Alert · reviewed · open
Activity on an entity flagged by screening (PEP status no, high risk).
- Detector
- sanctions_or_pep
- Severity
- high
- Program
- Northwind Payroll (simulated)
- Subject
- entity enti_sim_nort_91eod4q93y
- Transfer
- acht_sim_nort_7wprqow83e6 · $2,139.50 · ach outgoing
- Skoor at alert
- 20 clear
- Hard signal
- no
- Policy
- policy-v1
- Opened
- 2026-09-17 19:31Z
- Closed
- —
- Decision clock
- none · due — no clock
- Escalated
- —
Draft narrative
What happened. Alert 0f30eb02-fea6-4f6c-ae46-00ed2b33f1cc fired on entity enti_sim_nort_91eod4q93y (Northwind Payroll program) because screening marked the entity high risk. The alert is tied to one ACH outgoing credit transfer (acht_sim_nort_7wprqow83e6) for $2,139.50, settled with no return code.
What the evidence shows. The alert score is 20, banded clear, with hard_signal false. The only contributing signal is entity.high_risk (weight 20). The entity record shows PEP status no, review reasons none, verification status VERIFIED, and last screened 2026-08-18, which is within a normal screening cycle. The transfer itself carries the same clear-band score (20) with no additional signals, settled status, and no return code, and its amount ($2,139.50) is small relative to the program's declared monthly volume ($2,500,000.00). There are no prior dispositions on this entity or alert.
What was checked. Reviewed the alert evidence and routing reason (detector always reviewed, not risk-driven routing). Reviewed the entity screening record for PEP and review-reason fields. Reviewed the transfer record for return code and status. Reviewed program KRIs: high_risk_entity_share (0.061, watch) and pep_flagged_entities (1/33, watch) are elevated but within a watch band, not breach. manual_review_aging_hours (1434.7 hours, breach) is a program-level metric not specific to this entity or transfer and has no direct evidentiary link to this alert's transaction.
What is recommended. Close this alert. The transfer is settled, carries no return code, and the entity is verified with no PEP flag and no review reasons. The high-risk flag alone, at clear band with no hard signal, does not indicate a condition requiring a person to act on this specific transfer. The program-level manual_review_aging_hours breach should be tracked separately as a program KRI issue, not as grounds to hold this transfer.
- Recommendation
- close
- Confidence
- 0.78
- Model
- claude-sonnet-5
- Drafted
- 2026-09-17 19:32Z
- Rationale
- Score 20, band clear, hard_signal false, single contributing signal is entity.high_risk with no corroborating signals.
- Entity is VERIFIED, PEP no, review reasons none, screened within the last month.
- Transfer is SETTLED with no return code; amount is a small fraction of declared program volume.
- Program KRIs show high_risk_entity_share and pep_flagged_entities at watch level, not breach, and are not specific to this entity or transfer.
- manual_review_aging_hours breach is a program-wide metric with no direct link to this alert's evidence and does not by itself justify holding funds already settled.
- No prior dispositions exist to suggest a recurring pattern for this entity.
Evidence
{
"n": 1296,
"band": "clear",
"skoor": 20,
"signals": [
{
"code": "entity.high_risk",
"detail": "entity marked high risk by screening",
"weight": 20
}
],
"routeReason": "detector always reviewed"
}
Skoor signals
| Signal | Weight | Hard | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| entity.high_risk | +20 | entity marked high risk by screening |
Decision
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Dispositions
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Actions
Freeze, request to program, and suspend need a second, distinct approver. Clear hold, cancel, and pause execute on the requester's approval. Executed through the bank's own API with the tenant's sandbox key; a dry run when there is none.
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