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The largest open database of company data in the world, with data from over 140 registries. OpenCorporates is a global database of companies, their directors and regulatory filings. We provide links to OpenCorporates for entities that exist both in our database and in the OpenCorporates database. These links can be used to explore more detail about sanctioned companies. OpenCorporates customers with bulk data or API access can also use the OpenCorporates URL to integrate both datasets, for example to build an in-house knowledge graph with sanctions and company control information. Note: as of May 2022, we have only linked some sanctioned companies to OpenCorporates.

In the future, we also hope to create links regarding directors and beneficial owners of companies, for example in cases where the owner is a politicially exposed person (PEP). This dataset contains entities from a larger database that is used to enrich the data in OpenSanctions with additional details and connections. We only include entities from the source where there is a relevant connection to the entities in the main OpenSanctions database (e.g. to a sanctions target or a politician). Good news for users of the open data ecosystem! OpenSanctions, the open database of sanctions targets and persons of interest, has started mapping sanctioned entities in its database back to company records in OpenCorporates – so their users can explore more detail about...

Everyone can use the OpenCorporates URL to view the related company information on the OpenCorporates website. But for OpenCorporates’ Bulk Data or API clients, it is even more powerful as you will now be able to easily integrate and analyse both datasets without entity resolution challenges – for example to... And it doesn’t stop there: as Open Ownership also links their data to the OpenCorporates’ dataset – information on beneficial ownership of companies can be quickly integrated too! In this blog post, we’ll explore how open data about sanctioned entities and persons of interest helps business and society, and how this is just the latest enhancement of a wider open data ecosystem... Both OpenSanctions and OpenCorporates provide powerful data building blocks for compliance. By linking our databases up, we make it easier to track assets or assess exposure.

The clue is in the name: We’ve modeled OpenSanctions after OpenCorporates, the open database of companies, in some important ways. That inspiration is not limited to making sanctions lists publicly searchable and viewable, but also includes putting a focus on clear data provenance, and using commercial licensing as a means to create a sustainable... So it’s only natural that our projects should aim to complement each other. The key requirement for that is integration: we need to make it easy to use the connections between both databases, for example to help analysts continue their research of a sanctioned company by checking... That’s why we’ve started an effort to create explicit links between the two databases. Over 1,500 companies are now linked up, thanks to the easy-to-use OpenCorporates API and our data enrichment framework.

Take German energy policy wunderkind Nord Stream 2, for example: its OpenSanctions profile now links to the company’s corporate details and records. There’s a photo of the exact moment I first saw a demo of OpenCorporates in 2011, presented by founder Chris Taggart. Good news for users of the open data ecosystem! OpenSanctions, the open database of sanctions targets and persons of interest, has started mapping sanctioned entities in its database back to… Using the OpenSanctions integration for Maltego, investigators can identify which persons, companies, vessels or crypto wallets are on a sanctions list, or linked to a sanctioned entity, as well as to see if a... Its fully auditable open-source intelligence platform features rich profiles for targeted entities including known aliases, biographical details, phone numbers, emails, and links to other entities, including family, associates, business directorships, ownerships and other links.

OpenSanctions enables investigators to find person of interest and investigate them and their associations thoroughly. OpenSanctions can be used as a starting point for mapping out linked assets—in particular company holdings and other activities—by combining the integration with company-centric Transforms for OpenCorporates, OCCRP Aleph, Orbis and Maltego’s many other... OpenSanctions helps you identify sanctioned people and companies, politicians and their networks. The project has its roots in the investigative journalism community and its goal is to democratize access to due diligence information and enable everyone to conduct in-depth research. By combining data from more than 50 sources, OpenSanctions have built a rich dataset of criminal networks, sanctioned companies, their managers and subsidiaries, political office-holders (PEPs), and their associates. They query a broad range of third-party company databases to enrich the source data and update their data daily.

Learn more about OpenSanctions on their website: https://www.opensanctions.org. OpenSanctions helps investigators find leads, allows companies to manage risk and enables technologists to build data-driven products. 2,146,844 entities · 309 data sources · updated 2025-10-31 · bulk data · screening tool OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Business and commercial users must either acquire a data license to use our high-quality dataset, or subscribe to our pay-as-you-go API service. Updates from OpenSanctions, including new features, technical deep dives, and analysis.

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Using the OpenSanctions integration for Maltego, investigators can identify which persons, companies, vessels or crypto wallets are on a sanctions list, or linked to a sanctioned Entity, as well as to see if a... Being a fully auditable open-source intelligence platform, OpenSanctions features rich profiles for targeted Entities including known aliases, biographical details, phone numbers, emails, and links to other Entities, including associates, business directorships, ownerships and other... OpenSanctions enables investigators to find person of interest and investigate them and their associations thoroughly. OpenSanctions can be used as a starting point for mapping out linked assets—in particular company holdings and other activities by combining the integration with company-centric Transforms for OpenCorporates, OCCRP Aleph, Orbis and Maltego’s many... Updates from OpenSanctions, including new features, technical deep dives, and analysis. Rosetta, not Roulette: Improving sanctions screening results with our new logic-v2 matcher

Tags: Yente, Matcher · Published: 2025-09-15 With yente 5.0, we’re introducing a new screening algorithm, logic-v2. This new system reflects feedback from our users and introduces a more precise, explainable, and culturally-aware way to match names of people and companies. OpenSanctions and Quantifind join forces to deliver sanctions risk prevention tech

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