Dow Jones Risk & Compliance alternative: registry data and sanctions-list screening, not a global PEP suite

TL;DR

Dow Jones Risk & Compliance is an enterprise data provider for sanctions, PEP, relatives-and-close-associates and adverse-media screening, sold through a sales-led demo and quote. Prometiam is narrower: official registry data for six European countries plus sanctions screening (beta) against the EU, UN, OFAC, UK OFSI and French lists and the US Consolidated Screening List, priced from a free tier. It has no adverse media, no global PEP, no state-owned-enterprise data.

Pick Dow Jones Risk & Compliance if

You need PEP screening with relatives and close associates across many countries, adverse-media screening in the same platform, state-owned-enterprise exposure data, or a named enterprise vendor delivered through APIs, batch feeds or a case-management partner with a sales-managed onboarding.

Pick Prometiam if

You need official registry data for Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland or Norway alongside sanctions-list screening (beta) against the EU, UN, OFAC, UK OFSI and French lists plus the US Consolidated Screening List, want to see the price before you start, and do not need global PEP, RCAs or adverse media.

Scope limits on the Prometiam side

Sanctions screening is beta. PEP screening is beta, Spain only, sourced from Wikidata by occupation, with no relatives or close associates — it does not by itself satisfy a full FATF PEP obligation. Prometiam has no adverse-media screening and no state-owned-enterprise data. Beneficial ownership is UK PSC register data only; other registries return officers, not beneficial owners.

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Beyond the registry record

Two derived signals on the Prometiam side, neither of them a rating: registry_compliance, which marks companies still on the register that stopped meeting their filing duties (Spain, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Norway), and public procurement — Spanish contract awards by supplier, buyer, tax id, CPV code and date, plus a beta score for the contracting body itself in Spain and France. Both are dated facts with their source, on the published price and in the free tier; a score is a prompt to look, never a finding of wrongdoing. Public-buyer risk · Procurement screening

At a glance

PrometiamDow Jones Risk & Compliance
CountriesES, FR, GB, IE, PL, NO — official registriesGlobal — "more than 4 million records on entities and individuals"; due-diligence reports by analysts fluent in over 60 languages
DataRegistry facts, officers where published, corporate events (ES/FR/GB), sanctions & export-control screening (beta), PEP beta (Spain only)Sanctions lists, PEPs with relatives and close associates, adverse media from Factiva (33,000+ sources, 33 languages, 200 countries), state-owned companies, beneficial ownership sourced from Dun & Bradstreet
UpdatesDaily (ES, FR, IE, PL, NO); UK monthly bulk plus daily deltaSanctions lists "continuously monitored and updated"; no cadence figure published
Entry price€0 for 1,000 calls/month, no cardNot published — "Connect with an expert"
Paid plans€9.99 · €29.99 · €99.99/month, cancel any timeNot published; every product page ends in a demo request
ContractNone below Enterprise; cancel any timeSales-negotiated
MonitoringPOST /monitor webhooks — Spain, Ireland, PolandRiskCenter monitoring; a "high-frequency data feed for real-time screening" of payments
Sanctions screeningEU, UN, OFAC, UK OFSI, French gels + US Consolidated Screening List — betaCore product — lists produced by an in-house research team, with international and domestic coverage
Beneficial ownershipUK PSC register only; other countries return officers, not beneficial owners; GLEIF Level-2 parents for LEI holdersDun & Bradstreet UBO data (270 million companies, per the RiskCenter Financial Crime page), direct and indirect ownership
Data residencyEU (Frankfurt)Not stated on the pages read

Frequently asked questions

How much does Dow Jones Risk & Compliance cost?
Dow Jones does not publish self-serve pricing for Risk & Compliance; access is arranged by requesting a demo and a quote. Every product page on dowjones.com ends in a Connect-with-an-expert or Request-a-demo call to action with no figure (read 15 September 2026). Prometiam publishes its prices: free for 1,000 calls a month, then €9.99, €29.99 and €99.99 a month, plus a custom Enterprise tier.
Does Prometiam cover PEP and adverse media like Dow Jones?
Not to the same depth. Prometiam’s PEP screening is beta, Spain only, sourced from Wikidata by occupation, with no relatives or close associates. Prometiam has no adverse-media screening and no state-owned-enterprise data. A program with a full FATF PEP obligation, or one that screens adverse media, should keep a provider like Dow Jones for that part of the work.
Can I switch from Dow Jones Risk & Compliance to Prometiam?
Only for the registry-verification and sanctions-list-screening part of a program. Prometiam screens the EU, UN, OFAC SDN, UK OFSI and French lists plus the US Consolidated Screening List (beta) alongside official registry data for six countries. If a program’s PEP, RCA or adverse-media obligation is what Dow Jones covers today, that part stays with Dow Jones or a similar provider.
Does Prometiam screen the same sanctions lists as Dow Jones?
Not necessarily the same aggregation. Prometiam screens six named sources — the EU consolidated list, the UN list, OFAC SDN, UK OFSI, the French Registre des gels, and the full US Consolidated Screening List (beta) — with a match_score on every hit. Dow Jones produces its sanctions lists with an in-house research team and states international and domestic coverage that is continuously monitored and updated (dowjones.com, read 15 September 2026); it publishes no list count.