PEP & SANCTION API

API Doc

The NameScan API is organized around REST. Our API has predictable, resource-oriented URLs, and uses HTTP response codes to indicate API errors. JSON is returned by all API responses, including errors, although our API libraries convert responses to appropriate language-specific objects. API Doc

Developer Centre

The NameScan API Developer centre is designed to help with testing the API using a real API key. To make the API testing easier, each account has a test and production key. Requests made with test API Key never hit your credit and are not saved in your scan history. Before beginning your test, you should get your API key. Developer Centre

NameScan API

Our Standard Check data include an extensive coverage of global Sanction lists and a consolidated global PEP list, which is growing and updated on a daily basis. The data is available via API only and covers the most important Sanction lists including but not limited to:
  • United Nations Sanctions (UN)
  • Australian Sanctions
  • Bureau of Industry and Security (US)
  • EU Financial Sanctions
  • Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (Canada)
  • OFAC - Specially Designated Nationals (SDN)
  • UK Financial Sanctions (HMT)
  • US Consolidated Sanctions
  • Department of State, AECA Debarred List (US)
  • Department of State, Nonproliferation Sanctions (US)
  • INTERPOL Wanted List
  • Switzerland Sanction List - SECO
Premium Checks against Thomson Reuters World-Check data are not available via API.
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