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.
1,687,932 entities · 242 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 242 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.
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Subscribe nowA Major Update to our On-Premise API Service
Yente 4.0 brings fast, incremental database updates and compatibility with AWS OpenSearch, making sanctions and PEP screening more efficient and easy-to-deploy.
· API · yente · DeltasLists inside of lists: mapping the world of sanctions programs
What do the United States’ Burma-Related sanctions, Chinese Military Companies Sanctions, the Sectoral Sanctions Identifiers and the Foreign Sanctions Evaders have in common?
· Metadata · Sanctions · ProgramsWe’re now ISO 27001 certified!
After several months of learning and preparation, OpenSanctions has passed its first independent audit to ensure our organisation’s adherence to the ISO 27001 standard for information security.
· Compliance · Security · ISO27001GraphAware webinar: the challenge of investigating complex ownership structures
How to disentangle complex ownership structures with the help of data and knowledge graphs
· BeneficialOwnership · Graph · AnalyticsHow civil society organisations can use OpenSanctions to conduct screening checks
Many civil society organisations (CSOs) are required by their funders to conduct screening checks before they establish new relationships with contractors, new staff and other vendors.
· CSO · NonProfits · Screening
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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 | 181,571 | ||
| Know-Your-Business (KYB) Datasets | monthly | 85,519,016 | ||
| Open Ownership Datasets | weekly | 33,939,257 | ||
| Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) | daily | 713,459 | ||
| Regulatory Watchlists | daily | 179,293 | ||
| Sanctioned Securities | daily | 282,458 | ||
| Warrants and Criminal Entities | daily | 221,235 | ||
