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Conduct thorough Sanctions checks, PEP screenings, and Adverse Media searches with access to an extensive range of official government databases from around the world.
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Does Tranche 2 apply to you?
From 1 July 2026, AML/CTF obligations extend to gatekeeper professions. If your business provides these designated services, you now need to screen your customers.
Everything you need to screen and verify a customer
A single scan checks a person or business against PEP, Sanctions and Adverse Media at once, with Know Your Business and ID Verification to complete your due diligence.
PEP screening
Politically Exposed Persons, their relatives and close associates (RCAs), worldwide.
Sanctions
OFAC, UN, EU, UK, Australian and other major sanctions regimes, updated daily.
Adverse media
Negative news and reputational risk from thousands of curated global sources.
Know Your Business
Verify corporate entities, ownership and directors for full KYB due diligence.
ID Verification
Match a customer’s government ID document to a live selfie in seconds.
Verify identities and businesses, end to end
Complete your customer due diligence in one platform: confirm real people and uncover who really owns a company.
ID Verification
Confirm a customer is who they claim to be by matching their government ID document to a live selfie, in seconds.
- Document authentication: validate passports, driver’s licences and national IDs
- Biometric liveness: match a live selfie to the ID photo to stop impersonation
- Global coverage: supports identity documents from around the world
Know Your Business
Verify a company from official primary sources and identify the people behind it, including its ultimate beneficial owners.
- Directors & UBOs identified: reveal who ultimately owns and controls the entity
- Ownership structure: map shareholders and corporate hierarchy
- Primary-source data: sourced directly from official company registries
From a name to a compliant result in three steps
Enter a name or business
Type a person or company into the dashboard, upload a batch, or send it via the API.
We screen 20,000+ sources
NameScan checks PEP, Sanctions and Adverse Media across official databases worldwide in real time.
Get an audit-ready report
Receive a clear risk rating with match detail you can act on, store and evidence to regulators.
Run free searches every month, no card required
Run real screenings in your browser with a free account. Explore each check type below.
Screen for Politically Exposed Persons and their close associates against our proprietary database.
Try now →Check a name against major global sanctions lists and watchlists, updated daily.
Try now →Surface negative news and reputational red flags from global media sources.
Try now →Built for compliance teams and the developers who support them
Proprietary, daily-updated data
Our own consolidated database of sanctioned and politically exposed individuals, refreshed every day.
Developer-first API
A clean RESTful API takes integration from months to days, so onboarding automation ships fast. Visit the Developer Centre →
Audit-ready reports
Every scan produces a clear, timestamped result you can store and show regulators as evidence.
// POST /v3/person { "name": "Alex Sample", "dob": "1974", "datasets": ["pep", "sanctions", "media"] } // → 200 OK · risk: "review" · matches: 4
The request above is a sample. The API documentation gives the endpoints and the fields.
Your customer due diligence obligations, handled
Verify who your customer is
ID Verification and Know Your Business confirm real people and real businesses, including beneficial owners, before you act.
Screen against watchlists
Check every customer for PEP, Sanctions and Adverse Media, the core of ongoing customer due diligence.
Keep audit-ready records
Every check is timestamped and stored as evidence you can produce for AUSTRAC.
- Identity verified
- PEP & Sanctions screened
- Adverse media checked
- Record stored for audit
What customers say
What businesses like yours say
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NameScan’s own proprietary database, built for startups, sole traders and businesses that need essential, reliable screening.
See Emerald packages →Sourced from reliable third parties, the Sapphire database is designed for businesses that need deeper due diligence and richer data coverage.
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