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Understanding the data

Our data brings together listings from official registers around the world in one structure. These guides explain that structure, so that you can load it, match against it and keep it up to date.

Entity structureThe JSON object for a person, company or vessel Identifiers and deduplicationRecord IDs, entity IDs and how records are grouped Data enrichmentAdding our data to your own records Monitoring workflowsScreening your customers again as lists change

The model in brief

Every party named by a publisher becomes an entity: a person, company, organization, vessel or aircraft. Its details, such as names, aliases, birth date, nationality and IMO number, are properties, and every property holds a list of values because publishers often give several. The listing itself is a separate entity that points to the party and records which register published it and under which programme.

Each entity comes from one source register, and registers are bundled into collections such as Crown Default or Consolidated sanctions. When the same party appears in several registers, each listing is its own record, and records we believe describe the same party share an entity ID. The structure follows the open FollowTheMoney model, so files can be read with tools built for it.

Crown Default currently holds 3,185,699 active records from 1,278 loaded sources, as of September 24, 2026.

Learn more

Data dictionary: every schema, property and property type.
Flat and nested entities: the two shapes of our entity files.
Risk topics: the codes that say why a party is listed.
Statement data model: every value with its source and dates.
Dataset metadata: the index files that describe each collection.
Glossary: the terms used across the documentation.
Change log: changes to the data, files and API.

Last updated 2026-10-04