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.
2,036,809 entities · 114 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 114 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.
News & updates
Updates from OpenSanctions, including new features, technical deep dives, and analysis.
This 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 · Company
When 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 · Screening
How 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 · Transparency
Transparency 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 · Graph
Announcing 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. False positives and accuracy are a wicked problem across the AML space, and we’re actively working to improve the precision of our results.
· Matching · API · Scoring
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Collections
Collections are datasets provided by OpenSanctions that combine data from various data sources focussed on a topic.
OpenSanctions Default
This collection includes most of the data collected by OpenSanctions which meets quality standards and would be useful to an analyst or journalist attempting to perform a due-diligence type task.
Consolidated Sanctions
Consolidated list of sanctioned entities designated by different countries and international organisations. This can include military, trade and travel restrictions.
Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)
A politically exposed person (PEP) is a person that has been entrusted with a prominent public function. PEPs include elected officials and members of government.
Warrants and Criminal Entities
Companies and people implicated in or convicted of criminal activity, including the "Most Wanted" lists of various countries and international authorities.
