Find sanctions targets and persons of interest
OpenSanctions helps investigators find leads, allows companies to manage risk and enables technologists to build data-driven products.
1,268,401 entities · 161 data sources · updated · bulk data · screening tool
People and companies that matter
Persons of interest data provides the key that helps analysts find evidence of corruption, money laundering and other criminal activity.Clean data and transparent process
Our open source data pipeline takes on the complex task of building a clean, de-duplicated, and well-understood dataset.Sources with global scope
We integrate data from 161 global sources, including official sanctions lists, data on politically exposed persons and entities of criminal interest.Use OpenSanctions to manage business risk
OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Business and commercial users must either acquire a data license to use our high-quality dataset, or subscribe to our pay-as-you-go API service.
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Updates from OpenSanctions, including new features, technical deep dives, and analysis.
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Subscribe nowThis was 2023 at OpenSanctions – plus what’s next!
As 2023 draws to a close, it’s time for us to reflect on our second year of operation - and to give you a little preview for our third.
· 2023 · CompanyWhen national security meets financial securities
We’ve built a new custom data export with sanctioned securities to make it easier to screen asset management portfolios for sanctions risks.
· Securities · ScreeningHow we're mapping out politically exposed persons
We're taking the plunge and publishing our methodology on collecting PEP data to serve the industry as a potential reference point in a challenging area of compliance data.
· PEP · Coverage · TransparencyTransparency Fabric: It takes a network to fight a network
The Transparency Fabric aims to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, and sanctions evasion by mapping GLEIF's universal entity identifier, the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), to both Open Ownership and OpenSanctions' datasets.
· GLEIF · BeneficialOwnership · GraphAnnouncing the logic-v1 scoring mechanism
OpenSanctions is constantly improving our services, and we’ve just released a new version of our API software, `yente`, that lets users try a new matching system.
· Matching · API · Scoring
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Collections JSON
Collections are data distributions provided by OpenSanctions that combine entities from many sources based on a topic. Learn more...
OpenSanctions Default
This distribution includes the data collected by OpenSanctions that meets quality standards and would be useful in a screening system or for investigative use.
Consolidated Sanctions
Consolidated list of sanctioned entities designated by different countries and international organisations. This can include military, trade and travel restrictions.
Special interest collections contain selections of the data that are more specialised than the default collections.
| Name | Coverage | Entities | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) | updated daily | 520,912 | |
| Sanctioned securities | updated daily | 223,285 | |
| Know-Your-Business (KYB) Datasets | updated monthly | 81,427,672 | |
| Open Ownership Datasets | updated weekly | 29,944,972 | |
| Warrants and Criminal Entities | updated daily | 235,350 | |
