Filter engine scans the customer data or financial transaction against the sanction list, produces alert or no alert results. Some alerts are true alerts, while others are false alerts. There are some entries in the sanction list, produces large volume of false alerts. Exceptions, also called Good Guys are used to eliminate those false alerts. Each Sanction List entry can have 0 to many Exceptions. If the customer data match the sanction list name, at the same time, the customer data also 100% match the exception name, the filter engine will ignore the alert and produce no alert result.
For example, "John" is the name of a SDN list. So "John smith", "ED John" will get alerts on this entry. If we add "John smith", "Ed John" as exceptions to this list, the filter will ignore the alerts on John and produce no alert result. Please note that customer data must be 100% match the exception name, in order to ignore the alert on this entry.
Like Alt Name, Exceptions must link to a SDN list entry
This function is used to manage those Exceptions, or Good Guys. Click the "Exception" in the left navigation menu under List management, a new "Exception" Tab folder will created in the right panel. There are 3 sub-Tab folders, Search Exceptions, Search result Exceptions and Create New Exceptions

| entNum | Link to SDN unique record identifier. |
| GGNum | Unique record identifier. |
| Name | Name of Exceptions. |
| GG Type | Type of Exceptions. |
| CreatedByDate | TEntry created date and time. |
| CreatedByUser | User who create this entry. |
| ModifiedByDate | Last modified date and time. |
| ModifiedByUser | Last modified user. |
| AND and OR | Select AND radio box if you want those criteria add together. Select OR radio box if you want to get the result of either criteria meet |

The top part is the table, shows the list of the exceptions (good guys) that meet the search criteria. The bottom part is the details of the selected entry.
Double Click : the selected record in the table to modify this entry. A new Tab folder "Update/Delete Exception" will be added, as show below

Select the "Create New Exception" Tab to create a new entry.

| Field Name | Descriptions. |
|---|---|
| entNum | Link to SDN unique record identifier. |
| GGNum | Unique record identifier; This is a read only field. |
| Name | Name of Exceptions; This is a mandatory field. |
| GG Type | Type of Exceptions. This is reserved field, not used now. |
| CreatedByDate | Date and Time when this entry is created. It is a read only field. |
| CreatedByUser | User who create this entry. It is a read only field. |
| ModifiedByDate | Last modified date and time; It is a read only field. |
| ModifiedByUser | Last modified user; It is a read only field. |