What is a Watchlist Check?

A Watchlist check allows you to verify your users records on global watchlists which include:

• Sanctions - Government and International Organisations Sanctions Lists.
• Politically Exposed Persons - Proprietary database of Politically Exposed Persons sourced from government lists, websites and other media sources.
• Monitored Lists - Law-enforcement and Regulatory bodies Monitored Lists (including Terrorism, Money Laundering and Most Wanted lists)
• Adverse Media  - Negative events reported by publicly and generally available media sources.
  

We currently offer 4 Watchlist endpoints on our API:

• Watchlist Sanctions only - returns matches against Sanctions only
• Watchlist PEPs only - returns matches against PEPs only
• Watchlist Standard - returns matches against 3 breakdowns (Sanctions, PEPs and Monitored Lists)
• Watchlist Enhanced - returns matches against the 4 breakdowns (Sanctions, PEPs and Monitored Lists and Adverse Media).

You can learn more about it on our API reference.