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If a match is made against a PEP and/or a Sanction-list, match indicators are also returned, showing how certain the data provider is that it is an actual match, and not a a false positive (A match produced by the system that, following subsequent investigation, turns out to be another person). There is an indicator; “NameMatchValue” that is related to the name similarity in your query, and if there is a name match (either an exactly name match or partially the same as an result as a fuzzy match settings in your query) you will also have an indicator telling you the similarity of the Date of birth in your query related to the Date of Birth information listed on the person; “Matchindicator Date of Birth match”
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Be aware of the quality difference in the listings in in sanctions list and the and the pep list. In general, a hit against sanction lists requires some more attention around the background of the math indicators than a hit against the pep_edge list. For For PEP-matches a a match is almost always a match against both name and complete date of birth (since the pep list used in BankID AML are close to 100% covered by date of birth for the listed persons) and there is only only one registrated registrated date of birth per listed person in the PEP list.
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