So, remember Mr. Watchlist?

First, a confession: when I stopped posting there, I didn’t hold onto the domain name and, as is typically the case, someone swooped in and is holding it hostage.

But, perhaps more importantly, MrWarchlist.com was a little too broad. Sanctions has always been my first love, so it only makes sense that, when I recently decided I wanted to blog again, it was only natural to cut out that which did not spark joy. So, goodbye to AML stuff, anti-bribery and corruption stuff, unauthorized firm stuff…

Now, will this be different in other ways? Yeah – I want to leverage some of the AI tools to pull out some insights from the available online info, and post that value-added info alongside the actual regulatory text. Some of the stuff is pretty basic: I got a prompt working where you can nicely pull out what changed in those OFAC listings (I hate trying to compare them). Other insights are more aligned with my love of enforcement actions: finding not only trends in yearly actions and across regulators (although it’s still really only OFAC and OFSI at this point), but also trying to find what previous actions the new one is most like. Won’t that be fun? I sure think so.

OMG – I just realized some of you actually have no idea who I am. I’m Eric A. Sohn, formerly CAMS and CGSS-certified, formerly a frequent author for industry publications and an occasional presenter to conferences and customer groups. While I currently manage some sanctions analysts for a firm which supports the securities industry, I have done stints in VendorWorld for Accuity (as a professional services consultant) and Dow Jones (authoring a weekly sanctions newsletter, doing a vendor selection for name matching software, and being the pre-sales SME). And I am diving back into the professional association world, having just joined ACSS.

In my spare time, I an a rabid Philadelphia Eagles fan, and spend lots of time walking and playing with my 5-year old rescue dog (Pug/Shih Tau/Pekingese mix). The family: wife of 32+ years, and two adult offspring.