// Enhanced Layer 2 PEP Data
From PEP Alerts to
PEP
Answers.
Most screening systems can tell you when a name may match a politically exposed person. That is only the first step.
Yanez Enhanced Layer 2 PEP Data helps compliance teams answer those questions with deeper identity context, jurisdiction-specific intelligence, risk-tiered classification, and audit-ready rationale. It is built to sit on top of your existing screening workflow, not replace it.
Your current provider generates the alert.
Yanez helps make the decision defensible.
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Is it the right person?
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Are they still politically exposed?
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Does the role qualify in that jurisdiction?
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Is the risk national, regional, municipal, or indirect?
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Is the person a family member or close associate?
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Can the decision be explained later?
PEP Screening Is a
Context Problem.
PEP alerts are often treated like sanctions alerts, but they are fundamentally different.
Sanctions screening is usually about whether a person or entity appears on a restricted list.
PEP screening requires interpretation.
Political exposure depends on role, seniority, authority, jurisdiction, relationship, and timing. A mayor in one country may carry a very different risk profile than a mayor in another. Former officials may be treated differently depending on local rules. Family members and close associates may require separate consideration. Municipal thresholds, cooling-off periods, and role definitions can vary widely.
When that context is missing, every alert becomes a manual research project.
Analysts spend time searching public sources, comparing titles, interpreting rules, and documenting decisions that may still be difficult to explain during audits or exams.
What Yanez Adds
Jurisdiction-Specific PEP Intelligence
Yanez evaluates PEP exposure through local political structures, country-specific definitions, role authority, and treatment of former officials, relatives, and close associates.
Risk-Tiered Classification
Not every PEP carries the same level of risk. Yanez helps distinguish senior national leadership, cabinet-level officials, regulators, judicial leaders, military officials, ambassadors, regional officials, municipal leaders, and related parties.
Audit-Ready Rationale
Every decision should be explainable. Yanez provides clear reasoning and source-backed support so teams can document why a match was confirmed, cleared, or assigned a specific risk level.
Enhanced Entity Resolution
Yanez helps separate true matches from false positives by enriching the alert with relevant identity attributes, role history, public-source context, and supporting evidence.
Role and Influence Context
Yanez looks beyond title alone, considering factors such as budget authority, regulatory power, procurement influence, financial oversight, geographic scope, and cross-border policy relevance.
Benchmarked Against Leading Providers
Internal benchmarking against leading providers shows that Yanez strengthens the PEP decision layer across key attributes such as PEP category, risk level, position history, PEP status, nationality, place of birth, family and associate context, and other supporting profile details.
The goal is not simply to add another list.
The goal is to make PEP alerts more useful, more complete, and more decision-ready.
Screening
Your System Flags the Match
A potential PEP alert is generated through your existing screening workflow.
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Context
Yanez Adds Layer 2 Intelligence
Yanez enriches the alert with deeper identity context, jurisdictional analysis, role-based risk indicators, and public-source support.
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Decisioning
The Alert Becomes a Decision
Your team receives a clearer determination: true PEP, false positive, risk level, rationale, and evidence.
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Built for
Real
Compliance Teams
PEP screening should not require analysts to start from scratch every time an alert appears.
Yanez gives teams the missing layer between “possible match” and “defensible decision.”
Because your screening system tells you when to look. Yanez helps you know what to do next.
Less repetitive research.
Fewer unnecessary reviews.
Clearer risk decisions.
Stronger audit documentation.
