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.
1,982,322 entities · 288 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 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 288 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.
More than a Technical Problem: Name Matching in Sanctions Screening
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.
Registry Amnesia: How Russian Data on Sanctioned Companies is disappearing – and how we put it back.
Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the dictatorship has increasingly hidden and falsified data in its trade registry. We’ve churned through 100GB of compressed XML files, so that we can now present both: the current, memory-impaired version as well as the pre-war data.
Targeting the shadow fleet: a new download of sanctioned vessels
We've developed a dedicated export of sanctioned vessels that can be used for screening a fleet of ships against sanction risks.
OpenSanctions teams up with Neterium!
We are partnering with Neterium to help financial institutions screen large transaction volumes with quality sanctions data.
This was 2024 at OpenSanctions!
It’s time for us to look back on 2024 – a year that saw the biggest increase in our data coverage yet.
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 | 208,397 | ||
| Know-Your-Business (KYB) Datasets | monthly | 86,848,326 | ||
| Maritime-related sanctions | daily | 108,098 | ||
| Politically Exposed Persons Core Data | daily | 889,788 | ||
| Regulatory Watchlists | daily | 158,797 | ||
| Sanctioned Securities | daily | 332,328 | ||
| Warrants and Criminal Entities | daily | 252,466 | ||
