Screen both sides of your marketplace.

Risk-based screening is sized to each side, so both buyers and sellers are screened at the level of scrutiny their risk actually warrants, rather than applying one uniform standard to both sides of a transaction that typically carry meaningfully different risk profiles. Sellers on most marketplaces generally warrant closer scrutiny than buyers, since sellers are the party receiving funds and the party that marketplace trust and safety obligations most directly depend on, while buyers typically present lower risk and benefit more from frictionless onboarding to keep signup conversion high. Sizing screening to each side rather than treating buyer and seller onboarding identically is what allows a marketplace to keep friction low where it can afford to and scrutiny high where it actually needs to, rather than picking one uniform level that is either too heavy for buyers or too light for sellers.

Yes. Seller businesses and their beneficial owners are screened together as one connected entity, so exposure that sits with the people who own and control a seller, rather than with the storefront name itself, is visible in a single record. A seller entity can look entirely clean on paper while an owner behind it carries sanctions, PEP or adverse-media exposure, including ownership exposure created by the 50% Rule several layers up a holding structure. Screening the connected structure rather than the storefront name alone is what surfaces that risk before the seller starts receiving funds through the platform. Entity resolution also clears duplicate matches across the structure, so a single owner connected to several seller entities is worked as one case rather than generating a separate redundant alert for every storefront they touch.

Yes. Higher-risk sellers and parties can be screened for sanctions and adverse media at onboarding and on an ongoing basis, covering the financial-crime exposure a marketplace can carry when a seller processes payments or moves funds through the platform. Sellers warrant this focus more than buyers because sellers are typically the party receiving and moving money on a marketplace, which is where sanctions and financial-crime exposure concentrates, whereas buyer-side risk is more often about payment disputes than sanctions exposure directly. Applying sanctions and adverse-media screening selectively to higher-risk sellers, rather than uniformly to every user regardless of role, keeps overall marketplace onboarding friction low while still covering the exposure that actually matters most.