Sanctions and AML Screening for Professional Services

Screen clients, engagements and referral sources against comprehensive sanctions, PEP, adverse media and criminal watchlists. Whether you are a global firm or a boutique practice, no engineering setup is required to start.

Or check your obligations in 60 seconds
~350 ms
Avg API response
Hourly
Data updates
400+
Customers
SOC 2
Type II compliant
Client acceptance file
 
 
 
   
Screened against global watchlists refreshed every 60 minutes.

Five Things That Break Screening in Professional Services

The pressures differ by practice. Choose one to see what applies.

Interactive

Check what your firm is obliged to do

Select the work your firm does and where it operates. You get your likely status under each AML regime, the specific due diligence obligations that follow, and what applies regardless of AML scope. Most firms are in scope for more than they expect.

Screening Across the Client Lifecycle

Six moments where a designated party can become your client, your counterparty or your referral source. Select one to see what gets screened, and what it costs to miss it.

Screening That Fits How Your Firm Actually Works

No setup required to start

Screen one client at a time in the portal, or upload an Excel file to screen the whole client base at once. Reports come back in several formats. No implementation project, no engineering time.

Continuous monitoring across long engagements

Lists refresh every 60 minutes and the client base is re-screened automatically, with allow and deny lists so a cleared client is not flagged twice. Retainers outlive the check that opened them.

PEP data for a sector where PEPs are routine

Over 1M PEP records from every country, including family members, close associates and international organization PEPs, with position history so a hit can be assessed rather than just flagged.

Evidence your supervisor accepts

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

POST /v2/search
{
  "name": "Halvorsen Holdings SA",
  "entity_type": "company",
  "jurisdiction": "LU",
  "data_source": "SDN,EU,UN,HMT,PEP",
  "min_score": 0.88
}
REST + webhooksBatch endpointSandbox keySOC 2 compliant

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

"sanctions.io combines robust, reliable and industry leading technology with hands on customer support. We implemented full passenger vetting in a matter of days and have had no issues with the API since inception."

Patrick O'Brian
Flight Operations, Innotech-Execaire Aviation Group
Next step

Twenty Minutes on Your Client Onboarding

Bring your client onboarding process and your matter intake. We'll map where screening fits, what it costs at your client volume, and what changes for the partners doing intake. No deck.

What happens next
A 20-minute call
Your practice, your client mix, 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.

Selecting a suitable screening vendor

The evaluation criteria that separate providers: list coverage and refresh cadence, match-quality benchmarking, latency under load, data residency, and the commercial terms that bite at volume. Includes an RFP question set.

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 Professional Services, Answered

The questions MLROs, compliance partners and practice managers ask before they start.