Watchlists
Required Data
- Business Name
- The legal name of the Business you are verifying. This should be the name the Business has registered with the U.S. IRS or the Secretary of State in their state of incorporation.
- Business Addresses
- A list including the physical addresses of a business. For larger companies, this commonly includes the address of their headquarters (HQ) location.
- Taxpayer Identification Number
- A unique 9-digit number that is used by the IRS to identify a business entity
Optional Data
- Peoples
- A list of people associated with the business
- Business Structure
- If you want to check against a Sole Proprietorship or LLC
- Website Address
Watchlists
- Checks if the business appears on any watchlists
Watchlist Configuration Options
There are several configuration options to reduce false positives, including:
- Date of Birth Filter for Submitted People
- Entity and Individual Name Fuzzy Match Tolerance
- Selecting specific federal agencies and watchlist lists to run business names and individuals against each business
Watchlist Parameter Tolerance
The parameters of the Watchlist tolerance or matching threshold can be adjusted to either Low, Medium, or High for entity and individual names in the dashboard settings:
- Low: This parameter allows for an edit distance of zero, which will be a strict match to the exact name of a given entity/individual in the watchlist to produce a hit. An exact match is defined as when any of those business and/or people names (or an alias of each name) contain words that are present in any of the names of an entity found in any of the watchlists.
- Medium: This parameter allows for an edit distance of one, which means a watchlist hit will be surfaced if the search term differs from a name of a given entity in the watchlist by one character/letter.
- High: This parameter will be the most risk-averse option, however, this setting will likely result in more false positives by relaxing the fuzzy matching parameters.
Watchlist Responses
- Success: No Hitssome text
- No Watchlist hits were identified
- Failure: Hitssome text
- X Watchlists hit(s) have been identified
List of Watchlists
Entity List (EL)
Bureau of Industry and Security
Denied Persons List (DPL)
Bureau of Industry and Security
Military End User (MEU)
Bureau of Industry and Security
Unverified List (UVL)
Bureau of Industry and Security
ITAR Debarred (DTC)
State Department
Nonproliferation Sanctions (ISN)
State Department
Capta List (CAP)
Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
Foreign Sanctions Evaders (FSE)
Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
Non-SDN Menu-Based Sanctions (NS-MBS)
Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
Non-SDN Iranian Sanctions (NS-ISA)
Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies List (NS-CMIC)
Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
Non-SDN Palestinian Legislative Council List (PLC)
Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
Specially Designated Nationals (SDN)
Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
Sectoral Sanctions Identifications List (SSI)
Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
