OFAC SDN List Search

The Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") of the US Department of the Treasury 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. OFAC acts under Presidential wartime and national emergency powers, as well as authority granted by specific legislation, to impose controls on transactions and freeze foreign assets under US jurisdiction. Many of the sanctions are based on United Nations and other international mandates, are multilateral in scope, and involve close cooperation with allied governments.

As part of its enforcement efforts, OFAC publishes a list of individuals and companies owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, targeted countries. It also lists individuals, groups, and entities, such as terrorists and narcotics traffickers designated under programs that are not country-specific. Collectively, such individuals and companies are called "Specially Designated Nationals" or "SDNs." Their assets are blocked and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from dealing with them.

The SDN list is frequently updated. There is no predetermined timetable, but rather names are added or removed as necessary and appropriate.

ISTmedWatch ships with the latest version of the OFAC SDN list and offers batch and interactive search capabilities. The data is automatically updated without manual intervention ensuring that customers are always current. ISTmedWatch is designed to automate the OFAC SDN screening process and to keep record of the processed records for audit and compliance purposes. In addition to OFAC SDN, ISTmedWatch can search against OIG LEIE, CMS opt out, GSA EPLS and other custom user supplied lists.

The main advantages of ISTmedWatch are: