Sanctions list
The UK Sanctions List (FCDO)
The FCDO's UK Sanctions List is the single UK designation list — since 28 January 2026 it has absorbed OFSI's consolidated asset-freeze list. CompliAPI parses the official XML daily.
- Publisher
- UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
- List type
- Sanctions
- Refresh
- Ingested daily
- API list slug
uk_fcdo_sanctions- Official source
- The UK Sanctions List on GOV.UK
- License
- Open Government Licence v3.0
About this list
The UK Sanctions List is published by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018. It records every person, entity and ship designated under UK sanctions regimes, with a statement of reasons for each designation.
Since 28 January 2026 it is the sole UK designation list: OFSI's separate consolidated asset-freeze list was retired into it. If your screening still points at the old OFSI file, this is the list that replaced it.
The official XML gives passports, national identifiers, business registration numbers, emails and websites their own fields. Crypto wallet addresses appear only in the free-text 'other information' and statement-of-reasons fields, so CompliAPI additionally scans those fields for wallet addresses.
What CompliAPI extracts
- Email addresses
- Websites and domains
- Government-issued IDs — passports, national identifiers, business registration numbers
- Crypto wallet addresses (extracted from designation free-text fields)
How CompliAPI handles it
Official XML, daily
CompliAPI downloads the FCDO's XML publication daily. Each designation is parsed per listed party; a person listed under several regimes appears once per regime with distinct IDs, exactly as published.
Structured fields plus free-text extraction
Emails, websites and identity documents come from their dedicated XML elements. Wallet addresses are extracted from the free-text fields where the FCDO records them, with the chain inferred from the address format.
Reconciled with delistings tracked
Each run is reconciled source-by-source: identifiers that leave the UK list stop matching and are recorded as delistings, without touching any other list's data.
Screen against this list
Every /screen endpoint checks all enabled lists by default and names the list behind each match. Add the ?lists= filter to restrict a request to this source.
GET /api/v1/screen/email/{email}?lists=uk_fcdo_sanctions
curl "https://api.compliapi.com/api/v1/screen/email/ops@example-trading.co?lists=uk_fcdo_sanctions" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $COMPLIAPI_TOKEN"Response
{
"value": "ops@example-trading.co",
"flagged": false,
"sanctioned": false,
"lists_checked": ["uk_fcdo_sanctions"],
"matches": []
}Frequently asked questions
Is this the same as the OFSI consolidated list?
It replaced it. On 28 January 2026 OFSI's consolidated asset-freeze list was retired into the FCDO's UK Sanctions List, which is now the single UK designation list. CompliAPI screens against that successor list.
How does CompliAPI find crypto addresses in the UK list?
The FCDO's XML has no dedicated wallet-address field — addresses appear in the free-text 'other information' and statement-of-reasons sections. CompliAPI scans those fields and extracts anything matching known address formats, tagged with the inferred chain.
How often is the UK Sanctions List refreshed in CompliAPI?
Daily. New designations become matchable on the next run, and identifiers removed by the FCDO are recorded as delistings at the same cadence.
What license covers the UK sanctions data?
The FCDO publishes the list under the Open Government Licence v3.0, which permits reuse with attribution to the source.
Does a UK list match set sanctioned: true?
Yes. The UK Sanctions List is classified as sanctions data, so any match sets both flagged and sanctioned in the response, with the match naming uk_fcdo_sanctions as its list.
Related
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The EU consolidated financial sanctions list
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OFAC API — screen against the official SDN list
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Screen against UK Sanctions List data
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