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#1930620 - 06/09/14 02:28 PM OFAC scan frequency
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For Community banks (versus multi-nationals: how often do you run your OFAC software against your account database? Once per month, weekly, every time there is an OFAC update?

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#1930622 - 06/09/14 02:28 PM Re: OFAC scan frequency Trees
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We run it nightly.
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#1930629 - 06/09/14 02:45 PM Re: OFAC scan frequency Trees
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We run nightly also.

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#1930661 - 06/09/14 03:38 PM Re: OFAC scan frequency Trees
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We run it weekly, and whenever the SDN is updated. We also do OFAC on account opening (Loans-Transunion;Deposits-FIS) so anything new is covered.

We used to do it nightly, but given the fact that we've never had a true positive the risk didn't seem to be there to have to run/check it daily, which I viewed as overkill.
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#1930677 - 06/09/14 04:18 PM Re: OFAC scan frequency Trees
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We run monthly.
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#1930681 - 06/09/14 04:28 PM Re: OFAC scan frequency Trees
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Ours runs nightly and also if the SDN list changes.
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#1930685 - 06/09/14 04:35 PM Re: OFAC scan frequency Trees
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Doug, do you also run it when account details change (name, address, related parties)?

Running "whenever the SDN changes" implies that you will run it on consecutive days, or even multiple times in a day (since both things have occurred.) The last time I calculated the mean time between list updates it was 3 days.

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#1930700 - 06/09/14 05:13 PM Re: OFAC scan frequency Trees
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Monthly and when SDN list changes.
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#1930843 - 06/09/14 08:27 PM Re: OFAC scan frequency Trees
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Whenever a new person or entity is added to the system, the CSR runs them through an OFAC check. The system is scrubbed whenever there is a change to the list.

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#1930884 - 06/09/14 09:32 PM Re: OFAC scan frequency NotDoneYet
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All new customer relationships are run nightly; entire customer database is scrubbed monthly and also whenever there are changes to SDN list.
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#1930888 - 06/09/14 09:50 PM Re: OFAC scan frequency Xian Ngyuen
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I would run it on consecutive days, or even multiple times per day, only because that's what we say in our policy. It is something I've considered changing.

We generally do NOT run it when account details change (other than the addition of a new owner).
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#1931117 - 06/10/14 06:06 PM Re: OFAC scan frequency Trees
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All new customer relationships are run nightly; entire customer database is scrubbed whenever there are changes to SDN list.

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#1931880 - 06/12/14 03:20 PM Re: OFAC scan frequency Trees
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New customers we check on account opening, the entire database is done every night.

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#1933305 - 06/17/14 06:52 PM Re: OFAC scan frequency Trees
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Trees-- your core may have a process.... you should check with them. My guess is that it is nightly and a full scan is done when OFAC is updated.
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#1933322 - 06/17/14 07:16 PM Re: OFAC scan frequency Trees
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Our entire data base is run nightly.
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#1933327 - 06/17/14 07:19 PM Re: OFAC scan frequency Trees
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Same as MBank, New customers checked at Account opening, Full Scan Nightly.
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#1933333 - 06/17/14 07:37 PM Re: OFAC scan frequency Trees
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Nightly, whole database monthly and also when there are changes to the SDN list and certain changes to customer data.

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