How does name matching work in screening?
Modern screening engines combine multiple matching techniques: exact match, normalised exact (case, accents, stop-words removed), phonetic algorithms (Soundex, Metaphone), edit-distance (Levenshtein, Damerau-Levenshtein), token-based similarity (Jaccard, Jaro-Winkler), transliteration across scripts (Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese), and increasingly, ML/embedding-based semantic matching for entity disambiguation. Each technique produces a score; an aggregate score above a configurable threshold raises an alert.