Search the U.S. Treasury OFAC SDN list and Consolidated Sanctions List with fuzzy matching, aliases, DOBs and IDs. No signup required for basic checks.
Free public OFAC search · No account needed · Audit PDFs available with sign-up.
Direct ingestion from official Treasury feeds — re-synced every few hours.
Specially Designated Nationals & Blocked Persons — the core OFAC sanctions list covering individuals, entities, vessels and aircraft.
Non-SDN programs including SSI (Sectoral Sanctions), FSE (Foreign Sanctions Evaders), PLC and 13599 lists.
Cross-check OFAC hits against EU Consolidated, UK OFSI and UN Security Council lists for global coverage.
Catches transliterations, aliases and typos that exact-text search misses.
Re-synced from OFAC's official XML/CSV feeds every few hours.
Timestamped reports for every search — attach directly to your KYC file.
AI-generated risk summaries explain why a person was designated.
Use the full legal name when you have it. Partial names work — fuzzy matching will surface variants.
Each result shows a confidence score, list source (SDN, Consolidated, EU, UK, UN), aliases, DOBs and IDs.
Attach the report to your KYC or onboarding file as evidence the check was performed.
OFAC adds and removes designations weekly. Re-screen high-risk counterparties at least monthly.
The OFAC SDN (Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) list is published by the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control. It names individuals, companies, vessels and aircraft whose assets are blocked and with whom U.S. persons are generally prohibited from doing business.
Yes. SanctionsScreening offers a free public OFAC search with no signup required. Sign up for higher daily limits, PDF audit reports, and EU/UK/UN coverage.
OFAC updates the SDN list several times per week as new designations are issued. We re-sync the official OFAC feed every few hours so results reflect the latest data.
Yes. We ingest both the SDN list and the Consolidated Sanctions List — including SSI, FSE, PLC and Executive Order 13599 programs.
Fuzzy matching catches name variants, transliterations and typos — matching "Vladimir Putin" to "Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin" or "Osama Bin Laden" to "Usama bin Ladin". Exact-string search misses these and creates compliance blind spots.
All U.S. persons and companies — banks, fintechs, law firms, exporters, real estate brokers, crypto exchanges and marketplaces — must comply with OFAC sanctions. Foreign firms with USD exposure or U.S. counterparties typically screen as well.