---
title: "Demotion of name translations from name to alias field in EU FSF sanctions list"
url: "https://www.opensanctions.org/changelog/36/"
id: "36"
date_created: "2025-10-30T15:25:19.996Z"
date_effective: "2025-11-30"
breaking: false
categories: ["Datasets"]
---

# Demotion of name translations from name to alias field in EU FSF sanctions list

For designated entries, the [EU Financial Sanctions Files (FSF)](/datasets/eu_fsf) sanctions list includes names translated to one or more of the [official languages of the European Union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Union).

Currently, all of these names are included in the `name` field, marking them as primary names. Once this change becomes effective, they will be listed in the `alias` field. The primary (English) name of the entry will still be listed in the `name` field.

This change is part of a broader effort to ensure that the `name` field only contains the highest-quality names available, and that names that can be considered less relevant are listed in `alias` and `weakAlias` fields instead.

Users of our hosted API and yente are not affected by this change, as the built-in scoring algorithms consider both the `alias` and the `name` fields for matching of names.