Sanctions and AML Screening for Financial Institutions

Screen customers, correspondents, agents and beneficial owners against comprehensive sanctions, PEP, adverse media and criminal watchlists. Use a fast 350ms API, web portal or your CRM.

Or score your program in 60 seconds
~350 ms
Avg API response
Hourly
Data updates
400+
Customers
SOC 2
Type II compliant
Live transaction screening
 
   
Screened against global watchlists refreshed every 60 minutes.

Five Things That Break Screening for Financial Institutions

The pressures differ by institution type. Choose one to see what applies.

Interactive

Score your readiness and risk exposure

Set your institution type, the checkpoints where screening runs today, and the risk factors present in your book. The scorecard combines both into one readiness read: how covered you are, and how much that coverage needs to be, given what you carry.

Screening Across the Full Relationship

Six moments where a designated party can reach the institution. Select one to see what gets screened, and what it costs to miss it.

One API Call, Across Every Relationship

One endpoint for customers, agents and correspondents

Roughly 350 ms average response against 100+ sanctions, PEP, adverse media and criminal watchlist sources, whichever relationship type is being screened.

Continuous monitoring of the whole book

Lists refresh every 60 minutes. The book is re-screened automatically and a webhook fires the moment a customer or counterparty is designated.

Matching tuned for transliteration and aliases

Arabic, Cyrillic and Chinese name variants scored consistently, with an adjustable threshold so the institution decides where auto-clear ends and review begins.

Audit trail your examiner accepts

Every alert, clear and override timestamped against the list snapshot used, exportable to CSV or JSON per entity or per relationship type.

POST /v2/search
{
  "name": "Meridian Trade Bank",
  "entity_type": "correspondent",
  "jurisdiction": "PA",
  "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 Screening Program

Bring your onboarding flow and your correspondent or agent list. We'll map where the API call goes, what it costs at your volume, and what changes for your compliance team. No deck.

What happens next
A 20-minute call
Your book, your relationships, 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 Financial Institutions, Answered

The questions compliance and IT teams ask before an integration.