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Navigate changing sanctions with trusted data and expertise

By providing customised access to comprehensive financial crime and sanctions data, WorldCompliance™ Data enables your organization to synchronise watchlist screening and navigate continuously shifting sanctions, financial crime compliance and anti-bribery requirements.

Protect your business with structured, fielded profiles and streamline transaction workflows with WorldCompliance™ Data.
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Strengthen screening with comprehensive coverage backed by reliable sources

Sanctions and Enforcements

Coverage across 180 global sanctions lists, including OFAC, EU and UN, combined with information from 1,700 enforcement sources and court filings such as the US SEC, FBI and UK FCA.1

Adverse Media

Profiles linked to illicit activity sourced from thousands of reputable and reliable news media sources worldwide, providing valuable context for risk assessment.

Politically Exposed Persons

Includes extensive profiles of PEPs, their family members and close associates, with role and institution detail to support proportionate due diligence.

State Owned Enterprises

Government-owned and government-linked entities, including sovereign wealth funds, with ownership percentages, special voting rights and industry domains.

Ownership and Control

Profiles of businesses, vessels and aircraft owned or controlled by sanctioned parties, helping surface indirect exposure.

Registrations

Government registration lists such as FATCA registered institutions and marijuana registered businesses for specific compliance use cases.

Combat risk with customized enhanced due diligence

WorldCompliance™ Data is ideal for organisations that need to batch screen large customer and third-party populations quickly and efficiently, without compromising accuracy.

Tailor the data to your unique risk-based approach by selecting from more than 60 risk categories and subcategories to proactively support your compliance objectives:

  • Increase transaction screening efficiency
  • Reduce false positives and unnecessary manual review
  • Mitigate costly compliance and reputational risk
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WorldCompliance™ Data is a customizable, modular solution that offers flexible delivery options via seamless integration with Bridger Insight® XG, Firco™ Continuity or Compliance Lens, or hosted offline within your own network.

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WorldCompliance™ Data delivers comprehensive, fielded profiles of high-risk individuals and entities, continuously updated to support more accurate and efficient screening.

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Global research and coverage

  • Sanctions updates delivered up to four times daily within 24 hours of source publication
  • Eight research centres with 24/7 coverage
  • 450 researchers with geopolitical, cultural and linguistic expertise
  • Monitoring across 58 languages
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Rich, structured risk profiles

  • Sanctions, Ownership and Control and Enforcements
  • Politically Exposed Persons, including micro PEPs for Italy and Brazil
  • State-owned enterprises and sovereign wealth funds
  • Adverse media
  • Government registration lists such as FATCA registered institutions and marijuana registered businesses
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Granular attributes for fewer false positives

  • Date and place of birth
  • National ID types and numbers with issuer and dates
  • Multiple aliases and native scripts, including Chinese Commercial Code
  • Segment-level Last Updated timestamps and deceased indicators
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Flexible delivery

  • XML, Text Delimited and KZ
  • Delivery schedules aligned to operational needs
  • Integration with LexisNexis Risk Solutions screening platforms

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Empower your compliance journey

Our comprehensive data, advanced technology and global research expertise help you stay ahead of regulatory change and make confident, accurate decisions.

With sanctions updates delivered up to four times daily within 24 hours of source publication, your screening stays current and defensible.

WorldCompliance™ Data can help you:
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Expedite PEP and Sanction checks
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Streamline customer acquisition
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Mitigate the impact of global volatility
WorldCompliance™ Data is the ultimate database to mitigate compliance risks, enhance due diligence, and protect your organization’s reputation.

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LexisNexis® WorldCompliance™ Data Frequently Asked Questions

WorldCompliance™ Data is a structured global risk intelligence database that supports sanctions screening, AML, KYC and enhanced due diligence. It includes profiles of sanctioned entities, politically exposed persons, state-owned enterprises, enforcement subjects and adverse media risk.

Sanctions data is updated up to four times daily within 24 hours of publication at the source, helping organizations screen against the latest designations. Other risk segments are continuously maintained by a global research team to ensure timely, defensible coverage.

WorldCompliance™ Data contains more than 8 million risk profiles across individuals and organizations spanning 250 countries and territories. Coverage includes 180 global sanctions lists, more than 1,700 enforcement sources and adverse media sourced from thousands of reputable news outlets worldwide.

WorldCompliance™ Data can be delivered as a standalone data file or integrated directly into LexisNexis Risk Solutions screening platforms, including Bridger Insight® XG, Firco™ Continuity and Firco™ Trust, enabling flexible deployment aligned to your compliance workflows.

Yes. Data is structured into defined segments and more than 60 risk subcategories, allowing organizations to align screening, monitoring and due diligence to their internal risk frameworks.

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1. LexisNexis® WorldCompliance™ Data statistics, 2026
The WorldCompliance™ Data service is not provided by “consumer reporting agencies,” as that term is defined in the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. Non FCRA § 1681, et seq.) (“FCRA”) and does not constitute “consumer reports,” as that term is defined in the FCRA. Accordingly, WorldCompliance™ Data may not be used in whole or in part as a factor in determining eligibility for credit, insurance, employment or another purpose in connection with which a consumer report may be used under the FCRA. 
Due to the nature and origin of public record information, the public records and commercially available data sources used in reports may contain errors.