Moon Scan
Sanctions & PEP screening for Hong Kong companies
Free instant screening against the OpenSanctions consolidated dataset — a clear verdict and a downloadable PDF report for your CDD file.
5 free scans a day — no credit card, no setup
Built for Hong Kong companies
Hong Kong's AML regime — the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance (AMLO, Cap. 615) and the Companies Registry's TCSP AML/CFT Guideline — requires screening customers and beneficial owners against sanctions and terrorist lists at onboarding and when lists are updated. Banks expect the same from ordinary companies opening accounts. Moon Scan gives you a fast, documented name screen for that work.
TCSPs & company secretaries
Screen clients and beneficial owners as part of statutory CDD when taking on or reviewing company-secretary mandates.
Accountants & auditors
Run name checks when onboarding clients or refreshing risk assessments for audit and advisory engagements.
Law firms & professional practices
Screen counterparties and beneficial owners before matters proceed, and keep a PDF on the file.
SMEs & startups facing bank KYC
Produce a clear screening record when banks or payment providers ask for CDD evidence at account opening.
How it works
1
Enter a name
Type a person or company name. Optional aliases and alternative spellings are supported.
2
Get an automatic verdict
Fixed rules classify strong matches as No relevant match, PEP — enhanced due diligence, or Flagged.
3
Download the PDF once
Save a one-time PDF report for your file — useful for CDD records.
Three clear verdicts
No relevant match
No strong matches on sanctions, crime, wanted, debarment, or PEP-type lists.
PEP — enhanced due diligence
Strong match on a politically exposed person (or related) list — proceed with enhanced due diligence.
Flagged
Strong match on a prohibitive list such as sanctions, crime, wanted, or debarment — escalate before proceeding.
A PDF report for your CDD file
Every scan can produce a one-page PDF you can file with your customer due diligence records.
- Instant verdict at the top — no relevant match, PEP, or flagged — so reviewers see the conclusion first.
- Dataset version recorded on every report for an auditable trail.
- One PDF download per scan, with a short retry window if the download fails.
Open data, refreshed daily
Screening uses the OpenSanctions default collection — consolidated sanctions, PEPs, wanted lists, and debarment data from many jurisdictions. The mirror is refreshed daily, and every PDF report shows the dataset version used.
Data source: OpenSanctions
5 free scans every day.
Every signed-in account gets a free daily quota — no credit card required. Need more quota, an API, or team access? Contact us for a quotation.
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