27/08/2026
Sanctions Risk Assessments are now a regulatory requirement in Malta.
The Sanctions Monitoring Board’s recently issued guidance further reinforces the need for organisations to adopt a risk-based and proportionate approach to sanctions compliance. The guidance is available here: https://lnkd.in/eJ6K4MTx
For organisations within scope, sanctions compliance is no longer limited to screening names against sanctions lists.
Organisations are expected to understand and assess their exposure to:
🔹 Sanctions violations
🔹 Sanctions circumvention
🔹 Proliferation financing
A Sanctions Risk Assessment should consider clients, geographical exposure, products and services, transactions, and delivery channels — and it should be properly documented, maintained and kept up to date.
At Compliance 360, we have developed a structured Sanctions Risk Assessment to help organisations:
✅ Identify inherent sanctions exposure
✅ Assess sanctions circumvention and proliferation financing risks
✅ Evaluate the effectiveness of existing controls
✅ Determine residual risk
✅ Identify areas requiring remediation
✅ Produce a clear, management-ready assessment
Sanctions screening is only one part of an effective sanctions framework.
The real question is: do you understand your organisation’s sanctions exposure?
📊 Compliance 360 Sanctions Risk Assessment
Understand the risk.
Test the controls.
Evidence compliance.
👉 Get in touch with Compliance 360 to learn how we can support your organisation.