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Bank-to-bank sanctions clearance without waiting days for an RFI answer

Ask the counterparty directly with Salv Bridge, inside your own workflow, and settle the match while your customer is still on the line.

How it works

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Bank-to-bank sanctions clearance means settling a potential sanctions match on a payment with the identifying details only the other institution holds, such as a date of birth, address or registration number.

Send a structured request straight to the institution that holds those details with Salv Bridge, which has handled 200,000+ joint screening queries. Raise it automatically from the match if you choose, and get the answer back in the same thread, not days later by email.

Your customer is waiting while the correspondent bank RFI sits in an inbox

A payment is held on a name match at nine. The customer phones before ten: their supplier expects the money today. The answer sits with an institution you can't hurry, because the AML request for information (RFI) process runs by email or SWIFT to a shared inbox, answered the next day, the one after, or after the weekend.

Your own work is done. All that's missing is a line of detail from somebody else.

How bank-to-bank sanctions clearance works

Open an investigation in the Sanctions hit category, fill in the fields that identify the party, and turn on only the data points you need. It goes to the institution on the other side of the payment, in a category you've agreed with them.

The details come from that institution, not your customer, so there's no going back to them for documents. Bridge carries the request and the answer; your own system holds, releases or rejects the payment.

The answer clears the next name match too

Clear the same match once. Alongside Salv Screening, an answer received through Bridge becomes the clearance condition when that account pays again, so the match doesn't come back as a fresh alert.

See how two banks clear a sanctions match together

Joint AML investigations across several institutions

Not every AML question is one payment between two institutions. Work the same case with several institutions, each in its own conversation with you, and see connections your own casework can't. At onboarding, you can also check whether a prospective customer was reported as offboarded elsewhere, in the interface or by API.

Governed by design: you agree what can be asked, and what is kept

Agree with each institution which categories you exchange in, and templates keep each request to the fields it needs. Messages are encrypted in the user's browser, so only the institutions in that conversation can read them. An audit log records who did what, and you set how long data is kept. The EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR) Article 75 applies from 10 July 2027 and sets a framework for information-sharing partnerships; Bridge has run this way since 2021.

A scam payment that has already left is a different problem on a different clock. Here nothing has moved, and the person waiting is your own customer.

AML tools that work together

  • Intelligence sharing
    The secure network where fraud, AML and sanctions teams settle a case directly with other institutions. Send structured requests, answered in minutes, under rules your network agrees.
  • Screening
    Screen customers and payments against sanctions, PEP and adverse-media lists, with matching you configure and lists Salv keeps current.
  • Alert and case management
    When an investigation grows, it becomes a case. Bring the related alerts, customers and payments together and work it from one place as a team.
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Common questions

By asking the institution that holds the missing detail, instead of emailing and waiting. A structured request goes to that counterparty from your own workflow, and the answer comes back in the same thread, so the payment isn't parked for days.

A request for information sent to another institution to settle a possible sanctions match. Usually it asks for the identifying details — a date of birth, an address, a registration number — that confirm whether the party on the payment is the party on the list.

Only the fields you turn on, in a category you've agreed with that institution. Messages are encrypted in the user's browser, and an audit log records the exchange.

Yes. A name match in your screening can raise a standard RFI to the counterparty by API, and the answer returns to the same investigation.