.
Every party on the record checked against the United States consolidated screening list — 25,939 entries of free government data. The law requires the check, so CBMGO does not bill for it.
It reports what the list says, and when the list was last brought in.
Two dates, not one. When the check ran, and how old the data was when it ran. Only the first of those is usually on screen anywhere, and the second is the one that decides whether the check meant anything.
Why it is free
The check is required by law and the list is public government data that costs nothing to obtain. Charging a monthly fee to compare a name against a file anyone can download is charging for someone else’s work. So it has a line on the price page, and the line says $0.
The decision is kept
Whatever a person decides about a hit is recorded with the check, so the file can answer the question that gets asked much later: not only what the software found, but what a human being concluded and when.
The age of the check and the age of the list are different questions.
A check run yesterday against a list loaded six months ago passes every inspection an office will ever face, and has confirmed nothing at all.
No match is not clear
A company can be half owned by a listed party and not itself appear anywhere on the list. Under the OFAC 50 per cent rule that company is treated as blocked all the same. The list says nothing about ownership, so a screen that turns no match into safe is inventing a conclusion the data does not support.
So the wording on the screen is the wording of the result. No match. Four parties, one list, one date, and no adjectives added on the way out.
One hit, and a person looks
There is no confidence score that quietly dismisses a near-match, and no threshold under which the system decides on its own. A single hit goes in front of somebody, every time, and what they decide is written down.
Four things it will not do.
The list’s date in an existing file is a fair question for the call.
Screening is its own switch inside ABI and it is priced at $0. A consignee screened before can be run again during the call, with both dates on the screen.