ESPY’s PEP & Sanctions Screening API enables companies to check individuals against politically exposed persons databases, sanctions lists and international watchlist categories.
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Global Watchlists
Live Regulatory
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Fast Response Times
API Latency
Legacy compliance workflows rely on static database downloads and delayed batch updates that introduce enforcement blind spots and massive false-positive backlogs. ESPY bypasses outdated CSV dumps, executing live multi-source ingestion across global sanctions registries, political databases, and regulatory watchlists in real time.
Continuous automated indexing across primary global enforcement lists, including OFAC (US), HM Treasury (UK), EU Consolidated, UN Security Council, and regional regulatory archives.
Granular profile tracking for government leadership, senior military officials, judicial authorities, and their immediate family members or close associates (RCA) across global jurisdictions.
Real-time web monitoring scanning global news archives and regulatory actions linked to sanctioned entities and high-risk individuals.
ESPY combines live registry synchronization, advanced phonetic matching algorithms, and structured JSON output into a high-throughput API layer for compliance architects and risk engineers.
Direct RESTful endpoints allow engineering teams to execute real-time identity checks and high-volume batch screenings without degrading platform throughput. The API returns structured, machine-readable JSON data blocks designed for direct injection into proprietary risk engines and decision logic.
Fast Response Times: Optimized for real-time inline user checks, login gates, and high-volume onboarding pipelines.
High-Volume Bulk Screening: Cloud-elastic infrastructure capable of processing millions of entity records without rate-limiting.
Flexible Schema Integration: Ingest normalized compliance payloads effortlessly into existing CRMs, core platforms, or screening engines.
Bypasses rigid exact-text lookups by utilizing multi-language phonetic matching algorithms to resolve transliteration discrepancies, spelling typos, and regional naming inversions. Using additional identifiers can help reduce irrelevant matches and support more accurate review
Multi-Language Name Matching: Accurately cross-reference Cyrillic, Arabic, Asian, and Latin character sets against global lists.
Multi-Field Identity Disambiguation: Correlate birth dates, aliases, countries, and addresses to automatically filter out false matches.
Dynamic Confidence Weighting: Receive normalized match percentage scores (0–100%) to drive automated compliance routing.
Delivers structured data payloads designed for audit readiness and Periodic Customer Review. Configurable event-driven Webhooks notify backend systems when new sanctions listings or PEP status updates occur for monitored profiles.
Regulatory Audit Readiness: Access structured query logs aligned with FATF, 6AMLD, and regional regulatory audit demands.
Event-Driven Webhook Execution: Receive instant JSON broadcasts whenever active watchlists update or new sanctions entries occur.
Transport Encryption: Protect compliance lookups using enterprise-grade AES-256 encryption in transit and at rest.
Integrate real-time watchlist screening and structured AML risk intelligence directly into your onboarding systems, KYC workflows, and enterprise compliance operations.
Need to start with limited parameters? ESPY can enrich identity profiles and discover sanctions matches using a single Full Name, Alias, or Address via a unified API endpoint.
High-performance queries delivered in a clean JSON response, optimized for real-time operations where speed is critical.
Real-time compliance intelligence provides contextual secondary parameters that help reduce irrelevant matches and support more accurate review.
Instantly determine match origins across 1,000+ international enforcement lists, specifying issuing body, regulation ID, and sanction severity.
Map political exposure tiers down to national leadership, military commanders, judicial authorities, and linked immediate family members (RCA).
Evaluate secondary metadata including historical dates of birth, known aliases, passport indicators, and country codes to resolve false positives.
Extract contextual risk signals from global news archives, regulatory enforcement actions, and financial crime databases linked to query entities.
Validate geographic footprints by matching submitted address data and country codes against historical registry filings.
Receive instant Webhook event notifications whenever a monitored entity profile appears on newly updated sanctions declarations or PEP registries.
ESPY’s Compliance & AML Data Infrastructure helps enterprise engineering teams cross-reference raw identity inputs with verified global watchlists and enforcement archives. Built as a high-performance RESTful pipeline, the system transforms unstructured regulatory lists into clean JSON metadata blocks for automated screening and compliance workflows.
