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Run a sanctions screen on that company name against OFAC, EU, and UN lists with a 0.6 similarity threshold, and block the transaction if you find any matches above 0.7 similarity."},{"title":"KYC verification for new accounts","prompt":"We're onboarding a new business partner called 'Rostec International'. Can you screen them against all major sanctions lists and flag them as high-risk if they match anything on the OFAC SDN or UN consolidated lists, even with partial name similarity?"},{"title":"Bulk counterparty compliance review","prompt":"I need you to screen these five vendor names — 'Sberbank', 'Rosneft Trading', 'Lukoil Export', 'Novatek Finance', and 'Surgutneftegaz' — against the OFAC, EU, and UN sanctions lists and give me a summary of which ones are flagged and what their similarity scores are."}],"resultDescription":"Returns a list of matched entities with their name, the sanctions list source (ofac, eu, or un), the specific sanction programs they appear under, all known aliases, and a fuzzy similarity score between 0 and 1 indicating how closely the input name matches each result.","failureModes":["Missing required 'name' query parameter returns a 400 error","Invalid 'lists' value (not in ofac/eu/un) returns a 400 error","Threshold value outside 0-1 range returns a 400 error","No matches found returns an empty results array (not an error)","Service unavailable or timeout returns a 5xx error","Payment not authorized returns a 402 Payment Required"],"whenToPreferThis":"Use this endpoint when you need to screen a name against multiple major sanctions lists (OFAC, EU, UN) in a single call with fuzzy matching. Prefer this over manual database lookups or single-list checks when building payment compliance workflows, KYC pipelines, or any agent that sends money to external parties. The fuzzy matching with similarity scores handles name variants and aliases that exact-match systems would miss.","instructions":null,"reviewSummary":null,"reviewSummaryHighlights":null,"reviewSummaryConcerns":null,"reviewSummaryGeneratedAt":null,"activationCount":0,"lastUsedAt":null,"lastSuccessfullyRanAt":null,"lastHealthCheckAt":"2026-10-11T12:44:47.495Z","isFirstParty":false,"canonicalSlug":"sanctions-list-screening-api-a15928a5"}