How often should a sanctions list be checked?

As fast as your risk appetite requires. Sanctions sources are the clearest case for the shortest interval available, because a designation you screen against a day late is a day of exposure. Every 5 minutes is supported on Pro and Business.

Is this a replacement for a screening vendor?

No. This watches the public pages and tells you the moment their content changes, with a dated snapshot. Matching names against a list, and the workflow around a hit, stay with your screening system.

Which lists can be monitored?

Any that publish a publicly readable page: OFAC SDN and recent actions, the EU consolidated list, UK OFSI notices, the BIS Entity List, and UN Security Council pages among them. Pages behind a login cannot be monitored.

Can we show what a list said when we screened?

Yes. Every check stores a timestamped snapshot, so a decision taken on a given date can be tied to the version of the page that was live at the time.

Where do the alerts go?

Email on every plan, then Slack, Microsoft Teams, webhooks, and Google Sheets on paid plans, so a designation reaches the screening desk rather than an inbox nobody reads.

Sanctions list change monitoring | Website Change Tracker

What financial crime teams monitor

OFAC SDN & sanctions pages

Monitor the SDN list pages and recent-actions feeds on a fast schedule, so screening runs against today's list rather than last month's copy.

No new entries4 entries added

EU consolidated list

Watch the consolidated list page and its update notices. A designation added mid-week is an alert, not something found at the next scheduled refresh.

Updated 3 JunUpdated 27 Jun

UK OFSI notices

Track financial sanctions notices and the consolidated list page, including the general licences that change what is permitted.

2 general licences3 general licences

BIS Entity List & trade controls

Follow export-control listings and the rule pages behind them, where an addition can change what you are allowed to ship overnight.

No additions11 additions

UN Security Council lists

Watch the consolidated list and its press releases, so a designation flows into screening without waiting on a vendor feed.

Last amended AprLast amended Aug

PEP & watchlist sources

Monitor the public watchlist and enforcement pages your screening policy names, and keep a dated record of what each said when a decision was made.

Screening ref: v41Screening ref: v42

What the change alert looks like

One alert, showing the listing page as it stood and as it stands now, plus the dated snapshot behind the screening decision.

sanctionslist.example.gov/recent-actions12 Aug, 09:05 UTC

Recent actions, entry count

wasNo new entries this week.

now4 entries added, 1 entry removed.

Snapshot kept · previous version 12 Aug, 08:05 UTC

Guides to change monitoring

Regulatory change monitoring, explainedHow to build a watch list of regulators, standards bodies, and registers, and turn it into a process your auditors accept.

Monitor terms of service and policy changesWhy policy pages should be watched in full, and how the snapshot history becomes the audit trail.

The full guide to watching any page for changesThe general playbook: choosing what to watch, setting a cadence, and avoiding false alerts.

Sanctions list change monitoring