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SanctionsLookup Launches Real-Time Sanctions Screening Software as OFAC's "Economic Fury" Intensifies Compliance Pressure on U.S. Businesses
OFAC's "Economic Fury" campaign has sanctioned more than 1,000 Iran-related targets since February 2025, with new designations continuing to hit the list at a rapid pace. SanctionsLookup launches real-time screening software so U.S. businesses stop relying on yesterday's OFAC data.
SanctionsLookup, a real-time sanctions screening software provider, today announced its official launch, offering U.S. businesses an automated, API-first solution for OFAC compliance.
The platform arrives as the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control continues to expand its Iran-related sanctions list at an accelerated pace under the "Economic Fury" campaign, creating a growing screening burden for U.S. businesses that must avoid dealings with sanctioned parties.
OFAC Sanctions Data That Never Stops Moving
Since February 2025, OFAC has sanctioned more than 1,000 Iran-related individuals, entities, vessels, and aircraft as part of the "Economic Fury" campaign, a maximum pressure strategy the Trump administration has described as "the financial equivalent of a bombing campaign." New designations are being added multiple times per week, spanning Iranian oil networks, shadow banking intermediaries, missile procurement networks, and cryptocurrency wallets used for sanctions evasion.
For U.S. businesses subject to OFAC compliance, including fintechs, payment processors, financial institutions, and any company onboarding customers or processing transactions, the pace of change creates a direct operational problem: screening against OFAC data that was accurate last week may no longer be accurate today.
"Stale OFAC data creates the most dangerous kind of compliance risk: the kind a business does not know it has. When designations are changing daily, a clean result from yesterday's list can become false comfort today."
— A spokesperson for SanctionsLookup
Built for the Speed of Modern Sanctions Enforcement
SanctionsLookup is designed to eliminate the compliance gap created by stale data and manual processes. The platform screens individuals, entities, vessels, aircraft, and crypto wallets against OFAC's SDN List and Consolidated Sanctions List in real time, with sanctions data continuously synced as OFAC publishes updates.
Responses are returned in under 300 milliseconds, making the API suitable for onboarding flows, transaction monitoring, and any workflow that requires low-latency screening.
The platform's fuzzy matching engine handles the complexity that makes manual screening unreliable at scale: typos, aliases, alternate name spellings, and multi-script names across Cyrillic, Arabic, Hanzi, and other non-Latin scripts.
Teams can submit additional identifiers, passport numbers, national IDs, dates of birth, and nationality, alongside name queries to improve match precision and reduce the false positives that slow compliance reviews. Every result includes a human-readable explanation of why a subject was flagged, alongside a confidence score.
The API supports both single-subject screening and batch screening of up to 20 subjects per request through one unified endpoint, helping teams optimize throughput without juggling separate endpoints for different screening workflows.
Each subject returns its own structured JSON result, and custom reference IDs can be passed with each request for direct database mapping, making it straightforward to integrate into existing KYC, AML, and KYB workflows.
No Contracts, No Minimums, No Sales Calls
SanctionsLookup is built for U.S. businesses that need enterprise-grade screening without enterprise procurement. The platform offers a modern, developer-first API with startup-friendly monthly plans, no annual contracts, no lock-ins and no minimums, plus limited free trial access so teams can test real OFAC screening before committing.
The platform is designed for U.S. businesses of all sizes, from early-stage fintechs building their first compliance stack to financial institutions and payment processors modernizing their sanctions screening infrastructure.
Supported use cases include customer onboarding, transaction screening, ongoing monitoring and periodic re-screening as OFAC lists are updated.
Run Your First Sanctions Check Now
SanctionsLookup is available immediately. U.S. businesses can run a live OFAC screening check, review full API documentation, and obtain a free API key at sanctionslookup.com. No credit card or sales call is required to get started.
About SanctionsLookup
SanctionsLookup provides real-time OFAC screening software for U.S. businesses that need fast, defensible sanctions checks. Built as a developer-first API, the platform helps fintechs, financial institutions, payment processors, and compliance teams screen customers, counterparties, and transactions against current U.S. Treasury sanctions data. Learn more at sanctionslookup.com
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