Data sources

Moon Scan screens against a daily mirror of the OpenSanctions default collection — an open dataset that consolidates sanctions, politically exposed persons, wanted lists, and debarment or exclusion lists from many jurisdictions.

What the default collection covers

Consolidated sanctions lists from major jurisdictions and international bodies

Politically exposed person (PEP) data and related roles

Wanted-person and crime-related listings where published openly

Debarment and exclusion lists used in procurement and finance

The major lists inside the collection

The default collection consolidates over 450 sources. These are the ones compliance teams ask about most:

UNSC Consolidated List: The United Nations Security Council's consolidated sanctions designations — the core mandatory screening list for Hong Kong TCSPs and other AMLO-regulated businesses.
US OFAC SDN List: The US Treasury's Specially Designated Nationals list. A unilateral US regime, but screened worldwide because of its enforcement reach through dollar clearing and correspondent banking.
EU consolidated financial sanctions: All persons and entities subject to EU financial sanctions, consolidated by the European Commission.
UK OFSI consolidated list: The UK's consolidated list of financial sanctions targets, maintained by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation — increasingly divergent from the EU list since Brexit.
Politically exposed persons (PEP) data: Around a million profiles of politically exposed persons and their relatives and close associates, compiled from public sources worldwide.
Debarment and exclusion lists: Parties barred from public procurement or international finance, such as the World Bank's debarred firms list.

Unfamiliar with these terms? See the screening glossary

Daily refresh

We refresh the mirror daily. Every PDF report shows the dataset version that was used for that scan so your file has a clear audit trail.

Attribution

Screening data is provided by OpenSanctions and used under OpenSanctions' terms. Please visit their site for dataset documentation and licensing.

www.opensanctions.org

Using Moon Scan does not grant you a separate licence to redistribute the underlying OpenSanctions data. Follow OpenSanctions' terms if you need the raw datasets yourself.