Can I adjust the Watchlist matching threshold?

Overview

The parameters of the Watchlist tolerance or matching threshold can be adjusted to either Low, Medium, or High for entity and individual names in the dashboard settings:

• Low: This parameter allows for an edit distance of zero, which will be a strict match to the exact name of a given entity/individual in the watchlist to produce a hit. An exact match is defined as when any of those business and/or people names (or an alias of each name) contain words that are present in any of the names of an entity found in any of the watchlists.
• Medium: This parameter allows for an edit distance of one, which means a watchlist hit will be surfaced if the search term differs from a name of a given entity in the watchlist by one character/letter.
• High: This parameter will be the most risk-averse option, however, this setting will likely result in more false positives by relaxing the fuzzy matching parameters.

In order to adjust the settings, go to the dashboard Settings > Screenings > Watchlist and Enhanced Screenings > Name Fuziness