Watchlist Screening API
One watchlist API for sanctions, PEP, debarment, and law enforcement.
Screen people and companies against configured watchlists through a single API. Structured confidence scores, source attribution, and reviewable evidence for every match.
Coverage
Watchlists covered.
Sanctions
OFAC, UN, UK, Canada, Australia, Switzerland
Politically Exposed Persons
Configured PEP datasets by jurisdiction
Debarment
Multilateral development banks
Law Enforcement
Wanted persons and fugitive lists
Export Control
Restricted party lists by jurisdiction
Capabilities
What the API delivers.
Unified watchlist API
One endpoint screens against sanctions, PEP, debarment, and law enforcement sources. No separate integrations for each list type.
Structured risk tiers
Results are classified by source_severity: primary sanctions, PEP, watchlist, or debarment. Apply the right policy to each match type.
Fast, explainable matching
10-penalty pipeline with LLM cascade and context-aware matching and scoring signals. Every match includes calibrated confidence, per-field contributions, and threshold reasoning.
Global source coverage
Configured sources across major jurisdictions. Source freshness tracked independently per list. Coverage depends on plan and environment.
Reviewable evidence
Every screening produces an Evidence Capsule with query input, list versions, algorithm version, and deterministic decision hash.
Continuous monitoring
Add entities to a watchlist and receive webhook alerts when their risk status changes due to list updates.
Developer experience
One call. Every watchlist.
No separate integrations for sanctions, PEP, and debarment. One POST request returns structured results across all configured sources.
curl -X POST https://api.verifex.dev/v1/screen \
-H "Authorization: Bearer vfx_your_api_key" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"name": "Alejandro García López",
"type": "person",
"country": "MX",
"mode": "broad"
}'{
"verdict": "possible_match",
"risk_level": "medium",
"total_matches": 2,
"matches": [
{
"source": "OFAC_SDN",
"source_type": "sanctions",
"source_severity": "primary",
"confidence": 87,
"match_type": "FUZZY"
},
{
"source": "PEP_CONFIG",
"source_type": "pep",
"source_severity": "pep",
"confidence": 72,
"match_type": "FUZZY"
}
],
"screened_at": "2026-05-11T09:00:00.000Z"
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Continuous Monitoring
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Get started
Start watchlist screening today.
50 free screens per month. One API call covers sanctions, PEP, debarment, and more.