## Product tiers

### Watchlist Standard

- Covers ~50–60 core sanctions and enforcement lists
  - Includes support for **custom watchlists**  
⭐ Best for domestic or single-region compliance needs

### Watchlist Plus

- Includes all Standard coverage plus ~1,400+ extra global sanctions/enforcement sources
  - 2,000,000+ PEP records  
🌍 Best for businesses with multi-country operations

### Watchlist Premier

- Includes all Plus plus 10M+ adverse media articles
  - 40+ additional lists, state-owned entity data, 230+ language coverage  
🏛️ Best for global, highly regulated organizations

## Watchlist categories

### Sanctions & enforcement

⏱️ **Refresh rate:** Every 15 minutes  
🌍 **Coverage:** Global

Socure supports **1,400+ sanctions and enforcement lists** worldwide. These help teams comply with regulatory requirements by screening individuals and businesses against global authorities such as OFAC, UN, EU, and others.

### Politically exposed persons (PEP)

⏱️ **Refresh rate:** Every 24 hours  
🌍 **Coverage:** Global

Our PEP database contains **2 million global profiles**. Customers can choose which PEP classes to include, based on risk tolerance and compliance obligations.

**PEP classes (1–4):**

- **Class 1** – Heads of State, US Congress, etc.
- **Class 2** – Senior officials of the military, judiciary, etc.
- **Class 3** – Senior management & board of state-owned enterprises, etc.
- **Class 4** – Mayor and local county, city, and district assembly members

### Adverse media

⏱️ **Refresh rate:** Every 24 hours  
🌍 **Coverage:** Global

Adverse media monitoring scans **100,000+ news sources** in their original languages. Categories such as fraud, corruption, and terrorism are aligned to **FATF predicate offences**, helping compliance teams detect reputational and legal risks early.

### Custom watchlists `coming soon`

🌍 **Coverage:** Organization-defined

Screen against **proprietary or internal lists** using the same matching and monitoring capabilities. This supports tailored risk controls for businesses with unique compliance needs.

## Performance metrics

The model supports multiple layers of matching — exact, fuzzy, phonetic, rule-based, and ML-driven (LSTM) — to maximize detection accuracy across names, formats, and languages.

- **API match times:** Near real-time
- **Monitoring alerts:** Sent immediately after source updates are processed
- **Quarterly uptime:** 99.99%

## What to know before you build

- **PEP profiles** may include placeholder URLs if the original government source has been removed or expired. The `source_url` field may be present, but the link may not resolve. This does not affect the validity of the match.
- **Source data refresh rates** depend on the origin — some lists update every 15 minutes, others daily and, others less frequently. Socure handles ingestion and versioning, but update latency can vary by jurisdiction.
- The **API returns candidate matches** based on fuzzy and exact logic. You’ll need to build a **review layer** on top of these responses to confirm if a match is a true positive.
- **Entities on your accept list** are suppressed from alerting, unless a material change is detected (e.g., a new DOB or alias that increases identity confidence).
- If an entity **moves from one list to another** (e.g., PEP → sanctions), it may appear as a new match due to different context or risk classification.
- **Sandbox calls** return mock data and do not access live watchlist sources. Use sandbox for request validation and error handling — not for testing real match behavior.

Updated about 1 month ago