Sanctions & Blocked Parties
U.S. and international sanctions programs, blocked-party lists, and designated persons maintained by government and multilateral authorities.
Services · Sanctions Screening
We check individuals and entities against U.S. and international sanctions, restricted-party, enforcement, and watchlist sources — so compliance and diligence teams can spot exposure early and decide with clearer evidence.
Built for commercial & investigative diligence — not employment screening
Coverage
One search across a broad set of U.S. and international sanctions, restricted-party, regulatory, enforcement, law-enforcement, and watchlist sources. Scope follows your risk profile and geography — we do not invent guarantees the data cannot support.
U.S. and international sanctions programs, blocked-party lists, and designated persons maintained by government and multilateral authorities.
Export-control, denied-party, debarment, and other restricted-party lists that can block or condition a deal.
Politically exposed persons and related indicators — useful when ownership, principals, or counterparties sit near public power.
Applicable government watchlists tied to terrorism, national security, and other designated high-risk activity.
Sources associated with financial crime, money laundering, regulatory enforcement, and related oversight activity.
Screening across international government bodies, sanctions authorities, and multilateral organizations — not U.S.-only.
Coverage extends beyond OFAC. Exact source sets are selected to the engagement; a list hit is an indicator for review, not an automatic determination.
When it matters
Use it when a counterparty, vendor, leader, or transaction could inherit sanctions, restricted-party, or watchlist exposure — alone or beside deeper investigative work.
Evaluate targets, sellers, and key principals before capital moves. Pair with Business Due Diligence when the entity itself needs a wider review.
Onboard suppliers and service providers with clearer restricted-party visibility. See Vendor & Third-Party Due Diligence for layered packages.
Understand the people behind the deal — executives, directors, beneficial owners. Combine with Executive Background Checks when identity and records depth matter.
Cross-border counterparties often sit under multiple regimes. Screening helps flag exposure before contracts and payments lock in.
Screen companies, partnerships, and related entities alongside ownership maps — not just a single named individual.
Lists change. Re-screen existing relationships when geography, ownership, or risk appetite shifts — or on a defined cadence.
Delivery
Straightforward intake, multi-source screening, and clear output — with match discipline so a name proximity does not become a false alarm.
Confirm who and what to screen — individuals, entities, ownership links — and the jurisdictions that matter.
Search across sanctions, restricted-party, enforcement, and watchlist sources aligned to the engagement.
Compare identifiers — names, aliases, DOB, IDs, affiliations, nationality, entity structure — before calling a hit.
Clear findings for compliance and diligence teams, with notes on what warrants further investigative follow-up.
Match discipline
List data is noisy. We treat proximity as a signal to verify — using available identifiers — so you get fewer false positives and a clearer path to escalate only when the record supports it. When court or entity records are needed next, see Court & Public Records Research.
Common questions
No. OFAC and U.S. programs are part of coverage, but screening also reaches international sanctions, restricted and denied parties, enforcement and financial-crime sources, terrorism/national-security watchlists, and PEP-related indicators — selected for the engagement.
Compliance, legal, risk, investment, and diligence teams evaluating counterparties, vendors, leadership, ownership, or transactions. True Court Screening is not positioned as a consumer employment background check or CRA product for hiring.
Either. Many clients run it as a focused check; others combine it with executive background checks, business due diligence, vendor packages, or public-records research when the decision needs more than a list result.
We review available identifiers before treating it as confirmed. Output flags what matched, what remains uncertain, and whether deeper investigative or records work is warranted — a list proximity alone is not a final determination.
Next step
Tell us who you are evaluating and where they operate — we will help set the right source scope.
Also reviewing the company? Business Due Diligence →