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

Dow Jones Risk & Compliance is an enterprise data provider built around global PEP, relatives-and-close-associates and adverse-media screening, sold through a sales-led demo. Prometiam is a narrower, self-serve layer: official registry data for every live country plus sanctions-list screening (beta) from a 14-day free trial — no adverse media, no global PEP.

Dow Jones figures read from dowjones.com on 15 September 2026

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 European countries plus sanctions screening (beta) against the EU, UN, OFAC, UK, Australia (DFAT) and French lists and the US Consolidated Screening List, with public prices and a 14-day free trial. It has no adverse media, no global PEP, no state-owned-enterprise data.

At a glance

Dow Jones column: dowjones.com/business-intelligence/risk/ and its sanctions-risk, financial-crime, data-feeds-apis, advanced-screening-monitoring and third-party product pages, read 15 September 2026; no page shows a price. Prometiam column: /pricing.

Who should pick Dow Jones Risk & Compliance

• Your compliance program needs PEP screening with relatives and close associates across many countries — Dow Jones states global coverage of senior public officials, their relatives and close associates, organised into occupation categories modelled on international AML guidelines — not a Spain-only beta set.
• You need adverse-media screening in the same platform as sanctions and PEP data: Dow Jones draws on Factiva's 33,000+ sources in 33 languages across 200 countries and screens them with AI. Prometiam has no adverse media at all.
• You screen for state-owned-enterprise exposure alongside sanctions and PEP data. Prometiam has no equivalent dataset.
• You want data delivered through enterprise integrations — data feeds, APIs, partner integrations or the RiskCenter web tool — with account teams in over 40 countries and a sales-managed onboarding, not a self-serve key.

Who should pick Prometiam

• You need official registry data — company status, officers where published, filings — for any country the API covers, not a screening-only feed.
• You want to see the price and start today: a 14-day trial, no demo request, then €9.99, €29.99 or €99.99 a month with no contract.
• Your sanctions-screening need is the EU, UN, OFAC, UK, Australia (DFAT) and French lists plus the US Consolidated Screening List (beta) — not global PEP, RCAs or adverse media.
• You want to watch a portfolio for status changes or sanctions matches: POST /monitor sends a signed webhook for every live country except France and Chile.

Scope limits, stated plainly

• Sanctions screening is beta: list coverage is still being completed, and results should not be a sanctions program’s sole control until Prometiam announces general availability.
• PEP screening is beta and 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, in beta or otherwise.
• Beneficial ownership is UK PSC register data only. Every other registry returns officers or directors, which is not the same as beneficial ownership. GLEIF Level-2 gives parents and children for entities that hold an LEI.
• Monitoring (POST /monitor) covers every live country except France and Chile.

Beyond the registry record

Two derived signals, neither of them a rating. Both are dated facts carrying the source they came from, so whoever reviews your file can check them.

• Companies that stopped filing. A company that quietly stops trading rarely dissolves; the register notices first. The registry_compliance flag returns that state in one shape for Spain (provisional closure of the registry sheet), the United Kingdom (a strike-off proposal, or annual accounts overdue), Ireland (the strike-off list) and Norway (compulsory liquidation). Read it on GET /companies/{id}?include=risk_flags, or list those companies with risk_flag_type=registry_compliance. It is a compliance signal, not an insolvency: read it together with status.
• Public contracts, and the buyer behind them. GET /procurement/awards returns public-contract awards from Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland and Norway by supplier, buyer, identifier, CPV code and date, linked to the supplier’s registry record where the identifier resolves. GET /procurement/buyer/{id} scores the contracting body itself: the probability that its next award draws a single bid, and the probability that a supplier it awards to enters insolvency within two years.

Both are ordinary REST calls on the published price and included in the 14-day trial. Procurement awards cover Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland and Norway (Ireland, Poland and Norway above the EU thresholds only), the buyer scores are Spain and France and in beta, and a score is a prompt to look, never a finding of wrongdoing.

FAQ

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 500 credits over 14 days, 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, Australia (DFAT) and French lists plus the US Consolidated Screening List (beta) alongside official registry data for every live country. 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 seven named sources — the EU consolidated list, the UN list, OFAC SDN, the UK Sanctions List (FCDO), the Australian DFAT Consolidated List, 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.

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