Compliance

Screening a counterparty by name

The EU, the United Kingdom and the UN publish their restrictive measures as names — people, companies, vessels — and only rarely with a wallet address (the UN list publishes none; the UK list gives a few, in the text of six designations, and the address screen reads those). An address-based tool therefore cannot answer the question a European compliance team actually has about a counterparty: is this company, as written on the invoice, a listed subject? ChainHint holds those list subjects and screens names against them directly.

The check runs from your dashboard once you are signed in. An exact match — the name you entered, compared as a string, before any similarity logic — is reported first and on its own, with the authority, the record number on that list, the version of the list the record comes from, and a link to the authority's own published file. Names that merely share words with yours are shown separately and labelled as needing review by a person; they are candidates, never a result. Shared words alone are not evidence of anything, and treating them as evidence is how “External AML Registry” once became “External Construction Bureau” in our own data.

The EU, the UK and the UN publish no wallet addresses with these measures — only names. An address-based check cannot answer this question; this is why the name check exists.

The lists we screen against

These figures are read from the database — the number of subjects, the version of each list we hold, and when we last fetched it. None of it is written into the text, so it cannot quietly go stale. The table is built with the figures of the day the site was published and refreshes itself against the database as this page loads; until it does, it prints the date of the ones you are seeing.

This check helps you meet your own screening obligations. It does not discharge them, and it is not legal advice: the decision, the record and the filing stay yours.

Compliance PDF export

Every incident can be exported as a compliance-ready PDF report containing the full fund trace, entity attribution, risk assessment, and a legal-grade evidence declaration.

Standard vs Compliance PDF

The Compliance PDF is available via the Compliance Copy button on the incident detail page (Investigator and Agency plans). It includes verified explorer links for all 8 supported EVM chains, plus Tron, Solana, Bitcoin, and TON.