Sources

Every sanctions record carries a sources[] array naming the feeds it was published on, and every record has at least one. The same codes drive the sources query parameter on the full snapshot, so you can narrow a download to the feeds you care about.

Unlike most value lists in this API, this one is closed. The sources parameter validates against exactly seven codes and rejects anything else with a 422: eu-fsf, eu-oj, ofac-sdn, ofac-cons, un-sc, uk-fcdo, poit.

The feeds are not merged, because a designation means something different depending on who made it. A subject designated by three authorities appears once, with three codes on sources[] and one entry per designation in sanctions[].

European Union

EU financial sanctions bind EU persons and entities.

EU Financial Sanctions File (eu-fsf)

The consolidated EU financial sanctions list, published by the European Commission and the European Council. It is the operative list: everyone subject to an asset freeze or a funds-and-economic-resources prohibition under an EU regulation.

EU Official Journal (eu-oj)

The EU’s publication of record, where the legal act making a designation appears.

The FSF is consolidated from those acts, but a new designation can take up to 30 days to reach it. This feed closes that window, carrying designations already in force but not yet consolidated. Once one reaches the FSF it leaves eu-oj, so no subject is served under both codes at once.

United States

US sanctions reach beyond US firms. A transaction settled in US dollars, routed through a US correspondent bank, or involving US entities or citizens falls under US jurisdiction.

Specially Designated Nationals (ofac-sdn)

Published by the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. Property of an SDN within US jurisdiction is blocked, and US persons are generally prohibited from dealing with them. Dealings by non-US parties can themselves attract designation.

Consolidated Sanctions List (ofac-cons)

OFAC’s non-SDN programs: sectoral, correspondent-account, and similar restrictions that prohibit specific kinds of dealing rather than blocking a party outright.

A match here does not usually mean “do not deal”. It means a category of transaction is restricted, and the program named on the designation tells you which.

United Nations

UN Security Council measures bind every member state under the UN Charter. States implement them in domestic law, and firms screen against them under whichever national instrument gives them effect.

Security Council Consolidated List (un-sc)

Every designation made under a UN Security Council sanctions regime. Because states implement through their own instruments, a UN listing usually reappears on the regional lists in each state’s own form.

United Kingdom

UK sanctions bind UK persons and entities, and any conduct within UK territory. Since the UK’s withdrawal from the EU the two lists have diverged, so UK status cannot be inferred from an EU listing.

UK Sanctions List (uk-fcdo)

Published by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act.

Sweden

Post- och Inrikes Tidningar (poit)

The Swedish official gazette, which publishes announcements that Swedish law requires to be made public. It is the national feed in the set, covering the Swedish market where the international lists do not.

The seven codes are the contract’s own fixed vocabulary and are enforced on the sources parameter. The descriptions above identify which published list each code refers to and why it is in the set; they are not part of the contract and make no guarantee about what a given feed contains at a point in time.

Selecting sources

Pass a comma-separated allowlist to the full snapshot:

curl "$BASE_URL/v1/sanctions/full?sources=eu-fsf,un-sc" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Omit the parameter to receive every source. An unknown code is a 422.

An allowlist selects records, it does not trim them: a record matching on one code is returned whole, including its other source codes.

The country query parameter is deprecated and has never narrowed the result set. To narrow by jurisdiction, read the designation fields on sanctions[].

Sanctions only

sources exists on GET /v1/sanctions/full and nowhere else. PEP records are gated per source by a licensing grant on the key (allowed_sources, visible on /v1/whoami) and applied automatically. The PEP source codes are a different vocabulary: coverage countries, not publishers.