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OpenSanctions helps investigators find leads, allows companies to manage risk and enables technologists to build data-driven products.
OpenSanctions ↔️ Quantifind: smarter sanctions screening. Learn how our dataset now powers Quantifind’s Graphyte platform. New blog 👉 www.opensanctions.org/articles/202... #RegTech #AML
OpenSanctions and Quantifind join forces to deliver sanctions risk prevention tech
We partner with Quantifind to serve high-quality and transparent sanctions data to compliance teams via their AI-powered risk intelligence platform GraphyteTM.
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August 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
We’ve published an updated, improved and more deeply documented version of the data model and core data validation stack that drives OpenSanctions. Read more on our blog: www.opensanctions.org/articles/202...
Announcing FollowTheMoney 4.0
This week, we are releasing version 4.0 of the FollowTheMoney (FtM) toolchain.
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July 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Recommended article by @pudo.org @ @opensanctions.org
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What makes the handling of names in entity resolution so hard? Cultural complexity.
More than a Technical Problem: Name Matching in Sanctions Screening
In many fields, a name is just one of many clues you can lean on to pin down an identity. But in sanctions screening, a name might be all you’ve got. This is one of the core parts of our work: matchin...
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July 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Recent hobby: building up extensive reference data for name matching, including a database of company type filler words, and all human names from Wikidata. Check the open data assets here: opensanctions.github.io/rigour/data/
Data assets - rigour
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June 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Weaving politician metadata with LLMs: PoliLoom aims to extract & enrich Wikidata entries for politicians via OpenAI’s structured data API. Explore schema, multilingual handling & conflict resolution.

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PoliLoom – Loom for weaving politician's data
PoliLoom Hey there OpenSanctions community! I’m Johan. Friedrich asked me to have a go at some data extraction, and share the development process here, so let’s dive into it together. We’re about to ...
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June 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM