Data Sources

The US Treasury, State and Commerce Departments, UN Security Council, EU and UK each publish lists of individuals and entities that are forbidden to do business, open accounts or conduct financial transactions within their jurisdiction, or with individuals or organizations within their jurisdiction.

These lists are published in various data formats. OFAC API aggregates each data source into a common data structure, allowing clients to tailor the service to their unique compliance needs.

OFAC SDN

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) publishes and enforces sanction programs against countries and entities, for example companies or individuals with ties to terrorist organizations. The goal of these measures are to block assets and impose trade restrictions in an effort to accomplish foreign policy and national security goals.

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OFAC Consolidated Non SDN Sanctions

In addition to its list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons, OFAC maintains other sanctions lists which are consolidated by OFAC into the Non SDN Consolidated Sanctions List. More information on these sanctions programs can be found at treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions

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Politically Exposed Person (PEP)

A Politically Exposed Person is anyone who is at a higher risk to be involved in bribery or corruption based on their association with a prominent position or influence. OFAC API’s offers a comprehensive PEP data set of over 1 million individuals from multiple sources

EU Financial Sanctions Files (FSF)

The FSF contains the consolidated List of persons, groups and entities subject, under EU Sanctions, to an asset freeze and the prohibition to make funds and economic resources available to them

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BIS DPL

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) - Commerce Department publishes the Denied Persons List (DPL) containing individuals and companies who have been denied export and re-export privileges by BIS. The DPL contains foreign end users who pose a risk of diverting exports and any technology they contain to alternate destinations.

OFAC-API.com imports, sorts and formats the BIS DPL list daily, allowing for optimized search times and up to date result sets.

United Nations Security Council Consolidated List

The Consolidated List includes all individuals and entities subject to measures imposed by the Security Council. The inclusion of all names on one Consolidated List is to facilitate the implementation of the measures, and neither implies that all names are listed under one regime, nor that the criteria for listing specific names are the same. For each instance where the Security Council has decided to impose measures in response to a threat, a Security Council Committee manages the sanctions regime. Each sanctions committee established by the United Nations Security Council therefore publishes the names of individuals and entities listed in relation to that committee as well as information concerning the specific measures that apply to each listed name.

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United Kingdom - Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI)

The UK government publishes the UK sanctions list, which provides details of those designated under regulations made under the Sanctions Act. The list also details which sanctions measures apply to these persons or ships, and in the case of UK designations, provides a statement of reasons for the designation.

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Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

The Consolidated List is a list of all persons and entities who are subject to targeted financial sanctions under Australian sanctions law. Those listed may be Australian citizens, foreign nationals, or residents in Australia or overseas.

OFAC-API.com imports, sorts and formats the DFAT list daily, allowing for optimized search times and up to date result sets.