Two mandatory lists: the Bank of Mauritius sanctions guidance, and what it asks of you
The Bank of Mauritius issued updated guidance in August 2026 on obligations under the UN (Financial Prohibitions, Arms Embargo and Travel Ban) Sanctions Act 2019.
Category: Compliance
Category: Compliance
From the annual review to perpetual monitoring
Most compliance frameworks still carry a dangerous assumption baked in from the paper era: that a customer screened clean at onboarding stays clean until their next periodic review — one, three, sometimes four years later.
Own your compliance data: the case for in-country screening
Ask a compliance team where their customers' most sensitive data lives, and increasingly the honest answer is: "in a vendor's cloud, in another country." Names, national IDs, dates of birth, risk ratings, adverse findings — the entire due-diligence file —…
Beyond the watchlist: why a data feed isn’t a compliance programme
For twenty years, "buying compliance" has meant buying a list. A subscription to a premium watchlist and PEP database, billed per record or per search, and the quiet assumption that a name-check against it is due diligence.
Start with a compliance health check.
A working session with your compliance team, then a walkthrough against your own risk appetite: the lifecycle end to end, scoring weights set to your policy, and a review of the audit trail the system produces.