UK Sanctions List Screener

UK Sanctions Screener

UK Sanctions Screener checks person and company names against the official UK Sanctions List (FCDO) with fuzzy matching on names and aliases, downloading the latest list on every run.

Best for: Customer and merchant onboarding, supplier checks, payments operations and anyone who needs a quick, current UK sanctions screening aid.

What does UK Sanctions Screener do?

Fuzzy-screens person and company names against the UK Sanctions List — the FCDO single list that, since 28 Jan 2026, is the sole UK source (OFSI Consolidated List closed). Downloads the latest official CSV each run, so data is always current.

• Normalises accents, punctuation, legal suffixes (Ltd, LLC, OOO…)
• Matches primary names and aliases (token-sort / token-set similarity)
• Returns regime, designation type, date designated, DOB, nationality, sanctions imposed, score

How to screen names against the UK Sanctions List

1. Add the people or companies to Names to screen (names).
2. Adjust the Match threshold (default 88) if you want stricter or looser matching.
3. Click Start and have a person review every potential match.

Output

query, listReportDate, hit, matches[{uniqueId, matchedName, matchedNameType, score, regime, designationType, ...}]

Disclaimer: screening aid only. Potential matches must be reviewed by a human; this is not legal advice and is not a substitute for a regulated screening provider where required. Data: UK Sanctions List, © Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Pricing (pay-per-event)

• name-screened: $0.002 per name ($2 / 1,000).
• Example: 10,000 names cost $20.00.

Example input

{
  "names": [
    "Igor Sechin",
    "Acme Trading Ltd"
  ],
  "threshold": 88
}

Example output

Values below are illustrative.

{
  "query": "Igor Sechin",
  "listReportDate": "08-Oct-2026",
  "hit": true,
  "matches": [
    {
      "matchedName": "Igor Ivanovich SECHIN",
      "score": 100,
      "regime": "The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
      "designationType": "Individual"
    }
  ]
}

Use it via API, schedules and integrations

Run it in Apify Console, or call it from your own code with the Apify API or the Python and JavaScript clients. Save an input as a task and add a schedule to run it regularly, and send results to Slack, email, webhooks, Zapier, Make or n8n with Apify integrations. AI agents can find and run it through the Apify MCP server.

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("sterlingverify/uk-sanctions-screener").call(run_input={"names": ["Acme Trading Ltd"]})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

Use in Clay, Zapier, Make, n8n, Pipedream, Power Automate or Activepieces

All of them connect to Apify through their official Apify integrations, using your own Apify account: an API token from Apify Console > Settings > API & Integrations, or Apify sign-in for Power Automate. Runs bill to your Apify account at this Actor's pay-per-event price.

• Clay: save this Actor's input as an Apify task and copy it as JSON. In your Clay table, add the Run Apify Actor enrichment, choose it and paste the JSON into Input Data, mapping Clay columns into the fields. To pull a finished run into a new table, use the Import data from Apify Actor source.
• Zapier: use the Apify Run Actor action, or the Finished Actor run trigger followed by Fetch dataset items. Synchronous runs in Zapier stop after 30 seconds, so use the trigger for big batches.
• Make: add the Apify Run an Actor module with Run synchronously set to Yes, then Get Dataset Items with the run's dataset ID. For longer runs, use the Watch Actor Runs trigger.
• n8n: install the Apify node (@apify/n8n-nodes-apify, or search "Apify" on n8n Cloud) and use Run an Actor and get dataset.
• Pipedream: add the Apify app's Run Actor action, or Run Task Synchronously on one of this Actor's public example tasks (or your own saved task) to get the dataset items back in one step. For big batches, start from the New Finished Actor Run or New Finished Task Run trigger, then Get Dataset Items.
• Power Automate: add the Apify connector (a premium connector, currently in preview) and sign in with your Apify account. Use Run Actor with Enter custom value set to sterlingverify/uk-sanctions-screener and paste the input as JSON, then Get dataset items with the run's default dataset ID. For big batches, start the flow from the Actor run finished trigger instead.
• Activepieces: add the Apify piece and use Run Actor, or Run Task on one of this Actor's public example tasks (or your own saved task), then Get Dataset Items. For scheduled or big batches, use the Watch Actor Runs or Watch Task Runs trigger.
• Google Drive / Sheets: add Apify's Upload results to GDrive integration to a scheduled task to drop each run's CSV or XLSX into your team's Drive, or chain the Google Sheets Import & Export actor to append rows to a sheet.
• Slack alerts: add Apify's Slack integration to a scheduled task to post each run's results or new alerts to your team channel, or start a check from Slack with /apify call and your task ID.
• Snowflake: install Apify's Snowflake Native App, run this Actor from Snowsight and load results straight into a table.
• Email digests: add Apify's Send results email via Gmail integration to a scheduled task to attach each run's CSV/JSON to your inbox.
• Microsoft Teams alerts: add an Apify webhook (HTTP request on run succeeded or failed) to a scheduled task, point it at a Teams Workflows incoming-webhook URL, and set the payload template to an Adaptive Card message so each run posts an alert into your channel.
• Airbyte: add Apify Dataset as a source in Airbyte (dataset ID + Apify API token) to move a run's results into Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres or another Airbyte destination.
• Dify: install Apify's apify-integration plugin from the Dify Marketplace and use Run Actor as a tool in a Workflow or Chatflow, or point this Actor's Run succeeded HTTP webhook at a published Dify app's plugin endpoint to trigger it.
• Workato: install the Apify connector from Workato's Community library (Custom connectors), connect it with your Apify API token, and run this Actor inside a recipe or trigger a recipe when a run finishes.
• Any HTTP tool or script: send one request and get the results back as JSON. Runs must finish within 5 minutes.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sterlingverify~uk-sanctions-screener/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @input.json

FAQ

Which list does it use?

The UK Sanctions List published by the FCDO, which has been the single UK source since 28 Jan 2026 (the OFSI Consolidated List closed).

Is a match a confirmed hit?

No. It is a screening aid only, not legal advice. Potential matches must be reviewed by a human.

Disclaimer

Screening aid only, not legal advice. Not affiliated with FCDO/OFSI. Potential matches must be reviewed by a human; not a substitute for a regulated screening provider where required. Data: UK Sanctions List © Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Platform usage is included in the per-event price; you pay only for results.

Related sterlingVerify tools

Part of the sterlingVerify UK payments, KYB and data toolkit on Apify Store:

• UK Company Check: Companies House, VAT and UK sanctions KYB check in one call
• UK Director Search: every Companies House appointment for a director
• Merchant Website Compliance Checker for Onboarding: onboarding review of a merchant's website
• EU VAT Number Validator (VIES): bulk EU VAT number checks against VIES