OpenSanctions

The open-source database of sanctions, watchlists, and politically exposed persons — aggregating hundreds of sources and relied on by compliance teams, investigators, and journalists.

OpenSanctions is a financial crime data provider. We build and maintain an international database of persons and companies of political, criminal, or economic interest. We combine sanctions lists, lists of politically exposed persons, and other public-interest information from hundreds of sources into a single, structured, continuously updated dataset.

Our data is a component that sits deep in the technology stack of the financial services industry. Compliance platforms embed OpenSanctions into their screening workflows, investigation tools build graph analysis on top of it, and developers wire it into products that serve regulated industries. Researchers and journalists rely on it to track political conflicts and cross-border financial crime.