A Jersey trust and wealth management firm running TWMS — the predecessor to NavOne — with a KYC screening process that matched client names against sanctions and PEP lists sequentially. Full screening runs took several hours, constraining how frequently screening could be performed.
Phonetic matching algorithms and SQL CLR extensions were implemented to handle name variations, transliterations, and partial matches — dramatically reducing false positives while cutting processing time by 20×. Full screening runs moved from weekly to daily cycles, materially improving the firm's compliance posture without adding headcount.