OFAC Sanctions Alerts
Watch the public SDN and OFAC notices pages. This is not your screening vendor.
OFAC sanctions alerts watch the SDN list and related notices for names in your screening set.
That sentence is the search. The product that must remain the system of record is still your screening vendor. AyeWatch is not a sanctions screening vendor. It has no SDN API. It does not clear customers, wire payments, or write an audit log that a bank examiner will accept.
What it can do is watch the public OFAC notices page and the SDN list page you can open in a browser. When OFAC posts an update that mentions names or programs you care about, you get a summary. Your screening tool still does the match against the file.
Watch the public notices
Paste the OFAC recent-actions URL or the SDN list page Treasury publishes. Write the rule with the programs and names you actually screen. Tell me when a new notice, FAQ, or list update posts for those programs. Ignore unrelated press.
This sits next to regulatory monitoring for compliance teams, not inside your KYC vendor. If Congress is moving a sanctions bill, that is a separate Congress.gov watch. See legislative policy monitoring.
Keep screening where it belongs
Hits, false positives, and customer blocks stay in the system of record. AyeWatch will not batch-screen a CSV. It will not fuzzy-match aliases. It will not replace Dow Jones, World-Check, or whatever you already bought. It is an early ping that the public list page moved, so you go run the real job.
AyeWatch for legal and templates are fine for the watch. Free Preview is six lifetime runs across three topics. Pro is $9/mo. Daily is the honest cadence. List updates are not a millisecond race for most mid-market teams.
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If someone asks whether AyeWatch is your OFAC control, the answer is no. It is a page monitor on Treasury's public site. Use it so the team is not learning about a notice from Twitter. Keep the vendor that actually screens.
Start with the recent-actions URL. If the first ping names a program you screen, add the SDN page. Do not point it at a random news topic called "sanctions" or you will recreate alert fatigue.