How to run a screening

Screening a client is the core of your AML obligations. Here is how to do it efficiently in ClearAML.

1. Navigate to the Client: Open the client's profile from the Clients list.
2. Initiate Screening: Click the "Run Screening" button in the Action Strip on the right side of the screen.
3. Confirm Details: Ensure the client's full legal name, Date of Birth, and known addresses are accurate. The better the input data, the fewer false positives you will receive.
4. Review Results: The system will scan global PEP, Sanctions, and Adverse Media databases. Results usually appear within seconds.
5. Resolve Matches: If matches are found, you must review them. If it's a false positive, mark it as "Cleared" and provide a brief reason. If it's a true match, you will be prompted to escalate the client's risk rating.
6. Provider-cleared hits: Hits the screening provider scores below its 93% identity-match threshold are tagged false positive at source. They stay on the screening record (greyed, marked "Provider-cleared") for audit purposes but do not flag the client or raise an alert. Sanctions-list hits are always surfaced for review regardless of score.
7. Ongoing monitoring and re-screens: Monitored clients are re-checked on every cycle and the provider re-sends every hit each time. If a cycle — or any later re-screen, manual or at onboarding — returns only hits you have already reviewed and accepted, that decision is carried forward automatically (shown as "carried forward" on the screening) — no alert, no new decision. A hit that was not part of your earlier review, or that has since appeared on a list it was not on when you accepted it (a sanctions listing, for example), always asks for a decision. Hits you accepted before are labelled "Accepted" in the matches table so you can go straight to what is new.
8. Download the results: To keep your own record of a screening, use "Download PDF" at the top right of the Screening "View Results" window (the latest screening of each screened party) or the download icon on a row of Screening History (that one screening). A related party's $1 screen downloads the same way, from the download icon on its row of the Directors / UBOs tab. The PDF lists every match with its details — dates of birth, countries, aliases, list entries and sources — including provider-cleared hits, together with the decision and rationale you recorded. The download is stamped with your name and logged in the client's Activity tab. Read Only and Casual Staff seats cannot download it.