International Sanctions Monitoring (ISM)

Find out how ISM simplifies financial sanctions monitoring and helps you reduce the risk of compliance breaches.

Updates on each trading day
Monitoring of major sanctions authorities
Rapid identification
Attractive pricing

In a world where sanctions are constantly being updated, reliable monitoring is essential to ensure compliance. With complex and rapidly changing sanctions lists, it is vital to keep track of all the companies and securities affected.

With our International Sanctions Monitoring (ISM) product, we offer you an efficient way to keep track of sanctions lists issued by international authorities.

Find out how International Sanctions Monitoring can support your compliance processes.

ISM in Detail

Why is sanctions monitoring essential for companies?

Minimise financial risks
Protect reputation
Comply with legal requirement
Growing number of sanctions

Financial sanctions and trade restrictions are key tools in the enforcement of international security policy. Violations of these sanctions can result in heavy fines or reputational damage. Growing geopolitical tensions, such as Russia's war against Ukraine, have led to a significant increase in the number of sanctioned entities. This poses new challenges for compliance departments around the world.

Without external support, it is almost impossible to manage the increasing number of sanctions. Comprehensive sanctions monitoring is essential for compliance departments to meet legal requirements and minimise financial risks.

Which sanctions lists are included in ISM?

To help you maintain your sanctions lists, ISM includes the sanctions lists of the following sanctions authorities and their financial sanctions against institutions and organisations.

Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

Enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and national security objective

Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)

Coordinates the foreign and security policy actions of EU member states, including the imposition of sanctions

Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI)

Implementation and enforcement of financial sanctions in the UK

United Nations (UN)

Consolidated list of the United Nations Security Council

How does ISM support you in monitoring sanctions lists?

On each trading day, the sanctions lists of the relevant authorities are checked four times during the course of the day for any updates. Newly sanctioned entities are compared with our database and positive assignments of entities from the sanctions lists are marked accordingly in the WM database. The names of these sanctioned entities are mapped to our complete database of available financial instruments (more than 3 million). The result is an up-to-date list of sanctioned entities and financial instruments for each trading day.

In addition, a separate CSV file is available containing sanctioned entities from the sanctions lists that are not part of the WM database.

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Rising fines underline the importance of good monitoring

Fines for sanctions violations have increased significantly in recent years. In 2023 alone, the US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed fines totalling more than USD 1.5 billion – the highest amount ever recorded in a calendar year. This highlights the importance of ongoing sanctions monitoring to avoid compliance breaches.

Why WM Datenservice? Discover the benefits of collaborating with us on sanctions compliance

Outstanding coverage

WM key markets: 100% mapping with more than 3 million financial instruments and data records

Up-to-dateness

Lists of issuers and financial instruments updated on every trading day

Overview

Quick identification of sanctioned companies and securities

Simple integration

Access via established WM provision channels & standardised data formats

Reliability

Trusted partner to the financial industry since 1947

Support

Helpdesk available from 8am to 9pm to answer your questions.

Andreas Knabe

Head of Sales Experts

+49 69 2732 241

Any questions?
Please do not hesitate to contact us!

Our sales team is ready to answer all your questions. We will be happy to help you find the right solution and optimise data exchange in your company.

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between 9.00 and 17.00 hours.

Phone: +49 (0) 69 2732 – 100
Mail: sales(at)wmdaten.com