1. An update management system configured to manage updates to a financial transaction monitoring system, wherein the financial transaction monitoring system is configured to specially handle any financial transactions involving an entity identified in a list of entities, and wherein the update management system comprises: a communication interface configured to receive an update to the list of entities, the update comprising one or more new keywords; a memory device comprising information about a plurality of transactions; and a processor configured to: determine the number of transactions in the plurality of transactions that can properly be associated with at least one of the one or more new keywords; and determine whether the update will impact the financial transaction monitoring system based at least partially on one or more process metrics and the determined number of transactions in the plurality of transactions that can properly be associated with at least one of the one or more new keywords.