Daily Automated Updates
A compliance system that is not current is a compliance system that does not work.
Beta version. Sanctions lists are subject to change by their issuing authorities.
Why Currency Matters
Sanctions lists change daily. A system that doesn't keep up is a liability.
Sanctions lists are living documents. OFAC can designate a new actor at any time. The EU amends its consolidated list with regulatory cycles. The UN Security Council can act on an emergency basis.
A screening system that operates on week-old data misses designations that occurred since the last update. That is not a technical limitation — it is a compliance failure with regulatory and legal consequences.
Nightly Schedule
All ten sources updated every night in a staggered sequence.
All ten sources updated every night in a staggered sequence. A safety check at a defined cutoff time forces the cascade if any import has not completed. No cycle is silently skipped.
Sources Updated Every Night
- EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List
- UK FCDO Sanctions List
- UN Security Council Consolidated List
- US OFAC Consolidated (Non-SDN) List
- Canada SEMA Consolidated List
- Swiss SECO Sanctions List
- US OFAC SDN List
- US UFLPA Entity List (updated weekly)
- Australia DFAT Sanctions List (updated weekly)
- Israel NBCTF Terror List (updated weekly)
Each source is downloaded, hash-checked, parsed, and imported independently. Failures in one source do not block others.
Six-Step Import Pipeline
Each source follows the same deterministic pipeline. No variation. No shortcuts.
The pipeline is sequential and atomic per source. A failure at any step is logged with full context — no silent data loss, no partial imports that corrupt the registry state.
All Six Steps
- 1. Download & Integrity Check: SHA-256 hash compared against previous import. Unchanged: skip. Changed: process. This prevents unnecessary registry churn and preserves version chain integrity.
- 2. Parsing: Source-specific parsers extract every entry into canonical format. Names classified as primary, spelling variant, or alias. Entity types mapped to shared taxonomy.
- 3. Registry Import: Each entry stored as a versioned listing. Every field change tracked. Content hash determines whether a new version is warranted.
- 4. Entity Resolution: Cross-source deduplication merges same actors across lists. Ten guards prevent false merges. Borderline cases held for manual review.
- 5. Delisting Detection: Entries absent in current file but present previously — marked delisted. Never deleted. The full designation history is preserved and queryable.
- 6. Cascade Completion: Alias propagation, global screening index rebuild, AI change report, and self-verification all run after the last source completes.
EUR-Lex Integration
For EU sanctions: the pipeline goes further. Amendment chain tracking, per entity.
For EU sanctions, the pipeline goes further. The system monitors the EUR-Lex SPARQL endpoint for amendments to tracked EU regulations. When a new consolidated version is detected, the system walks the amendment chain, extracts current annex entries, and links each entity to its legal basis — regulation article, annex position, and Official Journal reference.
What EUR-Lex Integration Provides
- Amendment Chain Traversal: Each EU regulation is amended over time. The system follows the chain from the base regulation through every amendment to the current consolidated version.
- Per-Entity Legal Basis: Each entity is linked to the specific amendment that first designated them and the amendments that modified their listing.
- Official Journal Reference: Regulation CELEX number and Official Journal citation available for every EU-listed entity.
- Freshness Monitoring: A daily HTTP check on EUR-Lex consolidated URLs detects new versions within hours of publication. No polling lag.
Sanctions Screening Built to Be Audited.
Beta access is free and includes full screening functionality across all official sources, the complete review workflow, and audit-ready exports.
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