METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR SCREENING CHINESE ADDRESS DATA

A system provides for identifying orders in an order management system which are to proscribed individuals or organizations having Chinese addresses. The Chinese address items of the order management database, and the Chinese address items of a database of proscribed individuals and organizations, are each converted into respective databases in a common writing system, namely the Pin Yin transliteration standard. In the conversion process, Simplified Mandarin items in the order management database which can be converted in multiple ways are converted in each of those ways. The converted items from the two Pin Yin databases are then compared.