The Sanctions Risk Management Standard

The handbook
sanctions pros
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107+ use cases grounded in real OFAC enforcement actions. Four audience tracks. One practitioner who has lived every scenario in it.

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Screen This, Avoid That by Crystal Noe

The Sanctions Risk Management Standard.

107+
Use Cases
26+
Years Experience
4
Certification Tracks
300+
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Who It’s For

Built for every
role in the room.

Sanctions risk isn’t a compliance problem. It’s an engineering problem, a legal problem, an audit problem, and a board problem. This is the only resource designed for all of them.

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Compliance Officers
Program design, control logic, enforcement readiness, and the operational mechanics OFAC actually examines.
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Engineers & Data Scientists
Field-level screening logic, fuzzy match thresholds, API integration, and what happens when your system fails.
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Auditors & Examiners
Control coverage frameworks, testing procedures, and the root causes behind every major OFAC settlement.
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Legal Counsel
Enforcement action analysis, voluntary self-disclosure strategy, and the regulatory carve-outs that matter.
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Board & Leadership
Risk framing, program adequacy benchmarks, and what board-level oversight of sanctions actually requires.
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Founders & Vendors
How to build a defensible program before OFAC comes knocking — and what screening vendors won’t tell you.

The Ecosystem

One standard.
Four entry points.

The book is the foundation. Everything else extends it — into certification, self-assessment, and practice.

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Screen This, Avoid That
The practitioner’s handbook. 107+ use cases sourced from real OFAC enforcement actions. Written for compliance officers, engineers, auditors, and boards — not just lawyers. First of its kind.
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Certification Program
SRI Certification
Scenario-based assessments across four audience tracks: Compliance, Engineering, Audit, and Board. Unlike ACAMS multiple choice — these tests reflect the decisions you actually face in the field.
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Self-Assessment Tool
Sanctions Copilot
Map your program against 113 risk scenarios. Identify gaps before an examiner does. Built on the same framework as the book — without the guesswork.
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AI Product
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An AI trained on 26 years of sanctions expertise and the full content of the book. Practitioner-grade answers on demand. No vendor spin.
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Crystal Noe

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Crystal Noe
Founder & CEO, Sanctions Risk Institute · 26+ Years

Crystal Noe has spent 26+ years inside sanctions compliance at Tier-1 banks, Big Tech, fintech, and digital asset platforms. She built programs from scratch, fixed programs that were broken, and sat across the table from examiners who found what others missed.

This book — and the Institute behind it — exists because no resource like it did. Not a legal treatise. Not a vendor whitepaper. A practitioner’s handbook from someone who has lived every scenario in it.

Recognized by Innovative Finance as a Top Policy Maker & Regulatory Expert — Women in Fintech Power List
Speaker at TRM Block Conference on blockchain sanctions screening
26+ years across TradFi, CeFi, DeFi, and Big Tech sanctions programs — the full stack

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