SanctionsLookup serves as a real-time API for OFAC screening, tailored for money service businesses, payment processors, online marketplaces, and fintech firms, with sanctions lists that update every 15 minutes.
This tool verifies individuals, entities, vessels, aircraft, and cryptocurrency wallet addresses against the U.S. Treasury's SDN and Consolidated Non-SDN lists, incorporating fuzzy matching to account for errors, aliases, and variations in transliteration from languages such as Cyrillic, Arabic, and Chinese.
By utilizing hard identifiers like passport numbers and national IDs, along with attributes such as date of birth and address, it effectively minimizes false positives; results include a confidence score and a clear explanation of each match.
The API operates via REST/JSON, ensuring responses are delivered in under 200 milliseconds for up to 20 subjects per request.
Pricing begins at $49 per month for 5,000 screenings without the requirement of an annual contract and offers 100 free trial screenings without needing a credit card.
While it focuses exclusively on U.S. OFAC lists, SanctionsLookup also provides a complimentary OFAC search tool and maintains a public enforcement database that details over 1,000 actions taken since 2003, making it a valuable resource for financial compliance.