# Payment Screening Block sanctioned activity, keep payments flowing

Get greater precision and lower false positives with real-time, AI-powered payment screening technology from Hawk.

## Product Highlights Reduce friction for good customers without letting a sanctioned payment through

Real time screening

Screen every transaction instantly (150 ms avg.) across all payment rails with Hawks’ rail-agnostic API

Fine-grain fuzzy matching

Catch sanctioned entities with precision, screening any payment field with custom weighting, rule-by-rule

Past decision recall

Don’t review unchanged hits twice—remember past analyst decisions so alerts are only generated when entity or list data changes

## Efficient payment screening Comply effortlessly at scale

Scale your volumes without compromising on compliance by providing your organization with the tools to pinpoint sanctions hits efficiently.

- Transaction screening at scale
- Coverage for any payment rail, through one API
- Integration with global sanctions lists
- Easy list management with ability to create dynamic, tailored sublists
- Payment interdiction
- Self-serve fuzzy matching configuration and tuning
- Click-of-a-button hit dispositioning
- Automated audit trail
- Production sandbox testing

## The Hawk Difference Discover how Hawk raises the bar for efficient payment screening

### The Traditional Way

- Payments blocked unnecessarily
- Generic algorithm, not purpose-built with transaction screening in mind
- Slow processing and poor scalability
- Costly maintenance with individually mapped connections to each payment rail
- One-size-fits-all approach that doesn’t reflect local regulations
- Hardcoded rules, managed by vendor support team
- Outdated user interface requiring many clicks and one-hit-at-a-time reviews

### The Hawk Way

- **Friction-right controls** with low false positives
- **Proprietary fuzzy matching algorithm** with granular, rule-specific tuning settings
- **150 ms avg. response time** at scale
- **Smooth maintenance** thanks to uniform payment rail mapping via single API
- **Multi-tenant structure** that supports multiple regional regulations
- **Self-serve model configuration** and sandbox testing
- Simplified, **unified view** of all sanctions hits

## See real-time screening in action today

## Awards & Recognition Leading the industry forward

Learn how Hawk's AI-fueled technology is driving the future of AML & CFT, according to software analysts and industry experts.

## Use cases

### All bases, covered

Comply with every sanction and restriction in real time

- Sanctions
- Embargos
- Dual-Use Goods

### Sanctions

Prevent sanctioned individuals, entities, and sectors from using your services with automated third-party sanctions lists updates.

### Embargos

Halt transactions with embargoed countries with geolocation transaction blocking and country-specific rules.

### Dual-Use Goods

Stop payments for controlled goods by monitoring for risky words in transaction fields.

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