Which sanctions lists does Prometiam cover?

EU consolidated list, UN sanctions list, OFAC SDN, UK OFSI consolidated list, the French Registre national des gels, plus the full US Consolidated Screening List (BIS Entity List, Denied Persons, ITAR debarred, and more) — 44,000+ active entities. All six sources are queried in a single /sanctions/screen call.

What kind of matching is used?

Trigram fuzzy match — robust to spelling variants, transliteration, and punctuation differences. Each match returns a confidence score (0–100) so you can tune false-positive rate via the threshold parameter (50–100, default 80).

How fresh are the lists?

All six sources are re-downloaded daily from the official sources. The /sanctions/changes endpoint exposes the resulting delta feed (new listings, delistings, renames), and watchlists can push webhook alerts the day a change is detected.

Can I screen entities (companies) or only persons?

Both. The entity_type parameter accepts person, entity, vessel, or any (default). Most use cases query against any.

How does this fit into a KYB pipeline?

Run /sanctions/screen on the legal-entity name and on each current officer name returned by /companies/{id}. See /use-cases/kyb-onboarding for the full pattern with code.

Is this included on the free tier?

No — full sanctions screening is a Professional-tier scope (€29.99/month, 100,000 calls/month). The Starter tier includes sanctions monitoring (watchlists and the change feed, 10 entries) plus registry-data scopes.

Sanctions Screening API

Prometiam's /sanctions/screen endpoint screens a name against six official sources in one REST call: the EU consolidated list, the UN sanctions list, OFAC SDN, the UK OFSI consolidated list, the French Registre national des gels, and the full US Consolidated Screening List of export-control lists (BIS Entity List, Denied Persons, ITAR debarred, and more) — 44,000+ active entities, refreshed daily. This is sanctions plus US export-control screening; PEP screening is available in beta for Spain only (no relatives or close associates) via ?include_pep=true, and adverse-media is not covered.

The problem it solves

Sanctions screening is often implemented poorly: only one list checked, exact-match-only screening that misses transliteration variants, lists refreshed weekly, no confidence scores, no match explanation. Prometiam does the six-source union, the trigram fuzzy match, and the confidence scoring so the integrator just sets a threshold and reads matches.

How it works

Trigram fuzzy matching robust to spelling, transliteration, and punctuation; each hit returns a confidence score from 0 to 100.
A tunable threshold parameter (50–100, default 80) trades false positives against false negatives.
Screen persons, entities, or vessels via the entity_type parameter, with optional date-of-birth and country disambiguators.
Each hit returns the source list, matched name or alias, and a link to the official entry for a defensible audit trail.
The /sanctions/watchlist endpoint re-screens counterparty names against every daily list change and fires a webhook on a hit.

Pricing

Full sanctions screening is a Professional-tier scope (€29.99/month, 100,000 calls/month). It is not on the free tier, which includes registry-data scopes only. Standalone vendors like ComplyAdvantage or World-Check start much higher but add full PEP coverage including relatives and close associates, plus adverse-media, which Prometiam does not provide.

Frequently asked questions

Which sanctions lists does Prometiam cover?: EU consolidated list, UN sanctions list, OFAC SDN, UK OFSI consolidated list, the French Registre national des gels, plus the full US Consolidated Screening List (BIS Entity List, Denied Persons, ITAR debarred, and more) — 44,000+ active entities. All six sources are queried in a single /sanctions/screen call.
What kind of matching is used?: Trigram fuzzy match — robust to spelling variants, transliteration, and punctuation differences. Each match returns a confidence score (0–100) so you can tune false-positive rate via the threshold parameter (50–100, default 80).
How fresh are the lists?: All six sources are re-downloaded daily from the official sources. The /sanctions/changes endpoint exposes the resulting delta feed (new listings, delistings, renames), and watchlists can push webhook alerts the day a change is detected.
Can I screen entities (companies) or only persons?: Both. The entity_type parameter accepts person, entity, vessel, or any (default). Most use cases query against any.
How does this fit into a KYB pipeline?: Run /sanctions/screen on the legal-entity name and on each current officer name returned by /companies/{id}. See /use-cases/kyb-onboarding for the full pattern with code.
Is this included on the free tier?: No — full sanctions screening is a Professional-tier scope (€29.99/month, 100,000 calls/month). The Starter tier includes sanctions monitoring (watchlists and the change feed, 10 entries) plus registry-data scopes.