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Risk & Compliance

AML & Sanctions Screening API

Check an individual or company against international and domestic sanctions lists, politically exposed person databases, regulatory enforcement lists and watchlists. Get scored matches with the list, reason and profile, and re-screen automatically as lists change.

Response
Real-time
Inputs
1 required · 3 optional
Consent
Not required
Billing
Per successful call
POST /v1/aml-screening
Sandbox · Production
  1. Your application sends

    • Name (individual or entity)*
    • Date of birth or incorporation
    • Nationality or country
    • Identifiers (PAN, passport)
  2. emver API

    Validates the request, queries the source, normalises the answer and logs the call. Billed only on success.

  3. Verified with

    Global sanctions, PEP and watchlists

  4. You receive

    • Match status
    • Ranked matches with score
    • List, category and reason
    • PEP level and relationships
    • Profile summary for each match
aml-screening Full reference
Overview

What the AML & Sanctions Screening API does

Anti-money-laundering obligations require screening before onboarding and monitoring afterwards. The AML & Sanctions Screening API runs a name, with optional date of birth, nationality and identifiers, across consolidated global and Indian lists and returns ranked matches with enough detail for a compliance officer to clear or escalate.

Ongoing monitoring re-screens your customer and vendor base as lists update, and posts new hits to your webhook.

Benefits

Why teams use the AML & Sanctions Screening API

Screen people and entities against global sanctions, PEP and watchlists.

Global and domestic lists

Sanctions, PEP, enforcement and watchlists in one query.

Fewer false positives

Name matching tuned for Indian names and transliteration.

Ongoing monitoring

Automatic re-screening as lists change.

Audit trail

Every decision to clear or escalate is recorded.

Use cases

Where it's called

Where the AML & Sanctions Screening API is typically called, and what it settles there.

Customer onboarding (KYC/AML)

Mandatory screening for regulated entities.

Vendor and partner due diligence

Screen counterparties and their directors.

Senior hire due diligence

PEP and enforcement checks for leadership roles.

Investment and broking

Screen investors and beneficial owners.

How it works

Four steps, one response envelope

Request and response details, environments and a ready-to-import collection are in the developer console.

  1. 01

    Authenticate

    Call with your organisation API key. Sandbox and production use the same contract.

  2. 02

    Send the inputs

    Name (individual or entity) as a JSON body. Optional fields sharpen the match.

  3. 03

    We verify at source

    emver queries the authoritative record, normalises the answer and logs the request.

  4. 04

    Act on the result

    A verification status plus the fields listed above, in the same response envelope as every other API.

Privacy and security built in

Consent recorded · Payloads not retained beyond your retention window · Every request traceable

FAQ

AML & Sanctions Screening API: frequently asked questions

What teams ask before adding the AML & Sanctions Screening API to their integration.

Major international sanctions programmes, domestic regulatory and enforcement lists, PEP databases and adverse-media-derived watchlists. The console lists current sources.

Matches come with scores and profiles. Your team clears or escalates in your own system, and the decision is logged against the request.

Related

APIs that run alongside it

Usually called with the AML & Sanctions Screening API, on the same key.

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