Watchlist coverage now includes Politically Exposed Persons

OFAC SDN and Non-SDN, UN Consolidated List, World Bank ineligible parties

Politically exposed persons across national and sub-national government, sourced from primary records

• Federal executive, legislative, and judicial leadership, plus federal regulators

• All 50 state governors, plus US territory governors

• Framework: FATF Recommendations 12 & 22, FinCEN FIN-2008-G005, Bank Secrecy Act

• Cabinet ministers, Supreme Court, Bank of Canada
• All 13 provincial and territorial premiers
• Framework: FATF Recommendations 12 & 22

• MEPs from all 27 EU member states, collected via the EP Open Data API

• EU supranational institutions: Commission, Council, ECB, CJEU, and more

• Framework: EU Regulation 2024/1624, FATF Recommendations 12 & 22

• Government and military leadership in 30+ countries across Asia and the Middle East

• Automatic critical-risk classification for FATF blacklist jurisdictions (North Korea, Iran, Myanmar); elevated risk tier for FATF greylist jurisdictions

• Every Russian official on file, across all branches of government and strategic state-owned enterprises, is classified critical risk with no exceptions, including routing through third countries

• Reflects Russia’s suspension from FATF membership, EU AML blacklisting, and active ICC arrest warrants against senior officials

Every PEP record is sourced directly from government publications, updated weekly, with a documented provenance chain back to the source

LLM-assisted parsing normalizes dozens of source documents per jurisdiction into a single standardized record format

What’s included today isn’t the ceiling. We’re continually adding coverage across regions and position types.

Each PEP is assigned a risk level based on the prominence and authority of their position, with heightened risk for officials in FATF blacklisted or greylisted jurisdictions

Full titles and, where available, appointment or confirmation dates, confirmation vote tallies, and other identifying detail

PEP roster selection maps to FATF Recommendations 12 & 22, FinCEN FIN-2008-G005, and equivalent Canadian and EU regulations

Position-specific, primary-sourced records extend screening to state and provincial officials, not just heads of state and cabinet-level names

Classifications update against FATF actions and active investigations instead of sitting static between vendor refresh cycles

PEP is screened through the same KYB Watchlist call you’re already making. Nothing new to stand up.

Run enhanced due diligence that reaches sub-national officials and regulators most screens stop short of

Screen suppliers and business counterparties for politically exposed ownership or control beyond top-line executive checks

Paired with Proof, PEP screening can add a layer of verification on wire authorization signers and beneficiary officials

Neither. PEP is screened as part of the existing KYB Watchlist product, alongside sanctions lists, at no additional cost.

Yes, live now via the KYB API. There is no separate console view for Watchlist or PEP screening today.

No. If you’re already calling KYB Watchlist screening, PEP results are included automatically.

Our PEP sourcing pipeline pulls from primary government sources, region by region, rather than licensing a commercial PEP database. Full source documentation is linked from the API docs.