1. A computer-implemented method to facilitate management of risk related to political exposure associated with a financial transaction, comprising: receiving, via a computer, digital financial transaction data associated with the transaction; determining, via the computer, that a participant associated the financial transaction is a politically identified person (“PIP”) by: comparing, via the computer, data identifying the participant associated with the financial transaction data to information stored in a database, wherein comparing comprises searching for both identical and similar names in the database; and verifying, via the computer, the data identifying the participant by comparing the financial transaction data to information associated with the data identifying the participant stored in the database if the data identifying the participant matches a name in the database, wherein verifying the data identifying the participant further comprises determining a certainty of the match by scoring the comparisons between the financial transaction data and the information associated with the data identifying the participant; calculating, via the computer, an overall transaction political risk quotient associated with the financial transaction; and generating, via the computer, based on the overall transaction political risk quotient, a suggested action for the financial transaction.
16. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein verifying the data identifying the participant further includes aggregating the scores of the comparisons to generate an overall score associated with the match.