Sanctions Screening for Banks: A Crypto Compliance Guide for 2026
How to detect wallet, counterparty, and transaction exposure with clear evidence.
Banks with digital-asset exposure — through custody partners, on-ramps, or corporate clients paying suppliers in stablecoins — now need a screening program that mirrors their fiat sanctions controls.
The three questions any policy must answer are: who owns this wallet, where did the funds come from, and where are they going. The right analytics stack should provide attribution data, source-and-use-of-funds reports, and an auditable risk score for every counterparty.
We recommend integrating screening at three checkpoints: onboarding (KYB on the counterparty entity), pre-transaction (KYT on the specific address), and periodic review (monitoring lists for changes in risk over time).
Global Ledger's database of 700 million attributed addresses, updated daily, powers each checkpoint and returns a GL Score in an average of 500 ms.