Sanctions Screening Services
Sanctions screening and tracking business relations are more important than ever. Don’t rely on search engines for your sanctions screening process. Instead, employ our comprehensive and high-quality sanctions screening software. Our tool consolidates sanctions from all relevant bodies in one place, allowing for a smoother screening process and easier regulatory compliance.
Trusted by Companies Worldwide
How Does Sanctions Screening Work?
1. Check Against Global Sanctions Lists
Ondato instantly screens your clients or partners against the most reliable global watchlists, including UN, EU, and OFAC sanctions. All data is refreshed every three hours to ensure accuracy and compliance.
2. Identify and Verify Matches
Our intelligent matching system analyses results to reduce false positives. You receive clear, precise insights about potential risks, so your team can make fast and confident compliance decisions.
3. Record and Act with Confidence
All screening results are securely stored and easy to access for audits or regulatory reporting. Take immediate action when potential sanctions risks are detected and stay fully compliant with AML regulations.
Thousands of Global Sanctions Lists
Safeguard your company’s reputation and operations by staying compliant sanctions screening requirements. Ondato’s rigorous sanctions screening solution provides instant access to the world’s most authoritative watchlists, including UN, EU, and OFAC sanctions, allowing you to identify high-risk individuals, businesses, and organisations before they can cause harm. By turning complex AML requirements into a seamless process, Ondato empowers you to meet regulatory standards while proactively preventing financial crime and ensuring that every partnership you form is safe, compliant, and trustworthy.
Sanctions Data Updated Every 3 Hours
Sanctions lists change constantly, and missing even one update can expose your business to major compliance risks. Ondato’s solution ensures you never fall behind by refreshing sanctions data every three hours, around the clock. Our intelligent monitoring system automatically tracks new entries, alerts you to any relevant changes, and helps you stay compliant with minimal effort. Whether you’re performing a one-time check or ongoing monitoring, you can rely on Ondato to provide real-time, accurate information that keeps you aligned with global regulations and fully protected from fines, penalties, or reputational damage.
Simple, Automated, and Scalable Screening
Ondato’s user-friendly interface and AI-powered tools make sanctions screening efficient and easy, even at scale. Access and analyse vast amounts of data from multiple sources in seconds, and configure the system to match your compliance needs. Set up automatic monitoring, streamline manual checks, and reduce false positives while maintaining full control over screening parameters. Designed to save time and costs, Ondato’s technology helps compliance teams stay efficient, responsive, and confident that no risky entity slips through the cracks.
Take Care of Your Full Compliance Process
Adverse Media Screening
Instantly detect risk-related news pieces about your clients and partners. Our system scans 6.5 million articles a day to deliver accurate and high-quality information.
PEP Screening
Build trustworthy relationships with our high-quality Politically Exposed Persons screening and monitoring. Get daily updates and accurate insight on risk scores from over 16 million PEP profiles.
Business Reports Screening
Collect and verify information about business customers from 198 countries. Additionally, find the ultimate beneficial owners from 50 countries.
Business Information Monitoring
Don't miss out on any detail. Our business information monitoring solution ensures that you are always up-to-date with the newest customer information.
Tailored to Your Industry
Financial Institutions
Banks, neobanks, and fintechs face increasing regulatory pressure to stay compliant with global sanctions. Ondato enables financial institutions to automate sanctions checks across all client types: individuals, businesses, and ultimate beneficial owners. With direct integration into global watchlists such as OFAC, EU, and UN, and continuous updates every three hours, your compliance team can instantly identify restricted entities, prevent unlawful transactions, and maintain AML and eIDAS compliance with confidence.
Insurance
For insurers, staying compliant with sanctions regulations is critical to managing exposure and preventing unlawful claims or payouts. Ondato simplifies the process with automated screening of policyholders, intermediaries, and corporate beneficiaries against global sanctions and PEP lists. With continuous monitoring and smart alerts, insurers can detect risks early, ensure compliance across jurisdictions, and protect their operations from fines and reputational damage.
Sharing Economy
Whether you’re managing property rentals, ride-sharing, or freelance platforms, Ondato ensures that every user, partner, or vendor is screened against global sanctions in real time. Identify restricted individuals or companies quickly while maintaining a smooth onboarding experience for legitimate users. Our scalable tools support two-sided marketplaces, keeping your platform safe, compliant, and trusted by users worldwide.
Telecommunications
Telecom operators work with vast networks of partners, resellers, and enterprise clients — making sanctions compliance a must. Ondato enables fast and automated screening of all business relationships, continuously monitoring for any sanctions changes. With full audit trails and seamless API integration, telecom companies can reduce manual reviews, meet regulatory obligations, and protect themselves from engaging with sanctioned entities.
Legal
Law firms, virtual legal service providers, and notary platforms must ensure they are not representing or facilitating services for sanctioned individuals or entities. Ondato’s sanctions screening tools provide precise, up-to-date checks for clients, counterparties, and signatories. With continuous monitoring and detailed audit trails, legal professionals can ensure compliance while protecting their firm’s integrity and client relationships.
Cryptocurrency
For crypto exchanges, wallet providers, and DeFi platforms, sanctions compliance is more complex than ever. Ondato’s solution automates the screening of both individual and business accounts against all global sanctions lists, ensuring adherence to FATF, AMLD5, and local regulations. With real-time monitoring, AI-driven risk scoring, and seamless integration, you can detect high-risk entities instantly, prevent illicit activity, and build trust in your platform’s compliance infrastructure.
