Priya Nallan, Head of Product Management at LSEG Risk Intelligence, comments on today’s changes to the UK Sanctions List:
“The UK’s move to publish a single designations list marks a step toward greater clarity and consistency, particularly for firms operating across multiple jurisdictions. Compliance teams must ensure their systems can reconcile the UK’s designations as published on the UK Sanctions List with other regimes such as the US’s OFAC - especially where entities are co‑listed under narcotics trafficking, transnational crime, or proliferation‑related sanctions.
“This presents an opportunity to reassess sanctions workflows and exposure analysis holistically. As regulatory expectations rise globally, firms must go beyond simple list matching and build screening programmes capable of detecting indirect risk, hidden ownership structures, and common and shifting designations across all relevant jurisdictions.
“We have already ensured our World‑Check data and screening software is ready to support this transition.”
