Built for the checks your team already runs
Onboarding, payments, trade controls, procurement, maritime and legal due diligence, investigations and journalism: each needs sanctions, PEP, debarment or registry data. Here is how each kind of team puts ours to work, and which collection or service fits.
KYC and KYB onboarding
Banks, credit unions, fintechs, money services businesses and payment companies check new customers before an account opens, and again at periodic review.
- What to check: sanctions (SEMA schedules, OFAC SDN, UK and EU lists), politically exposed persons, and for business customers the company and beneficial ownership registers.
- How: the matching API at sign-up, with name, date of birth and nationality; bulk files for periodic re-screening of the whole book.
- Collections: Sanctions, PEPs, KYB, Ownership.
Payments screening
Payment processors and treasury teams check the parties to a transfer before it clears, where a few seconds matter.
- What to check: sender, beneficiary and intermediary names against SEMA, OFAC SDN and the US Consolidated Screening List.
- How: the screening API with a tight collection such as
sanctions, or a local copy via on-premise deployment where names cannot leave your network.
Trade and export control
Exporters, freight forwarders and logistics firms check consignees and end users against restricted-party lists.
- What to check: the BIS Entity, Denied Persons and Unverified lists, the Consolidated Screening List, and Canadian sanctions schedules.
- How: batch matching of a customer or shipment file; filter results by programme.
Procurement and supplier checks
Government buyers, contractors and healthcare organizations check suppliers before contract award and while a contract runs.
- What to check: the PSPC Integrity Regime, SAM.gov exclusions and the HHS OIG LEIE, alongside sanctions.
- How: search by supplier name with the debarment collection; re-check the supplier list when the files update.
Maritime due diligence
Charterers, insurers, ship finance and commodity traders check vessels and the companies that own and operate them.
- What to check: sanctioned vessels by IMO number and name, and sanctioned maritime organizations.
- How: the
maritimecollection through /api/match/maritime withimoNumber; see the maritime collection.
Legal due diligence
Law firms, notaries and real estate professionals check clients and counterparties on a matter.
- What to check: corporate registry and beneficial ownership records, PEPs including US Congress and Canadian PEP sources, and sanctions.
- How: the free search for a single matter; a screening licence once checks are part of firm-wide intake.
Investigations
Fraud, forensic accounting and corporate security teams cross-reference people and companies across many lists at once.
- What to check: sanctions, PEP and debarment records together with Interpol Red Notices and FBI, DEA and Secret Service listings.
- How: record pages show the related listings from other registers; analysts working in spreadsheets can use the reconciliation endpoint.
Journalism and research
Reporters, researchers and civil society groups trace who is listed, where and since when. This use is generally free: see free and non-commercial use.
- What to check: any collection, with the source and date of each listing for citation.
- How: search, record pages and the free downloads, credited as our data licence describes.
Published work using the data
Research on sanctions, PEPs and financial crime that informs our methods is listed under research.
Organizations using Crown Intelligence
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