Simple. Reliable. Cost Effective.
Sanctions, PEP & Crime Data for your AML / KYC Screening
sanctions.io is the developer-friendly API-first solution for simple, reliable and cost-effective Sanctions & AML compliance.
Reliable Data
Reliable Data from Global Sanctions Lists, PEP & Crime Watchlists for your AML & KYC Screening
sanctions.io provides reliable and constantly updated data from global Sanctions Lists, PEP and Crime Lists – ready to be built into your own solution & system environment.
Simple to Integrate
Easily integrated into your own System Environment
Integrate Business Partner Screening with your own system environment by simply using our REST API, our Sanctions Database Exporter Option or our pre-built integrations for SAP, BigID and API3 Airnode.
Why sanctions.io?
Why you should work with us
sanctions.io is a reliable partner who provides high-quality data, reliable technology; with the right partnering mindset.
Sanctions Data
Data from global and regional Sanctions Lists (United Nations, OFAC, Canada, EU, UK Australia and many more), updated every 15 Minutes and simple to work with.
PEP Data
Our Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) Data are based on a manually sourced agenda of worldwide elections on both, national and regional level, including Judges, Military Personnel and close associates.
Crime Data
More than 8,000 data records from Interpol and FBI, included for free in our Sanctions Data subscription.
Simple API & Integrations
Use our RESTful API, our Exporter Option or one of our pre-built integrations for SAP, BigID or API3.
Reliable
Our API including all backend systems are Enterprise Ready with a 99.99% uptime - guaranteed.
Competitive Pricing
sanctions.io is the most cost-effective API for Sanctions and PEP screenings on the market.
A Heart for Developers
Extensive API documentation available on Swagger and our Knowledge Base. We also provide a full featured Sandbox environment for your testing.
Start-Up friendly
We know your pain & needs as a Start-Up. Our support and admin processes guarantee the responsiveness and flexibility you need.
Try before you buy
Try our free sanctions check on our website, our sandbox environment or sign up for a personal free trial with real data.
Cost-effective
Simple Pricing
Choose between our Sanctions Lists and our PEP Data package, or of course you can subscribe to both for comprehensive KYC & AML Business Partner screening needs.
Sanctions Lists
High Volume Screening-
Global Sanctions Lists
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Crime Data from FBI & Interpol
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Annual Subscription
PEP Data
Pre-Paid-
Global PEP Database
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More than 850k Records
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Annual Subscription
Please get in touch with us for our enterprise pricing for high-volume Sanctions & PEP screenings.
Try our Sanctions Check for free
Free Sanctions Check
Try our API right now and search for any name in our Sanctions Database for free.
(This free search covers Sanctions Lists from UN, OFAC, UK and EU)
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
AML & KYC Compliance
AML (Anti-Money Laundering) is an umbrella term for a range of regulatory processes businesses must have in place in order to prevent money laundering and making sure payments come from legitimate sources.
KYC (Know Your Customer) is a part of AML requiring companies to verify their customers’ identity and make sure the customer is generally not a ‘bad guy’ and doesn’t pose any risk to the organization.
The most important regulatory organizations on a global level are the United Nations and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) which is the global money laundering and terrorist financing ‘watchdog’. Their policies and recommendations are adopted by a wide range of countries (more than 200) as a standard and framework for their national regulations.
Besides those global organizations there are also regulators and laws on national levels which, depending on your market, could be relevant for your business. Some of the most relevant organizations in terms of international trade are for example the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in the US or the European Commission in the EU. For more information on global and national regulations see our blog.
Global AML & KYC regulations are a complicated field to navigate especially for small and midsize businesses (SMB). Not only the complexity of the regulations itself make it difficult but often there are regulations from multiple countries or organizations to obey.
While the financial industry and other ‘high risk industries’ such as real estate have been required for a long time to have KYC processes in place, many other industries only now face stricter regulations due to global widespread of KYC and AML compliance requirements.
In general all businesses are required to adopt compliance programs and for example check their customers against Sanctions and PEP (Politically Exposed Persons) lists to understand the risk in doing business with their clients.
The risk for non-compliance with AML, KYC and Sanctions regulations includes high fines and penalties (see here our blog post about the cost of neglecting AML compliance), getting your business or yourself on a sanctions or watch list and/or could even involve prison sentences for executives and officers.
Testing sanctions.io
Check out our FREE Sanctions Lists Search right here on our website. Just enter a Name and see the results instantly. If you like you can even add more search filters such as Address, Country, Sanction List Name and Fuzziness Level. Try it out right now.
Our FREE 7-Day Sanctions Check Trial gives you unlimited access to our Sanctions database through our API.
Just sign up for the trial right here (no worries, no credit card required). You can find the API documentation right in our customer portal as well as in our Knowledge Base.
You want to test our PEP data? Just use our Sandbox Environment where you can do unlimited testing with historic real data.
You want to test our API from a technical standpoint first before taking the next steps? No problem at all, we have you covered with our Sandbox environment. There you can test our API as much as you like with real (historic) data.
Just visit our Sandbox Environment and start testing. You can find our API documentation in the Sandbox as well as in our Knowledge Base.
Sanctions Compliance
Learn more about how to develop and set up an effective Sanctions Screening Process.
What is AML?
What does AML mean and why is it important in finance and unregulated industries.
AML Risk Assesment
What is an AML Risk Assessment, why is it important for your organization and what are the key steps?
The latest Sanctions.io news
Find here our latest Blog posts and Knowledge Base articles
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