Data Sources

All data is downloaded from public, authoritative sources and ingested into a local SQLite database. No external API calls are made during investigations.

Sanctions Lists

OFAC SDN List

Publisher: US Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control
Entries: ~18,863 parties
Format: XML (sdn_advanced.xml) + flat CSV
Coverage: US sanctions watchlist. Required check for any US-nexus compliance.

OFAC Consolidated Non-SDN List

Publisher: OFAC
Entries: ~442 entries
Coverage: Non-SDN consolidated programs (sectoral sanctions, etc.).

OpenSanctions

Publisher: OpenSanctions.org
Entries: ~1.32M entities across two collections
Collections:
- opensanctions_sanctions: 69,841 entries — global sanctions consolidation
- opensanctions_default: 1,250,076 entries — sanctions + PEPs + criminal interest
Coverage: 331 global source lists aggregated and deduplicated.

Company Registries

UK Companies House

Publisher: Companies House, UK Government
Entities: 5,696,442 companies
Coverage: All UK-registered legal entities.

UK PSC Register

Publisher: Companies House
Records: 14,559,681 beneficial ownership records
Coverage: Persons and entities with significant control over UK companies (25%+ threshold).

Global Entity Registry

GLEIF Global LEI Registry

Publisher: Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation
Entities: 3,291,407 LEI holders (Level 1)
Relationships: 471,882 ownership relationships (Level 2)
Coverage: Financial market participants globally. Ownership chain data maps direct and ultimate parents.

US Public Company Registry

SEC EDGAR Company Registry

Publisher: US Securities and Exchange Commission
Entities: 10,341 US-listed public companies
Coverage: All NYSE, Nasdaq, and other US exchange-listed companies. Includes ticker symbol and CIK (Central Index Key), the authoritative SEC identifier used to look up filings.

SEC EDGAR 13D/13G Beneficial Ownership Filings

Publisher: US Securities and Exchange Commission
Coverage: Form SC 13D and SC 13G are SEC-mandated disclosures by any investor crossing 5% ownership in a US public company. Together they are the US equivalent of the UK PSC register — the primary mechanism for beneficial ownership disclosure for US-listed companies. KYC Analyst checks local bulk data first and falls back to a live EDGAR API lookup when local data is unavailable.