RESTful API for Real-Time Transaction Screening.

Developer friendly, easy-to-implement and enterprise-grade RESTful API with a guaranteed uptime of more than 99.99% and ~200ms response time.

API response time ~200ms
Enterprise-grade uptime >99.99%
AI-based screening technology
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Sanctions Screening Guide

Read about setting up an effective Sanctions Screening process in our free Sanctions Screening Guide.

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Real-time screening

Event-driven Sanctions & AML Screening in Real-time

Our API supports event-driven Sanctions & AML screenings in real time. Especially useful for user/customer onboarding and also transaction-based checks where uptime and API performance is key.

Ultra-fast API

RESTful API with ~200ms response time.

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Enterprise-grade Uptime

SLA guaranteed uptime of more than 99.99%.

Smart Screening Technology

Our industry-leading AI-based name-matching technology helps reduce false positives and negatives.

Up-to-date Watchlist Data

Our Sanctions & AML Watchlists are updated every 60 minutes, making sure you are not missing any new matches.

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AI-powered Screening

Name Matching is the real challenge in Sanctions & AML compliance. Our smart matching technology reduces false positives while preventing false negatives.

Industry-leading name-matching technology based on latest research and achievements in AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Covers Transliteration issues, Nicknames, Spelling errors, Honorifics and many more 'real-world' matching challenges
Reducing significantly false positives while making sure no real matches slip through the cracks
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Resources

Have questions about Sanctions & AML screening or how to integrate sanctions.io into your compliance processes? See our Knowledge Base with many helpful resources.

Knowledge Base
  • Our Implementation Guide helps you with implementing sanctions.io into your compliance process and systems.

  • Our Sanctions Screening Guide helps you set up your Sanctions compliance process.

  • Our Blog keeps you up-to-date about Sanctions & AML compliance and Industry News.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is Sanctions and AML Compliance relevant for my business?

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 / financial institutions and other ‘high risk industries’ such as real estate have been required for a long time to have AML and KYC processes in place, many other industries only now face stricter regulations due to global widespread of Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering compliance requirements.

In general all businesses are required to adopt Sanctions- and AML compliance programs and for example check their customers / business partners against global Sanctions lists to understand the risk in doing business with their clients.

How can I test sanctions.io before subscribing?

We offer several ways for our customers to test our data and technology before committing to a subscription: 

1. Free Sanctions Check on our website
Check out our FREE Sanctions Lists Search right here on our website. Just enter a Name and see the results instantly.

2. Our free 7-day trial
Our FREE 7-Day Trial gives you unlimited access to our Sanctions database and also 20 PEP API calls for free. 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.

Do you offer high-volume discounts?

Yes, we provide high-volume discounts for enterprise customers. Just schedule a call with our Customer Support team to discuss your use case and get an individual pricing proposal.

Why should we work with sanctions.io?

sanctions.io is a reliable partner who provides high-quality data, reliable technology, with the right partnering mindset:

Global Sanctions Lists
Data from global Sanctions Lists (United Nations, OFAC, Canada, EU, UK, Australia and many more), updated every 60 Minutes.

PEP Data
Our Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) Database is based on an agenda of worldwide elections, covers more than 1M records and includes Judges, Military Personnel and close associates.

Crime Watchlists
More than 8k data records from Interpol and FBI, included for free in our Sanctions Data subscription.

API & Integrations
Use our RESTful API, our Exporter Option or one of our pre-built integrations for SAP, BigID or API3.

99.99%+ Uptime
Our API including all backend systems are Enterprise Ready with a 99.99%+ uptime and average response time < 200ms.

AI-based Screening Technology
Leading screening technology based on the latest achievements in NLP and AI. Fewer false positives while preventing false negatives.

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.

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