Frequently asked questions

A big part of the challenge of sanctions screening is to track and identify corporate ownership structures associated with sanctioned entities (see, for example, the OFAC 50% rule and its European equivalent).

We see this as an exciting challenge, which we are beginning to address by bringing in relevant context from non-sanctions datasets, such as company and beneficial ownership databases. For example, we include sanctions-linked companies from the ICIJ OffshoreLeaks, GLEIF, Open Ownership and 11 national databases. We also link to, but don't include detailed data from OpenCorporates.com. In the future, we plan to also include structured data sourced from investigative reporting as an additional source of information on sanctions-linked entities.

However, this process is incremental and the results will always be incomplete as long as secrecy jurisdictions and a lack of global ownership information are weaponized by sanctioned entities to evade enforcement.