Welcome to the ProofAML blog

Ask a compliance officer where their screening vendor's sanctions data actually comes from — which authorities, refreshed how often, under what license — and watch how fast the confident answer runs out. Most vendors don't publish it. You get "1,000+ global lists," "real-time coverage," "AI-powered intelligence," and a logo to point at.

For a regulated buyer, that is backwards. You are the one who answers to OFAC, the FCA, BaFin, MAS. The data lineage is your audit trail, not your vendor's marketing copy. If you can't see the source, you can't defend the decision — you can only point at a brand and hope it carries weight.

ProofAML is built on the opposite premise, and the name says it: proof of AML. We consolidate global sanctions and watchlist designations from the official issuing authorities into a single, queryable corpus (politically-exposed-person coverage is on the roadmap, and when it ships it will arrive the same way: sources first) — and we publish where every record comes from, before you ever talk to us. This blog is where we show that work.

Proof, not assurances

The transparency leaders in this category have never been the commercial screening vendors — they are the open-data projects, OpenSanctions chief among them, that pioneered publishing sources in the open. We stand on that shoulder and credit it. What we add is the layer built for a compliance team that owns the audit trail: every entity in our corpus traces back to the authority that designated it and the specific list it sits on.

That is what "proof of AML" means in practice. A screening hit is only as defensible as the lineage behind it — the authority, the program, the list version, the designation date. When those are public and legible, a match is something you can stand behind in an exam. When they are hidden inside a vendor's black box, it is something you have to take on faith. We would rather you check.

What we publish

Everything below is live and browseable right now — no signup, no sales call:

• Sources — the data catalog. Every list we screen against, named: the issuing authority, its jurisdiction, its update cadence, and the license under which we redistribute it. If a source isn't ready, we say so rather than imply it is live.
• Programs — the sanctions programs and legal bases (executive orders, EU regulations, UN Security Council resolutions) that authorities designate under.
• Every listed entity — the full corpus, one page per record, each with its source lineage.
• Recently designated — a running timeline of the newest additions across the lists we publish, so you can see a delta the day it lands.
• AML/CFT jurisdiction guides — reference explainers on the anti-money-laundering and sanctions frameworks behind the lists — who administers them, what they require, and how they connect to the screening you actually do.

What this blog will cover

Three things, on a predictable rhythm:

1. Screening explainers. Evergreen, vendor-neutral pieces on sanctions obligations, methodology, and the mechanics of screening — the OFAC 50 Percent Rule, list-change diffing, false-positive hygiene, what "PEP" actually means across jurisdictions.
2. The monthly enforcement digest. A skimmable roundup of the prior month's notable designations and enforcement actions across the authorities we track — OFAC, the EU Council, UK OFSI, the UN Security Council, and Global Affairs Canada — each entry citing the authority's own primary announcement, and each tied to the concrete "what should a screening team check this month." Every claim in the digest links to the official source it came from. That is the transparency posture, demonstrated rather than asserted.
3. Source notes. Short posts when we add a new list, change how we ingest an existing one, or ship a new dataset — so the catalog's history is legible, not just its current state.

Every post links straight into the underlying, screenable corpus. That is deliberate: the blog is where we explain what changed and why it matters, and the data catalog is where you go to check your own book against it.

Start where you can see everything

You can read the full source catalog and browse every listed entity right now — before you sign anything or talk to anyone. That is the whole idea. The evidence comes first.

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