A designation used to mean a name on a list – today it might be a crypto wallet, a port, or an oil refinery. In this article, we explain some of the shifts taking place in the sanctions landscape and how our FollowtheMoney data model adapts in a regulatory environment that’s continually in flux.
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How we’ve built an open data model that adapts to whatever gets sanctioned next
Tags: FollowtheMoney, Crypto, Shadow fleet, EU sanctions · Published:
Tilores Studio: Screen your entire customer list against OpenSanctions in seconds
Tags: Entity Resolution, Screening, partnership · Published:
Resolve duplicate customer records using Tilores technology, then screen against OpenSanctions’ 400+ sources spanning sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), and watchlists.
Going 007: An agent toolkit for talking to the OpenSanctions API
Tags: SDK, CLI, MCP · Published:
If an LLM agent is going to run your sanctions screening, you need to know exactly what it's checking — and be able to prove it. yente-client provides an SDK, CLI, and MCP server rolled into one toolkit, with our open matching engine running underneath. Here's what each layer does, and why data provenance will matter more, not less, as compliance workflows continue to go agentic.
Lost in translation: Standardizing our name-cleaning framework
Tags: Semantics, Names, Name cleaning · Published:
We collect, clean, and aggregate data from hundreds of sanctions lists, watchlists, and PEP registries worldwide. Our name-cleaning framework is designed to provide a culturally aware approach while ensuring all sources enter OpenSanctions speaking one data language.
Down the ownership chain: introducing sanction.control
Tags: Company ownership, OFAC, Assets, Risk tagging · Published:
We now distinguish ownership from adjacency when annotating related entities.
sanction.controlcaptures subsidiaries, assets, and vessels anywhere in a sanctioned party's ownership chain, whilesanction.linkedis reserved for plain adjacency.
Collections & datasets JSON
Collections are data distributions provided by OpenSanctions that combine entities from many sources based on a topic. Learn more...
Consolidated Sanctions
104,977 entities
Consolidated list of sanctioned entities designated by different countries and international organisations. This can include military, trade and travel restrictions.
OpenSanctions Default
1,802,692 entities
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 | 214,182 | ||
| Know-Your-Business (KYB) Datasets | monthly | 93,298,899 | ||
| Maritime-related sanctions | daily | 155,899 | ||
| Politically Exposed Persons Datasets | daily | 944,193 | ||
| Regulatory Watchlists | daily | 169,042 | ||
| Sanctioned Securities | daily | 84,948 | ||
| Warrants and Criminal Entities | daily | 263,995 | ||
