@open_sanctions

High quality, open source sanctions data.

 Berlin, Germany
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Joined January 2021
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Senzing, Inc.@senzingJul 8
#BeneficialOwnership. Connected intelligence. #EntityResolution. All in one repository. 💡 @Pacoid & Christophe Willemsen show you how to operationalize #ERKG w Senzing, @neo4j, @graph_aware Hume, @open_sanctions + @OpenOwnership. 👉 hubs.li/Q04nWX_L0 #KnowledgeGraph
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GraphAware@graph_awareJul 8
Building an entity-resolved graph is one thing. Running it in production is another. Following their Bridge Meetup Prague workshop, Paco N. and @ikwattro show how to combine @senzing, @neo4j, GraphAware Hume, Open Ownership and @open_sanctions. 🔗github.com/ikwattro/operatio…
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With just over a week to go until Europe’s investigative journalism conference #Dataharvest26, we’ve compiled a list of the sessions you won’t want to miss — from investigating crypto to tracking the shadow fleet. #EIJC26👇️ opensanctions.org/articles/2…

Dataharvest 2026: Sessions you won’t want to miss

Europe’s investigative journalism conference, Dataharvest, brings together reporters and analysts from across the continent to discuss the latest in data journalism and investigative reporting. Here...

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The compliance industry's data needs are changing. @pudo has been writing about how we’ve been using LLMs for watchlist-to-watchlist deduplication, and some of the technical — and ethical — challenges the sector will need to navigate👇 opensanctions.org/articles/2…

How LLMs are changing screening

A shift towards narrative matching is redefining the compliance industry's data needs. Here at OpenSanctions, experiments using Large Language Models (LLMs) to deduplicate sanctioned and politically...

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Introducing OpenCheck: customer due diligence checks powered by the Legal Entity Identifier, open data and open standards stephenabbottpugh.medium.com… Try the demo version at opencheck.onrender.com/ #LEI #opendata #openstandards #beneficialownership #AMLR #AMLA #CDD
Introducing OpenCheck: customer due diligence checks powered by the Legal Entity Identifier, open data and open standards

ALT Introducing OpenCheck: customer due diligence checks powered by the Legal Entity Identifier, open data and open standards

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If you’re looking for a five-minute briefing on the latest OpenSanctions data, analysis, and news, come and join us over at our newsletter! Next edition goes out tomorrow 👇️ opensanctions.org/newsletter…
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Drowning in #OSINT tools? This #Linkurious guide pulls together 20+ tools to enhance your investigations — and OpenSanctions made the cut. It also explains how knowledge graphs can be used to reveal hidden relationships within the data 👇️ linkurious.com/blog/20-osint…

20+ OSINT tools for in-depth investigations

Learn about 20+ useful OSINT tools that can enhance your investigations, and how to integrate them into your workflows.

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🌎️ We've built a tool to help fill in the gaps in #politicaldata: ➡️ It scans #Wikidata + #Wikipedia ➡️ Finds missing data on politicians ➡️ Turns it into quick 5min tasks anyone can do Read more about #PoliLoom + join our demo on 2 April: opensanctions.org/articles/2…
Screenshot of PoliLoom. Panel on the left showing the extracted data on a politician, and on the right, the Wikipedia entry the data has been sourced from.

ALT Screenshot of PoliLoom. Panel on the left showing the extracted data on a politician, and on the right, the Wikipedia entry the data has been sourced from.

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📢 ICYMI: We recently launched the Beta version of #EveryPolitician, a global #database of political officeholders. Read all about it - or come and help us make it better ⬇️ opensanctions.org/articles/2…
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🎉 It’s a good day for the open posse! @BrightQuery's #OpenData has teamed up with @senzing to release a comprehensive U.S. dataset containing 86 million organisations, available in #Senzing-ready JSON format. (1/3) opendata.org/

OpenData.org — The Open Directory of Entities

324 million organizations, 1.2 billion people, and 512 million places, linked by the identifiers every field already uses. A nonprofit initiative partnered with leading open-source organizations.

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🕸️ It provides a more complete view of the US business ecosystem & the complex relationships within it. We've also integrated BrightQuery IDs into our data to enrich it with corporate family structures, legal status, headcount, revenue & more (2/3) opensanctions.org/datasets/b…

BrightQuery OpenData.org

BrightQuery OpenData.org provides firmographic and legal entity level information for millions of US organizations, enabling enriched organization profiles.

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💊 Here at #OpenSanctions, the release will bring clarity to our #Medicaid data, which includes entities that have been barred from participating in programs due to misconduct, fraud, or other violations (3/3) opensanctions.org/articles/2…

US Medicaid Exclusions - Going State by State

Over the past few months, we've integrated a new group of sources: US state-level Medicaid exclusion lists. They detail entities that have been barred from participating in Medicaid programs due to...

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Our founder @pudo recently spoke to @21Analytics about our #opensource & #investigative DNA and why transparency matters in today's compliance world. Read all about it ➡️ 21analytics.co/blog/opensanc…
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Four years since #Russia launched its full-scale invasion of #Ukraine. Four years of war crimes, forced displacement, and cities reduced to rubble. Four years of Ukrainians defending not just their country, but the principle that borders cannot be redrawn by force. (1/3)
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On this day, historian @TimothyDSnyder reminds us not to let the numbers do the thinking for us: "A number cannot end a war. An anniversary is an abstraction that separates us from responsibility..." (2/3) snyder.substack.com/p/life-a…
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If you want to do something today, Come Back Alive (savelife.in.ua/en/) remains one of the most effective ways to support Ukraine, funding equipment for soldiers on the battlefield and care for veterans. Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 (3/3)

Come Back Alive Foundation - Charity Organization

One of the top charity organizations who help the Ukraine Army since 2014. Donate via the website - 100% of proceeds go directly to Ukraine Army.

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Open data only works if it’s interconnected. That’s why we launched GODIN: a global framework linking identifiers to the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). See how openness drives trust →

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Senzing, Inc.@senzing15 Jul 2025
What makes name matching so complex? Cultural complexity and much more! Read what Friedrich Lindenberg at @open_sanctions has learned over the years matching names and companies to watchlists: hubs.li/Q03xlplp0 #SenzingPartner #EntityResolution #SanctionScreening

Name Matching in Sanctions Screening

Learn how entity resolution can help with sanctions screening, matching the names of people and companies to those on global watchlists.

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GLEIF is proud to have joined the @BIS_org Innovation Hub’s 2025 Analytics Challenge! Our joint solution, Transparency Fabric 2.0, developed with @OpenOwnership & powered by data from @Open_Sanctions, was shortlisted at the London Analytics Showcase on 27 March. Discover more: transparencyfabric.gleif.org… 📽️ youtu.be/elAGUC3W-sY
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Fantastic to see the @open_sanctions team republishing data from the Global Energy Ownership Tracker created by @GlobalEnergyMon which currently shows how 16,301 entities own and control various energy projects opensanctions.org/datasets/g… #opendata #openstandards cc @MowatAnna

Global Energy Ownership Tracker

Information on the chain of ownership for various energy projects. The data maps each level of the chain from the direct owner up to their highest-level ultimate parents.

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