Data you can trust, on people you can't
OpenSanctions helps investigators find leads, allows companies to manage risk and enables technologists to build data-driven products.
2,108,741 entities · 298 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 sanctions evasion, money laundering and other criminal activity.Clean and transparent data
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 298 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.
What we’ve been building RSS
Updates from OpenSanctions, including new features, technical deep dives, and analysis.
Rosetta, not Roulette: Improving sanctions screening results with our new logic-v2 matcher
Tags: Yente, Matcher · Published:
With yente 5.0, we’re introducing a new screening algorithm, logic-v2. This new system reflects feedback from our users and introduces a more precise, explainable, and culturally-aware way to match names of people and companies.
OpenSanctions and Quantifind join forces to deliver sanctions risk prevention tech
Tags: Partnership · Published:
We partner with Quantifind to serve high-quality and transparent sanctions data to compliance teams via their AI-powered risk intelligence platform GraphyteTM.
Tags: FollowTheMoney, OpenSource, Stack · Published:
This week, we are releasing version 4.0 of the FollowTheMoney (FtM) toolchain.
Sanctions Program Mapping: Better Transparency and Navigation
Tags: Programs, Sanctions · Published:
Imagine you're a compliance officer and your sanctions screening system flags one of your international clients as sanctioned. But what are the implications for you, and what actions need to be taken? That depends not just on who is sanctioned, but under which program.
More than a Technical Problem: Name Matching in Sanctions Screening
Tags: Matching, Semantics, Names · Published:
In many fields, a name is just one of many clues you can lean on to pin down an identity. But in sanctions screening, a name might be all you’ve got. This is one of the core parts of our work: matching the names of people and companies to those on global watchlists. It might be tempting to treat this as a purely technical task: choose an algorithm and press "run". But that’s only the beginning.
Collections & datasets JSON
Collections are data distributions provided by OpenSanctions that combine entities from many sources based on a topic. Learn more...
Consolidated Sanctions
Consolidated list of sanctioned entities designated by different countries and international organisations. This can include military, trade and travel restrictions.
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.
Special interest collections contain selections of the data that are more specialised than the default collections.
| Name | Updates | Entities | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debarred Companies and Individuals | daily | 211,015 | ||
| Know-Your-Business (KYB) Datasets | monthly | 87,999,121 | ||
| Maritime-related sanctions | daily | 112,720 | ||
| Politically Exposed Persons Datasets | daily | 990,136 | ||
| Regulatory Watchlists | daily | 161,771 | ||
| Sanctioned Securities | daily | 349,682 | ||
| Warrants and Criminal Entities | daily | 255,555 | ||
