Sanctions and AML Screening for Gaming and Gambling

Screen every player registration against global and local sanctions lists, PEP records including close associates, criminal watchlists and adverse media. A ~350 ms API that runs inside onboarding, or the portal with no setup required.

Or check your license obligations in 60 seconds
~350 ms
Avg API response
Hourly
Data updates
400+
Customers
SOC 2
Type II compliant
Player registrations
 
Every registration screened against global watchlists refreshed every 60 minutes.

Five Things That Break Screening in Gaming and Gambling

The pressures differ by how you take bets. Choose one to see what applies.

Interactive

Check your license obligations

Select the markets you hold licenses in. The checker names the regulator in each, consolidates the AML and screening duties they have in common, and flags the ones only some of them impose.

Screening Across the Player Lifecycle

Six moments where a designated or high-risk party can reach the platform. Select one to see what gets screened, and what it costs to miss it.

One API Call, Inside Player Onboarding

Real-time screening inside registration

Roughly 350 ms average response, fast enough to run on every signup rather than in a nightly batch. A structured response your own AML tooling can act on immediately.

Ongoing monitoring of the player base

Lists refresh every 60 minutes. The player base is re-screened automatically with real-time alerts, plus allow and deny lists so a cleared player is not flagged twice.

Matching built to cut false positives

NLP-based matching handles transliteration, nicknames, honorifics and spelling errors, with a threshold you set. Together Gaming saw roughly a fivefold reduction in false positives.

Audit trail your regulator accepts

Auditable timestamps on every alert, clear and override against the list snapshot used, exportable to CSV, JSON or PDF. SOC 2 compliant.

POST /v2/search
{
  "name": "Anna Lindqvist",
  "entity_type": "individual",
  "jurisdiction": "SE",
  "data_source": "SDN,EU,UN,HMT,PEP",
  "min_score": 0.88
}
REST + webhooksBatch endpointSandbox keySOC 2 compliant

iGaming Case Study: Together Gaming and sanctions.io

An established iGaming platform and operator across multiple regulated European markets, powering dozens of casino brands.

Case study

"The integration was flawless. Using you guys put that puzzle out of our head. We don't need to think much about this particular side of the business."

Vilius Balciunas
COO, Together Gaming

Together Gaming moved off an inflexible legacy provider and integrated our RESTful API directly into their proprietary platform. Every new registration is now screened automatically, with structured responses feeding their own AML case management rather than an analyst logging into an external portal each day.

Outcomes
5x fewer false positives
Analysts spend far less time clearing noise and more on true risk cases.
Grew roughly 56x
March 2023 to late 2024, with some brands near 900%.
Flat match volume
Screening matches held steady despite that growth, with no added headcount.

Hear From Our Customers

"The product is amazing and the tech is tight. We integrated the sanctions.io API within a couple of days and now perform daily screenings of our entire customer base."

Dan Westgarth
COO, Deel Inc.

"Our experience with sanctions.io has been transformative for our compliance processes. Their reliable and comprehensive data feeds give us the peace of mind that comes from operating within international compliance standards."

Armand Brunelle
CTO, WeFi Technology Group

"We couldn't be happier with sanctions.io. The team is super responsive to our requests for help. In short, total satisfaction!"

Randy Trigg
Director of Information Management, Global Fund for Women
Next step

Twenty Minutes on Your Player Onboarding Flow

Bring your registration flow and your license footprint. We'll map where the API call goes, what it costs at your registration volume, and what changes for your AML analysts. No deck.

What happens next
A 20-minute call
Your registration flow, your licenses, your volume. No discovery deck.
A sandbox key the same day
Screen real names against live lists before any contract.
Live in just days
Most teams ship in under a week.

The practical guide to sanctions screening

How screening programs are built, tuned and defended: list selection across OFAC, EU, UN and HMT/OFSI, thresholds you can defend in an examination, false-positive management, and the evidence examiners ask for.

Gaming and gambling AML guide

Why AML compliance is critical in gaming and gambling, the regulations that apply, and best practices for implementing effective measures. Paired with our deep dives on money laundering in online casinos and compliance by design in iGaming.

sanctions.io product data sheet

The one-pager procurement and IT ask for: full list inventory, refresh cadence, endpoint reference, latency and uptime figures, security posture, data residency and deployment options.

Sanctions and AML Screening for Gaming and Gambling, Answered

The questions AML, compliance and platform teams ask before an integration.