Why Clients Trust Ondato
"Ondato has aligned perfectly with our priorities. Through direct collaboration and problem-solving, we have formed a mutually beneficial partnership that has improved integration and allowed us to become a digital-first telco provider in the MENA region. With Ondato’s support, we now offer fully online experiences and have established world-leading registration."
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"We take our clients' experience and privacy very seriously, which is why we chose and continue to work with Ondato. We wanted an efficient identity verification solution, and that is exactly what we got. The client onboarding process we now employ is quick, accurate and easy to understand."
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"Working with Ondato has been a game changer for our AML compliance. Ondato lowered the costs, improved the quality and speed of the Player's onboarding. The cooperation with Ondato's Team is something that has them stand out from their competitors, their high-level of responsiveness and solution-oriented mindset in challenging tasks is a real strong suite."
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"As a leading Lithuanian crowdfunding platform, we have been working with Ondato for their identification services and customer onboarding journey. Ondato has allowed us to simplify the client onboarding process and reduce operational costs thanks to its simple and fast integration. We are delighted to be business partners with Ondato."
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"As fully digital bank for SMEs, we have been working with Ondato since the beginning. We are happy to have a reliable and professional partner for our client’s identification services and bank customer on-boarding journey. Ondato enables us to provide fast and seamless application process for EU member citizens and services to our clients."
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"We started to cooperate with Ondato three years ago. We needed an easy to integrate one-stop-shop solution in order to evaluate customers financial information. Budget and timing were very strict, and they just nailed it."
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"Secure identity check, verification and onboarding is one of the cornerstones for digital services and society in general, during the Lighthouse program Ondato has shown their excellence in developing a real solution tackling this problem."
"Ondato KYC solution allowed us to simplify the client’s onboarding process and reduced our operational costs. It was the simplest and fastest integration that we have ever seen, thanks to advising and to the great support of Ondato team."
"As a specialized online loan bank operating exclusively on the Internet, Ondato has enabled us to work with clients who do not have qualified e. signatures and this has helped us to significantly expand the customer base, increase sales and fulfill its vision of a full-digital bank without paper documents."
"Personal data is a core area we work with, so we had three main requirements from Ondato - bank-level security, compliance with GDPR and other international data protection laws and global database coverage. We have got ourselves a very convenient and tailor-made solution."
"By taking advantage of good feedback and working their a***s off, The team at Ondato has made big strides in a short time period. They were able to transition from a fairly basic consumer facing product to a complex business solution that is of high interest to financial institutions and global payments companies."
"For years, Ondato's automatic identification confirmation has been a reliable and efficient solution to ensure our services' security. Besides that, we appreciate their quick response to our needs and willingness to make improvements or upgrades when necessary. They are also very prompt in resolving any issues that may arise."
Integration Options
Web & Mobile SDK
Embed sanctions screening directly into your platform for a seamless, branded experience. Run instant checks on customers or partners without leaving your app.
API
Integrate Ondato’s screening and monitoring into your systems to automate checks, flag risks in real time, and stay fully compliant at scale.
Static URL
Start screening in seconds with a secure, no-code link. Share it to verify clients or partners instantly with no integration required.
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FAQ
Sanctions lists serve as official records by compiling the financial sanctions put on countries, agencies, groups, and individuals. Sanctions lists provide information on specific sanctions and help compliance teams perform due diligence by documenting banned people or groups. Sanctions lists are kept by governments or international bodies.
Sanctions screening is an anti-money laundering process. It is a tool intended to disrupt financial crime as well as both detect and prevent it. The best sanctions screening software helps companies prevent trade with specific individuals, groups, agencies, and individuals before potential crimes take place. Failure to comply with screening for sanctions can incur major penalties, including massive fines and criminal proceedings.
Sanctions screening is a due diligence legal requirement for most industries, both in being a legal requirement and a way to protect themselves.
The most commonly known of these are financial institutions that are required to keep up with AML rules and regulations, including sanctions screening, to prevent money laundering and financial crime . Financial institutions are required to screen both transactions and customers to ensure compliance.
The most commonly known of these are financial institutions that are required to keep up with AML rules and regulations, including sanctions screening, to prevent money laundering and financial crime . Financial institutions are required to screen both transactions and customers to ensure compliance.
With Ondato's comprehensive approach to sanctions lists, you can choose when to perform sanctions checks:
- As part of the onboarding process;
- Manually with the use of our OS platform;
- Via our API;
- Upon the creation of a client card, which also adds the option to enable periodical monitoring.
Ondato’s sanctions screening is extremely accurate, powered by continuously updated global data sources, including United Nations, European Union, Office of Foreign Assets Control, and other official lists. The system refreshes every three hours to ensure real-time accuracy and uses advanced AI to match names, detect variations, and minimize false positives. This means you receive reliable, up-to-date results that help you make confident compliance decisions every time.
Yes. Ondato’s sanctions screening can be seamlessly integrated into your existing workflows through a flexible API or Web and Mobile SDKs. For teams looking for a quick start, we also offer a no-code Static URL option. No matter your setup, integration is designed to be simple, secure, and scalable, ensuring compliance fits smoothly into your operations.