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Screen any name, from your own systems
Send what you hold on a customer, supplier or counterparty. Get back the closest sanctions, PEP, debarment and enforcement records, each with a score, the reason it matched and the source it came from, ready to log in your case file.
- Matching and search. Score a person, company, organization or vessel against a whole collection, or run a full-text search with filters.
- Sanctions, PEP, debarment and crime data. One record per listing, credited to its publisher, with the date it was last loaded.
What the API does
The API is the same service behind our Screening and Search pages. It is read-only and answers in JSON.
Entity matching
Send a name with whatever else you hold: date of birth, nationality or country, an IMO number for vessels. Each result carries a score from 0 to 1, a match flag and a feature-by-feature explanation. Up to 20 queries per request. Query bodies are not stored.
Matching reference →Search
Full-text search across names and aliases, filtered by entity type, list type, nationality, programme or source, with facet counts from /api/facets to build filter menus.
Full records
Fetch a single record with its source, programme, dates and the related records from other registers that describe the same person or company.
Entity reference →Spreadsheet reconciliation
A reconciliation endpoint for tools such as OpenRefine, so an analyst can check a column of names against a collection without writing code.
Reconcile reference →Try a match
This box calls /api/match/default live. Enter a full name; add a birth year to see the score change.
| Record | Score | Source | List type |
|---|
Collections you can screen against
Each endpoint takes a collection name. Pick the narrowest one that answers your question; default covers them all.
| Collection | What it holds | Details |
|---|---|---|
default | Every screening record: sanctions, PEPs, debarments and crime listings. | Crown Default |
sanctions | Sanctions and consolidated screening lists, including Canada's SEMA schedules and OFAC. | Global sanctions |
peps | Politically exposed persons from official disclosures and legislatures. | PEPs |
crime | Procurement debarments, regulatory exclusions, tax warrants and insolvency notices. | Crime |
maritime | Sanctioned vessels and maritime organizations, matched by IMO number. | Maritime |
Registry data (registered persons, companies and beneficial owners) is held separately and is not part of the screening collections.
Access and pricing
Today the public endpoints are open and read-only, with no key. Rate limits and volume caps may apply to automated or systematic use under our terms of use. Production screening in a business process needs a licence.
- Free use
- Individual lookups, journalism and research. See free and non-commercial use.
- Per query
- Monthly plans
- From . See every plan
- Free allowance
- Flat-rate licence
- For steady in-house screening, see the screening licence.
- Inside your product
- See the reseller / OEM licence.