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Update URL for OFAC Search Explanation
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adamdecaf authored Sep 14, 2023
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- Manual overrides to mark an OFAC `Company` or `Customer` as `unsafe` (blocked) or `exception` (never blocked).
- Libraries for OFAC, CSL, and BIS DPL data to download and parse their custom files

Searching across all sanction lists Watchman uses the [Jaro–Winkler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaro%E2%80%93Winkler_distance) algorithm to score the probability of each search query matching a list entry. This follows after what the [US Treasury OFAC Search](https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/faqs/topic/1636) uses and what is [recommended in academic literature](https://www.wseas.org/multimedia/journals/computers/2015/a965705-699.pdf).
Searching across all sanction lists Watchman uses the [Jaro–Winkler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaro%E2%80%93Winkler_distance) algorithm to score the probability of each search query matching a list entry. This follows after what the [US Treasury OFAC Search](https://ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/892) uses and what is [recommended in academic literature](https://www.wseas.org/multimedia/journals/computers/2015/a965705-699.pdf).

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