Sanctions Update Alert — Watchlist Change Monitor

Watch a list of names against OFAC SDN and EU consolidated sanctions lists and get only the CHANGES since your last check — a brand-new hit, an existing hit's details shifting (score, program, alias), or a hit that disappeared. Runs on our own live sanctions screening engine under the hood.

What you get

• A named "watch" (a list of names) that remembers what it has already shown you.
• Every scheduled run reports ONLY what changed — a new sanctions hit, an existing hit's score/program/matched-alias drifting, or a hit that no longer matches.
• Run several independent watches from one Actor (e.g. one for vendors, one for new hires) — each has its own memory.
• The very first run for a new watch tells you honestly that it's establishing a baseline, not hiding a "no changes" run as if it found something.
• Runs on Apify: schedule it daily, monitor it, call it from the API, export to JSON/CSV/Excel or push straight into your own pipeline.

How to run it

1. Click Try for free — no card needed on the free plan.
2. Paste the names you want watched into Names, optionally a name for this watch.
3. Hit Start. The first run creates the baseline; schedule it to run again to get a stream of only the CHANGES each time.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: $0.005 per run start + $0.01 per new/changed hit / baseline created. A hit DISAPPEARING (delisted, or dropped below your score threshold) is reported for visibility but never charged — it's the absence of new risk, not a new finding. The "no changes" notice on a quiet run and any error/notice row are also never charged. 10 new/changed hits cost about $0.11 (the one-time start fee plus 10 billed rows).

Input

Field	Required	What it does
names	yes	Person or company names to watch, one per row. Up to 100.
minScore	no	Minimum match score to consider (0-1, default 0.5).
baseline_key	no	Name for this watch, so you can run several independent watches.
max_items	no	Max new/changed-hit rows delivered (and charged) per run (1-200, default 20).

{
    "names": ["Yevgeniy Prigozhin", "Acme Trading LLC"],
    "baseline_key": "vendor-list"
}

Output

Baseline-created row (first run for a watch — real output, live run 30.07.2026):

{
    "baselineKey": "selftest-sanctions-2",
    "found": true,
    "changeType": null,
    "baselineCreated": true,
    "name": null,
    "entityName": null,
    "listName": null,
    "entityType": null,
    "program": null,
    "matchedName": null,
    "score": null,
    "currentHitsCount": 50,
    "changedHitsCount": null,
    "disappearedHitsCount": null,
    "error": "",
    "summary": "First check for \"selftest-sanctions-2\" — baseline created with 50 current sanctions hit(s). Future runs report only NEW or CHANGED hits against this baseline.",
    "checkedAt": "2026-07-30T08:54:19.175Z"
}

New-hit and changed-hit rows (real output, live run 30.07.2026):

{
    "baselineKey": "selftest-sanctions-2",
    "found": true,
    "changeType": "new-hit",
    "name": "Yevgeniy Prigozhin",
    "entityName": "Yevgeniy Viktorovich LEBEDEV",
    "listName": "EU Consolidated",
    "program": "UKR",
    "score": 0.5,
    "error": "",
    "summary": "New sanctions hit for \"selftest-sanctions-2\": \"Yevgeniy Prigozhin\" now matches Yevgeniy Viktorovich LEBEDEV [EU Consolidated], program UKR (score 0.5)."
}

{
    "baselineKey": "selftest-sanctions-2",
    "found": true,
    "changeType": "changed-hit",
    "name": "Acme Trading LLC",
    "entityName": "ACS TRADING LLC",
    "listName": "OFAC SDN",
    "program": "SDGT",
    "score": 0.667,
    "error": "",
    "summary": "Sanctions hit changed for \"selftest-sanctions-2\": \"Acme Trading LLC\" vs ACS TRADING LLC [OFAC SDN] — score 0.222 -> 0.667."
}

Field	Meaning
baselineKey	Which watch this row belongs to.
found	true for a real result row (a hit or baseline-created); false for a notice/error row.
changeType	"new-hit", "changed-hit", or null for a notice row.
baselineCreated	true only on the first-ever run for this watch.
name	The screened name this hit belongs to.
entityName, listName, program, matchedName, score	The sanctioned entity's own fields.
currentHitsCount	Only set on the baseline-created row.
disappearedHitsCount	Only set on a "hits disappeared" notice row.
error	Empty string when the check completed cleanly (including "nothing changed" and "a hit disappeared"); non-empty only on a real problem.
summary	Human-readable one-liner.

Other tools we built

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Sanctions Screening API	Pair it in the compliance and public procurement workflow: Screen names against the live OFAC SDN and EU consolidated sanctions lists
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Company Registry Enricher	Pair it in the compliance and public procurement workflow: Turn a company name, LEI or UK company number into an official registry card: legal name, status,...
Gov Tender Radar	Pair it in the compliance and public procurement workflow: Search EU public-sector tenders (TED Europa) by keyword or CPV code, optionally filtered by buyer country

FAQ / Limitations

Is this a legal or compliance determination? No. This is a screening SIGNAL only — verify any hit against official OFAC/EU sources before acting on it. Matching is soft on purpose (a missed hit is worse than a false one), so expect some noise on common names.

What happens if a source list fails to load mid-run? The run reports it honestly and does not touch your baseline or charge you — a "no changes" read off an incomplete list would be a guess, not a real answer.

What this is NOT. Not a substitute for your compliance team's own due diligence process, and not a guarantee of completeness — sanctions lists change on their own schedule, independent of this Actor's run schedule.

Found a bug or need a custom watch? Issues on the Actor's page.