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_bz2yjeqd3ku · $1,785.53 · ach outgoing
- Skoor at alert
- 20 clear
- Hard signal
- no
- Policy
- policy-v1
- Opened
- 2026-09-17 19:32Z
- Closed
- —
- Decision clock
- none · due — no clock
- Escalated
- —
Draft narrative
What happened. An alert fired on entity enti_sim_nort_91eod4q93y because screening marked it high risk. The detector routes all such entities to review regardless of score. The alert references a settled outgoing ACH debit of $1785.53 from the Northwind Payroll program dated 2026-09-14.
What the evidence shows. The entity is a verified US business with pep status no and no review reasons noted; last screened 2026-08-18. The only signal present is entity.high_risk (+20 weight), producing a skoor of 20, which falls in the clear band. Hard signal is false. The transfer itself carries the same clear-band skoor of 20, settled with no return code, to a counterparty whose country is unknown. Program-level KRIs show high_risk_entity_share at 0.0606 (watch, n=33), pep_flagged_entities at 1 (watch, n=33), manual_review_aging_hours at 1434.69 (breach, n=12), and hold_aging_hours at 518.29 (watch, n=1). Other KRIs (return rates, sanctioned_country_transfers, reserve_coverage_ratio, verification_denial_rate) are within ok range.
What was checked. Reviewed the alert's signal composition and score band, the entity's verification and PEP status, the transfer's status and return code, the counterparty country field, and the program-level KRI panel including manual review aging and high-risk entity share. No prior dispositions exist for this alert.
What is recommended. The transfer already settled, so no funds are held pending this alert; it is not a case where 'release' applies. The entity-level evidence (verified, not PEP, no review reasons, clear band, no hard signal) does not on its own require a person to intervene on this specific alert. However, manual_review_aging_hours is in breach and high_risk_entity_share and pep_flagged_entities are at watch, which point to a broader program-level pattern beyond this single alert. This alert can be closed on its own facts, but the KRI breach warrants separate escalation of the review-aging backlog at the program level, not through this alert.
- Recommendation
- close
- Confidence
- 0.62
- Model
- claude-sonnet-5
- Drafted
- 2026-09-17 19:32Z
- Rationale
- Skoor is 20, clear band, hard_signal false, single low-weight signal (entity.high_risk +20).
- Entity is VERIFIED, pep no, review reasons none, screened within the last month.
- Transfer is SETTLED with return code none; no sanctioned-country or fraud signal on the transfer.
- Counterparty country is unknown, which is a data gap but not itself a flagged risk signal in the evidence provided.
- Program KRI manual_review_aging_hours is in breach (1434.69h, n=12) and high_risk_entity_share/pep_flagged_entities are at watch, but these are program-level metrics, not specific to this alert's underlying transfer or entity conduct.
- No prior dispositions exist to indicate repeat pattern on this specific entity.
Evidence
{
"n": 1403,
"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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