Sanctions and PEP screening you can defend.

Verifex is a sanctions, PEP and AML screening API with a decision record behind every result. Screening checks people and companies against the sources you choose. Verifex Shield monitors transactions for fraud and AML risk and screens the counterparty in the same call. Both keep the evidence of what was checked, so a result can be explained to an auditor later.

Verifex screens people and companies against sanctions lists, PEP data and watchlists, including OFAC, UK Sanctions, the United Nations, BIS and multilateral debarment lists. 41 sources are catalogued. Coverage and update frequency vary by source; the data sources page shows the live state of each one.

Two of them. Every new account gets 5 screens on the Starter source set (sanctions, PEP and watchlists) with no credit card, so you can test the API and read real responses before you pay; that allowance does not renew. Separately, there is a card-required trial on the paid plans: Starter, Growth and Pro are free for 7 days. The first payment is taken on day 8 — the monthly price, or the full year on annual billing. Cancel before then and you pay nothing.

Shield is fraud and AML transaction monitoring. Each transaction gets one of five outcomes (clear, review, delay, escalate or block) with the rules that fired, a score, and a signed evidence record. Compliance teams can tune a rule, test it on past decisions and deploy it without engineering work. Shield is generally available and is switched on per account by Verifex, so talk to us to enable it.

Yes. Shield offers a SanctionScanner-compatible API with the same paths, fields and response envelope, plus Shield's own extensions. Most integrations change the base URL and the API key. A native API is available for new integrations.

Not on its own. A result is only eligible for your clearance path when standard mode ran, every in-scope source answered, the candidate set was complete and the evidence record is available. If any of those fails, Verifex holds the result for review and says why. The legal decision stays with your team.

No. A sanctioned person is someone you are legally barred from dealing with. A PEP (politically exposed person) is someone in public office, or close to one, who needs extra checks, not a ban. Verifex keeps the two apart: a PEP result never becomes a sanctions-grade result by itself.

Every screening records the data, matching evidence, source snapshot, and engine version behind the result, tied to a decision hash. That lets your team reconstruct and verify what was recorded (the versions, decision identity, and source provenance of a past decision) instead of relying on a screenshot or the final label alone.

Verifex publishes two self-administered benchmarks. In the live-API benchmark of October 13, 2026, 3,050 of 3,053 names on the OFAC and UN lists, sent exactly as published through the same API customers call, alerted; none was served clear; 3 came back unresolved. That run passed none of its 7 pre-registered gates, and every gate and failure is published on the benchmark page. The second is an alias-lookup study: 2,000 aliases OFAC publishes, screened against the OFAC list alone on September 7, 2026. Neither is an independent audit, and both were measured before the engine changes deployed since October 17; the next live run measures those.