Overview

Sanctioned Securities Data File© is a structured data feed designed to help financial institutions and advisory firms identify financial instruments that are linked to sanctioned entities. By combining detailed financial instrument data with World-Check’s industry-leading sanctions and ownership & control intelligence, the service enables clients to screen for both direct and indirect exposure to sanctions risks. This consolidated view supports compliance with global sanctions regulations and simplifies the complex task of sanctions screening across a wide range of financial instruments.

Market demand for this solution is driven by the increasing need for organizations to manage exposure to financial investments in a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape. As sanctions regulations mature in key jurisdictions such as the US, UK, EU, Singapore, and Australia, compliance teams require more robust and comprehensive data to ensure effective screening. The Sanctioned Securities Data File positions LSEG to meet these needs and reinforce its leadership in the risk intelligence market.

Clients face several challenges in sanctions compliance, including fragmented data sources, difficulty identifying indirect exposure, limited filtering capabilities, regulatory uncertainty, and integration challenges. Many organizations struggle to manually combine sanctions, ownership, and financial instrument data from multiple databases, which is both time-consuming and error-prone. The Sanctioned Securities Data File addresses these pain points by delivering a standardized flat-file feed with key identifiers (such as ISIN, RIC, and PermID), structured fields, and World-Check keywords for flexible filtering and seamless integration into existing workflows.

World-Check On Demand redefines how risk intelligence is created and delivered - giving our customers the power to act faster, smarter, and with absolute confidence. 

Key Benefits

Real-time, on-demand access

Stop waiting for batch updates – gain access to sanctions, PEPs and adverse media data as it happens, providing immediate insight to inform business decisions.

Better business agility

Adapt swiftly to business and regulatory changes – our high quality, structured and provenance-rich data offers complete flexibility to adapt and change in a highly competitive business landscape.

Stronger compliance outcomes

Minimise the risk of non-compliance – access trusted data, on-demand to approve transactions and onboard customers without unnecessary risk or delay.

Lower operational costs

Enhance operational efficiency – our data is structured for precision and machine readability enabling automated workflows that reduce manual effort and speed up remediation to accelerate decision-making.

Greater screening precision

Reduce false positives – leverage deep filtering, enhanced categorisation, and structured risk taxonomy to tailor screening based on your risk appetite and focus on what truly matters.

Transparent change tracking

Be in control of alerts – a built-in record change summary highlights what’s new, so you can react faster and keep your systems in sync, with confidence.

Efficient sanctions screening

Check against and identify sanctions from all relevant bodies – using consolidated and deduplicated data across watchlists to ensure you meet your regulatory and compliance obligations.

Flexible integration

Choose daily, weekly, monthly, or entire database updates that support screening, rescreening and ongoing screening needs – the API supports requests for single record retrieval, bulk input request, or delta requests for data changes.

Use Cases

World-Check is used to screen customers, transactions and payments, suppliers, agents and intermediaries, vessels, UBO’s, SMO’s, other third parties, securities and more, at the time of onboarding, on a continuous basis, during transactions, in order to identify:

• Possible explicitly or implicitly sanctioned entities, individuals, securities or places
• Politically exposed persons and their relatives and close associates
• Entities or individuals that are listed or wanted by law or regulatory enforcement agencies
• People or entities about whom there is reliable, relevant and material adverse media

The next-generation World-Check platform is suitable for financial institutions, government agencies, corporates, MSBs, casino gaming companies, and other institutions with regulatory or reputational requirements to screen clients, customers, and third-party relationships.

Partnerships

LSEG works with more than 200 filter partner organisations across the globe, enabling the integration of World-Check Risk Intelligence data with software solutions tailored to specific business domains. Partnering gives customers more choices regarding workflow, technology, performance, cost, and overall value. We work with partners from a wide range of sectors.