Our own research with customers shows that a typical sanctions alert review analyst can work 200–300 alerts per day at high levels of quality. When alert volumes spike, such as when the Russia invasion of Ukraine started, an individual analyst would need to work upwards of 500–800 alerts per day. Handling that many alerts per day is not sustainable for any analyst. Yet, to staff up and meet the new volume levels would require an FI to increase analyst head count by approximately 100-200%. That’s prohibitively expensive.
