SAN008 · Sanctions

High Risk Jurisdictions

High-Risk-Jurisdiction exposure measures how much of an entity's footprint — where it is registered and operates, the corridors it trades, who owns it, who it deals with — touches sanctioned, embargoed or high-risk jurisdictions. Here the jurisdiction is not an aggravating detail behind another finding; it *is* the finding.

Accordingly the jurisdiction-footprint component carries the largest weight. An entity concentrated across sanctioned and high-risk jurisdictions is exposed even where no single transaction is independently remarkable.

Risk indicators

Jurisdiction-Footprint

• Two or more sanctioned jurisdictions in the footprint
• One sanctioned jurisdiction alongside a high-risk jurisdiction
• Three or more high-risk jurisdictions

Trade

• Trade with a sanctioned jurisdiction
• High-risk trade corridor

Ownership

• Owner designated, or registered in a sanctioned / high-risk jurisdiction

Counterparty

• Counterparty sanctions exposure or adverse media

Investigation actions

1. Resolve the entity, owner and counterparty.
2. Classify each footprint jurisdiction as sanctioned / high-risk; count each.
3. Grade the jurisdiction footprint from those counts.
4. Score trade exposure (sanctioned trade / high-risk corridor).
5. Score the ownership link and counterparty exposure.
6. Aggregate; escalate at or above the threshold.

Detection logic

1. Resolve the entity, owner and counterparty. 2. Classify each footprint jurisdiction as sanctioned / high-risk; count each. 3. Grade the jurisdiction footprint from those counts. 4. Score trade exposure (sanctioned trade / high-risk corridor). 5. Score the ownership link and counterparty exposure. 6. Aggregate; escalate at or above the threshold.

Related typologies

Curated from fc-05-sanctions-exposure-analytics-toolkit/typologies/SAN008_High_Risk_Jurisdictions.md