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🌏 We’ve been working hard to expand and deepen our #PEP data — adding 70+ new parliamentary and legislative chambers in the last month alone. It's part of a quality drive focused on adding underrepresented PEP sources from countries that are traditionally harder to screen due to data gaps - something our #EveryPolitician project is working hard to address. The most recent additions also illustrate what some of our recent tooling investments buy us: the ability to go deep on a single jurisdiction's political structure — at both a state and local level. Our dataset browser is a handy tool for understanding the scope of the data available through OpenSanctions, where it comes from, and whether we cover the jurisdiction your team requires. You can view the most recent additions through the following steps: Head to ➡️ https://lnkd.in/esEUt69S Toggle on ➡️ "show recent additions first" Use the drop-down to filter to PEPs 👤 More in comments 👇 #PEPdata #KYC #AML

Building an entity-resolved graph is one thing. Running it in production is another. Following our Bridge Meetup Prague workshop, Paco N. and Christophe Willemsen have published the complete implementation, showing how to combine Senzing, Neo4j, GraphAware Hume, Open Ownership and OpenSanctions into a production-ready entity-resolved knowledge graph. If you're working on entity resolution, beneficial ownership, or connected intelligence, it's a practical resource worth exploring. 👉 Repository: https://hubs.ly/Q04nTk_S0

🇦🇺 Tranche 2 reforms have taken effect in Australia today. Many professional services — including legal and accounting firms — will be required to carry out #AML and #CTF screening and monitoring under the new regulations. As part of a wider drive to strengthen our global #PEP collection, we’ve expanded our Australian PEP offering. Read our latest blog post about how our ongoing improvements to our PEP data tooling help us go deep into a single jurisdiction’s political structure (link in comments) 👇

🔓 In an industry built on siloed, proprietary datasets, how can we pool data across organizations, industries, and supply chains? The Linux Foundation recently conducted a study in partnership with BrightQuery, FINOS, and Overture Maps Foundation to address this very need. They examined how #opensource collaboration can transform the financial services industry through lowered operational costs, improved compliance, and a whole lot more innovation and creativity. Our Founder, Friedrich Lindenberg, also shared his thoughts on data access, #OpenSanctions’ licensing model, and the opportunities that arise when data is opened up. Read The Linux Foundation’s full report and infographic below 👇

⚖️ Self-hosting or hosted API — which one makes sense for your team? The matching and scoring capabilities are the same — what differs is the infrastructure, maintenance, and ultimately the cost. So how do you decide? 🏠 We think of it a bit like renting vs. buying. The hosted API means you pay for what you use, with no upkeep. Self-hosting provides greater control, but the maintenance costs are also yours to carry. If you're a compliance lead weighing the two, the decision usually comes down to: - Data residency requirements - In-house watchlists you need to screen against - Purchase and operating costs - Screening volume Our latest blog post breaks down the pricing structures, the pros and cons, and where each option pays off. Or if you'd rather talk it through, our sales team are on hand to help you assess which integration fits your team’s needs! Blog post in comments👇 #Compliance #RegTech #AML #KYC

📢 We’re looking forward to Sanctions SOS's #scm2026! Friedrich Lindenberg will join a panel exploring how teams can anticipate emerging sanctions evasion techniques and adapt their frameworks in an era of heightened scrutiny and enforcement. See below for conference details👇

✨ Join our team! ✨ OpenSanctions is hiring an Account Success Manager! We are looking for a great team player to build our customer relationships from onboarding through to long-term success, making sure our clients get the best out of our data and services. Recruiting on a rolling basis: https://lnkd.in/eemPRHup

Thanks to OpenSanctions for writing up their pick of the sessions at next week's #Dataharvest26. They spotlight sessions on data skills, investigative methods, illuminating corruption, using AI safely and more. OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. It was launched in 2015 as a freely available database to provide persons-of-interest data for journalists investigating financial crime. This year, they are one of the sponsors of Dataharvest -- we thank them for their support of our work, helping to bring journalists together and foster transparency across Europe! Read their highlights at the link in comments.

There's just over a week to go until Arena for Journalism in Europe’s #Dataharvest26. If you’d like to find out more about using our data in your investigations, come and say hi at our booth! 👋 And, if you’ve got a ticket but haven’t mapped out your schedule yet, we’ve compiled a list of sessions you won’t want to miss, from investigating crypto to delving into the opaque world of football sponsorships, to tracking the shadow fleet. Expect to hear from some of the best investigative journalists, coders, and analysts in the field, including speakers from Süddeutsche Zeitung, Investigate Europe, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) — with plenty of hands-on sessions to sharpen your #OSINT and data skills. Read our round-up here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e_5QCBYz #EIJC26