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          <title><![CDATA[Enforcement Breakdown: Pegasus Worldwide Logistics and a Supplier That Changed Its Name]]></title>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
          <description><![CDATA[A $5,950 machine, a supplier renamed after its designation, and a phone number that never changed. What OFAC's settlement with a dozen-person forwarder says about when to screen, what to screen, and how to answer a subpoena.]]></description>
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          <title><![CDATA[Enforcement Breakdown: Fracht FWO and an Unscreened Charter Flight]]></title>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
          <description><![CDATA[An urgent air charter, a carrier owned by a blocked Venezuelan airline, and an aircraft OFAC had listed under its old registration. What the Fracht FWO settlement shows about screening under time pressure.]]></description>
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          <title><![CDATA[Build vs Buy Sanctions Screening: An Engineering Decision Framework]]></title>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
          <description><![CDATA[Should you build watchlist screening in-house or buy a screening API? A framework covering list ingestion, fuzzy matching, audit evidence, and the true cost of each path.]]></description>
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          <title><![CDATA[Sanctions Screening Glossary: 30 Terms Every Compliance Team Should Know]]></title>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
          <description><![CDATA[Plain-language definitions for SDN lists, the OFAC 50 Percent Rule, denied vs restricted parties, UBO, fuzzy matching, and 25 more terms your auditors expect you to know.]]></description>
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          <title><![CDATA[Sanctions Screening Software Buyer's Guide: 12 Criteria That Actually Matter]]></title>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
          <description><![CDATA[Evaluating sanctions screening vendors? Twelve concrete criteria (list freshness, match evidence, ownership graphs, audit artifacts) plus the questions that expose weak products in a demo.]]></description>
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          <title><![CDATA[Real-Time vs. Batch Sanctions Screening: API Architecture Tradeoffs for Compliance Engineering Teams]]></title>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
          <description><![CDATA[Real-time and batch screening solve different problems, not the same problem at different speeds. A practical framework for deciding which pattern, or which combination, your architecture actually needs.]]></description>
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          <title><![CDATA[Deemed Exports and the BIS Military End-User Rule: What Actually Counts as a "Deemed Export"]]></title>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
          <description><![CDATA[A foreign national employee reading controlled source code in your own office can be a deemed export under the EAR. And the Military End-User rule has two separate tracks, and only one of them shows up on a screening list.]]></description>
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          <title><![CDATA[Denied Party Screening vs. Restricted Party Screening vs. Sanctions Screening: What's Actually Different]]></title>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
          <description><![CDATA[Compliance vendors use these three terms interchangeably, but they map to different legal authorities, different government lists, and different trigger conditions. Here's the distinction that actually matters.]]></description>
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          <title><![CDATA[What Do Trade Sanctions Actually Mean? A Beginner’s Guide]]></title>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
          <description><![CDATA[A plain-English guide to trade sanctions: what they restrict, how primary vs. secondary sanctions work, legal obligations for businesses, and key compliance essentials.]]></description>
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          <title><![CDATA[OFAC 50 Percent Rule: A Practical Compliance Guide]]></title>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
          <description><![CDATA[How the OFAC 50 Percent Rule works, how to add up direct and indirect ownership by blocked persons, and why a clean name check does not clear an entity that is blocked through its owners.]]></description>
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          <title><![CDATA[Fuzzy Name Matching for Sanctions Screening: How the Architecture Fits Together]]></title>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
          <description><![CDATA[How a sanctions screening engine turns a messy input name into a ranked list of candidate matches: normalization, transliteration, candidate retrieval, scoring, and why recall usually matters more than raw speed.]]></description>
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