Global Sanctions Data is a structured sanctions data asset covering designated individuals, organizations, vessels, aircraft, sanctions programmes and associated parties across major international, regional and country-specific authorities. It is maintained for sanctions screening, customer due diligence, transaction screening, third-party risk management, ongoing monitoring, investigations and broader financial crime compliance workflows.

ZIGRAM covers 1,700+ sanctions lists and programmes from 100+ regulators and agencies across approximately 80 countries and jurisdictions, comprising around 260,000 sanctions subjects, entities and associations. Authorities and official sources monitored include the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), United Nations Security Council (UNSC), European Union (EU), United Kingdom Sanctions List, Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), Global Affairs Canada (GAC), Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), Japan Ministry of Finance (MOF) and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Coverage also includes other country-specific regulators, ministries, enforcement bodies and competent authorities..

ZIGRAM continuously monitors sanctions sources for new designations, listing amendments, alias and identifier changes, corrections, programme and regime changes, status updates, delistings, revocations and record removals. OFAC, UNSC, UK Sanctions List and EU sources are updated every 4 hours, while other sanctions authorities are updated daily.

Sanctions records may include primary names, alternate names and aliases, original-script names, dates and places of birth, nationalities, residential and registered addresses, passport, national-ID and other identification numbers, company-registration information, entity type and legal form, vessel and aircraft information, sanctions authority, sanctions programme or regime, designation and listing dates, record status, ownership and control information, relationships and associations, and source references and timestamps.

Sanctions information is collected from sources that may differ in language, script, format, terminology and data structure. ZIGRAM cleanses, normalizes and organizes this information into consistent data fields, using cross-source checks, record reconciliation, and duplicate and consistency checks. ZIGRAM also structures available information relating to ownership, control, beneficial owners, directors and officers, parent and subsidiary entities, associated individuals and organizations, and other related parties to support sanctions risk assessment, alert investigation and enhanced due diligence.

ZIGRAM combines in-house research expertise with automated, semi-automated and manual collection processes. Its sanctions-data lifecycle includes source identification and verification, data collection, normalization, delta validation, cross-source checks, variance testing, record reconciliation, duplicate and consistency checks, research review and ongoing quality monitoring. These controls are designed to improve data consistency, transparency and screening usability.

Sanctions data can be delivered through sanctions data APIs and scheduled data feeds in CSV, JSON, XML, Excel and customer-specific formats. The data can be integrated into existing AML systems, KYC platforms, screening engines, payment-processing environments, case-management systems and third-party-risk workflows.