Search the Office of Foreign Asset Control's Sanctions Program Listings:
FINRA is pleased to offer an automated method of searching the U.S. Treasury's Office
of Foreign Asset Control's (OFAC) Sanctions Program Listings. OFAC regulations prohibit
transactions with certain persons and organizations listed on the OFAC website as
"Terrorists" and "Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons," as well as
listed embargoed countries and regions. Firms must check this list on an ongoing
basis to ensure that potential customers and existing customers are not prohibited
persons or entities and are not from embargoed countries or regions before transacting
any business with them.
Disclaimer:
FINRA and its affiliates make no warranties or other representations that a firm's
use of the OFAC search tool will satisfy their regulatory responsibilities with
respect to OFAC regulations.
Tips:
- You may want to review the OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List and the
Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) list prior to running your search to better
understand the formatting used by the Treasury Department's, Office of Foreign Assets
Control.
- The three different search options return progressively more restrictive results.
You may want to change the search option to reduce the resulting matches.
Help:
For assistance with the OFAC Search Tool, please
E-Mail Us or call 202-728-6964. You may also obtain assistance by contacting
the Office of
Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) directly. To visit the OFAC Web Site directly,
please go to: http://www.ustreas.gov/ofac/
Automating Searches:
Several firms have asked us about how to automate searches of the OFAC Sanctions
Program Listings. While FINRA does not currently plan to offer this service, the
OFAC Web site
offers ASCII, DOS Delimited, Windows Delimited, and UNIX-Ready Delimited versions
of the Sanctions Program Listings which can be used to develop an automated search
function. You may search the OFAC listings for multiple names or phrases using the
multi-name search.
