C Pre-configured Watch List Information

This appendix contains details of each of the pre-configured watch lists that can be used by Customer Screening.

HM Treasury Watch List

The HM Treasury publishes a sanctions list that can be used for screening in Customer Screening. The sanctions list provides a consolidated list of targets listed by the United Nations, European Union, and the United Kingdom under legislation relating to current financial sanctions regimes. For more information, visit the HM Treasury website.

Customer Screening uses the watch list in a semi-colon delimited form. Click the following link to download the .csv file.

https://ofsistorage.blob.core.windows.net/publishlive/ConList.csv

OFAC Watch List

The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, and those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. For more information, visit the Treasury website.

Customer Screening supports the OFAC Specially Designated Nationals and OFAC Consolidated Sanctions watch lists.

The OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) watch list must be downloaded in three parts:

https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/sdn.csv

https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/add.csv

https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/alt.csv

The OFAC Consolidated Sanctions List watch list must be downloaded in three parts:

https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/consolidated/cons_prim.csv

https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/consolidated/cons_add.csv

https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/consolidated/cons_alt.csv

EU Watch List

The European Union applies sanctions or restrictive measures to achieve certain objectives as mentioned in the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and defined in Article 11 of the Treaty on the European Union. The European Commission offers a consolidated list containing the names and identification details of all persons, groups, and entities targeted by these financial restrictions. For more information, visit the European Commission website.

To download the consolidated list, follow these steps:
  1. Go to https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/europeaid/fsd/fsf#!/account and create a user name and password to the site.
  2. Navigate to https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/europeaid/fsd/fsf#!/files and open the settings for the crawler file.
  3. Copy the URL for 1.0 XML (Based on XSD). This will be in the format https:// webgate.ec.europa.eu/europeaid/fsd/fsf/public/files/ xmlFullSanctionsList/content?token=[username]. You must replace the [username] placeholder with the user name you have created.
  4. Enter this URL in your run profile or download task.

UN Consolidated Watch List

The United Nations (UN) or United Nations Security Council consolidated list is a watch list that includes all individuals and entities who are subject to sanctions measures imposed by the Security Council. For more information, visit the UN Security Council website.

Download the consolidated list from https://www.un.org/sc/suborg/sites/www.un.org.sc.suborg/files/consolidated.xml.