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Why are Sanctions and AML Compliance relevant to my business?

Global AML & KYC regulations are a complicated field to navigate especially for small and midsize businesses (SMB). Not only does the complexity of the regulations itself make it difficult but often there are regulations from multiple countries or organizations to obey.
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While the financial industry and other ‘high-risk industries’ such as real estate have been required for a long time to have AML and KYC processes in place, many other industries only now face stricter regulations due to global widespread of Sanctions and AML compliance requirements.
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‍In general, all businesses are required to adopt Sanctions- and AML compliance programs and for example check their customers / business partners against global Sanctions lists to understand the risk of doing business with their clients.

How can I set up an effective Sanctions Screening Process?

" is a great starting point. Also please see our 

 with additional considerations for the technical setup. 

sanctions.io is a reliable partner who provides high-quality data, reliable technology, with the right partnering mindset:



Data from global Sanctions Lists (United Nations, OFAC, Canada, EU, UK, Australia and many more), updated every 60 Minutes.



Our Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) Database is based on an agenda of worldwide elections, covers more than 1M records and includes Judges, Military Personnel and close associates.



More than 8k data records from Interpol and FBI, included for free in our Sanctions Data subscription.



Use our RESTful API, our Exporter Option or one of our pre-built integrations for SAP, BigID or API3.



Our API including all backend systems are Enterprise Ready with a 99.99%+ uptime and average response time < 200ms.



Leading screening technology based on the latest achievements in NLP and AI. Fewer false positives while preventing false negatives.



Extensive API documentation available on Swagger and our Knowledge Base. We also provide a full featured Sandbox environment for your testing



We know your pain & needs as a Start-Up. Our support and admin processes guarantee the responsiveness and flexibility you need.



Try our free sanctions check on our website, our sandbox environment or sign up for a personal free trial.Do you offer high-volume discounts?

Yes, we provide high-volume discounts for enterprise customers. Just schedule a call with our Customer Support team to discuss your use case and get an individual pricing proposal.

Yes, we provide high-volume discounts for enterprise customers. Just schedule a call with our Customer Support team to discuss your use case and get an individual pricing proposal.

How can I test sanctions.io before subscribing?

We offer several ways for our customers to test our data and technology before committing to a subscription - please refer to "

The average API response time is about 250ms

Yes, you can create your own Sandbox tokens and use these to test your integration using our Sandbox data. This will not consume any #API calls of your subscription but allow you to test with our production environment.

Do you have a Data Protection Policy in place?

Yes, we do have a Data Protection Policy in place which ensures that sanctions.io LLC:

If you'd like to know more, please reach out to us to request a copy of our Data Protection Policy.

Do you store our search requests with clear data on your systems?


Transaction Screening via API 
No, we don't store any clear data on our systems. What we do is after the API request has been processed, we hash all your data and only store those hashed values. With that, you can still retrieve your historic searches (time stamps, parameter settings, etc.) but without any clear data.

Batch Screening
We keep batch screening data and results for a limited period on our systems after which all data are automatically deleted. Customers can delete all data at any time.

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