1,000+
Watchlists Indexed
Fast Response Times
Query Latency
195+
Countries Covered
ESPY core analysis platform evaluates compliance data patterns across all available sanctions lists, PEP registries, and adverse media channels to map regulatory footprints. Engineered for software architects and compliance officers, the architecture combines a high-throughput RESTful API with automated validation pipelines to deliver reliable, developer-ready compliance data streams.
ESPY provides the technical data infrastructure necessary to connect user inputs with global regulatory databases. Our platform combines high-precision phonetic matching and live watchlist indexing into a unified, developer-ready interface.
Parse and normalize multilingual names, aliases, and corporate entities using advanced phonetic algorithms across submitted query inputs.
Map connected PEP relationships, beneficial ownership structures, and historical aliases to resolve identity context.
Maintain matching accuracy across international character sets and regional spelling variations through automated normalization engines.
Query active enforcement feeds from OFAC, EU, UN, UK, and regional registries in real time to detect active sanctions.
Access continuous adverse media repositories to identify emerging financial crime and regulatory risks.
Enrich compliance pipelines by linking raw queries to normalized PEP tiers, confidence scores, and structured audit logs.
Execute synchronous Webhook alerts and receive real-time payload updates whenever monitored entities appear on updated watchlists.
Distinguish clean customer profiles from high-risk or sanctioned individuals through multi-field identity disambiguation.
Streamline enterprise AML operations, regulatory reporting, and audit readiness with structured, real-time JSON payload streams.
Legacy compliance tools rely on static database downloads, slow admin portals, and rigid exact-string lookups. ESPY provides a low-latency REST API engineered for direct product integration and automated workflows.
Developer-First Breach Data Routing.
ESPY converts exposed account activity and breach data into structured JSON feeds designed for authentication systems, onboarding workflows, and fraud prevention platforms.
Built for high-volume, low-latency environments, ESPY provides developers with real-time breach monitoring infrastructure for modern product workflows.
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Connect low-latency PEP and sanctions screening to your onboarding or transaction engine in minutes. ESPY gives developer teams the pipelines to automate compliance checks, no matter the query volume.
Send the subject’s name and selected screening category through the API. Add aliases, date of birth, country or other known identifiers when available.
The initial request generates an asynchronous screening job. The normalized match payload is retrieved using the returned request ID via the ESPY query status endpoint or streamed directly to your backend via Webhooks.
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Watchlists Indexed
1,000+
Watchlists Indexed
Evaluate the returned match score, identity details, professional information and source data according to your organization’s compliance procedures.
Use the screening result together with verified customer information and internal compliance policies. ESPY provides screening data but does not replace the organization’s compliance judgment.
Recommended API example
{
“key”: “YOUR_API_KEY”,
“lookupId”: “YOUR_LOOKUP_ID”,
“methodName”: “pep”,
“subject”: “FULL_NAME”,
“categories”: “ALLPP”,
“aliases”: “KNOWN_ALIAS”,
“dateOfBirthFilter”: true,
“matchScoreThreshold”: 0.5,
“dateOfBirth”: “YYYY-MM-DD”,
“countryCodes”: [“USA”]
}
Traditional breach lists rely on static downloads and manual formatting. ESPY provides structured breach feeds designed for real-time authentication and onboarding workflows.
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Everything you need to know about infrastructure, identity intelligence, and technical integration.
PEP screening checks whether an individual may hold or have held a prominent public position. A potential PEP match can indicate that enhanced due diligence is appropriate; it does not mean that the person has committed an offence.
The documented screening categories include sources connected with OFAC, European Union, United Kingdom, Canadian and other international sanctions and watchlists. Exact source coverage should be confirmed for the customer’s required jurisdiction.
The API accepts names, aliases and additional identifying information. These fields can improve matching and help reviewers evaluate potential results. Avoid promising particular phonetic algorithms unless confirmed technically.
Not necessarily. A match is a potential screening result. Compliance teams should compare the returned information with verified customer data before making a decision.
Yes. The documented request includes a matchScoreThreshold parameter that can be configured according to the screening workflow.
Yes. The API request supports date-of-birth information, country details and country codes, along with other optional identity fields.
No. The API supplies screening results that can support a company’s AML and KYC procedures. The organization remains responsible for reviewing results and applying its compliance policy.
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