Fraud, Compliance 5 min read
Taktile and OpenSanctions partner to strengthen AML screening with instant access to 2M+ entities
Taktile is proud to announce its reseller partnership with OpenSanctions, a global provider of consolidated sanctions lists, politically exposed persons (PEP) data, and watchlist information.
With direct access to OpenSanctions' comprehensive dataset via Taktile's Agentic Decision Platform, compliance and fraud prevention teams can now make faster, more confident decisions without the complexity and delays of traditional data integration.
Key takeaways
- Bypass data integration entirely with instant access: Direct access to OpenSanctions' comprehensive dataset, eliminating months of integration work and ongoing data management overhead.
- Screen against the most comprehensive dataset available: Consolidated sanctions lists, PEP data, criminal watchlists, and regulatory databases – all cleaned, de-duplicated, and continuously updated.
- Strengthen compliance and fraud detection with transparent, auditable data: Full traceability for helping teams meet regulatory expectations with explainable, audit-ready decisions.
- Continuously adapt screening strategies with agentic AI: Taktile's agentic AI capabilities to rapidly test, refine, and optimize screening rules and risk policies using OpenSanctions data.
Meet OpenSanctions: Data you can trust, on people you can't
OpenSanctions provides clean, consolidated, and transparent data on sanctions, politically exposed persons, and entities of criminal interest. Through its open-source data pipeline, OpenSanctions helps compliance teams, investigators, and risk managers identify high-risk individuals and organizations with confidence.
As Taktile's Co-founder and CEO, Maik Taro Wehmeyer, explains:
"Compliance teams shouldn't have to choose between comprehensive coverage and operational efficiency. Now, we're giving teams instant access to the data they need to screen quickly and effectively."
Friedrich Lindenberg, Managing Director of OpenSanctions, adds:
"Financial institutions need both high-quality sanctions and PEP data and the infrastructure to act on it decisively. By partnering with Taktile, we're ensuring teams can manage AML risk, prevent fraud, and meet regulatory obligations with greater speed and confidence."
Deploy smarter compliance strategies without integration complexity
Financial institutions face mounting pressure to screen customers, transactions, and counterparties against an ever-expanding universe of sanctions lists, PEP databases, and regulatory watchlists. Yet traditional approaches create significant operational friction: compliance teams must navigate multiple data vendors, manage complex integrations, reconcile inconsistent formats, and constantly update feeds as regulations evolve.
OpenSanctions solves this challenge by providing a single, consolidated, and transparent dataset that combines authoritative sources from around the world. Now, through Taktile's reseller partnership, financial institutions can access this powerful dataset immediately – no integration required.
By combining OpenSanctions' high-quality data with Taktile's agentic AI capabilities, the partnership enables compliance and fraud prevention teams to implement sophisticated screening strategies with less technical overhead, making smarter decisions with stronger risk controls and complete auditability.
Core benefits of using Taktile and OpenSanctions together
By leveraging Taktile's direct access to OpenSanctions data, compliance and fraud prevention teams are empowered to screen customers and transactions faster, more accurately, and with full transparency. Key benefits include:
- Instant deployment without integration effort: Eliminate months of data integration work by accessing OpenSanctions' comprehensive dataset directly within Taktile, reducing time-to-value and freeing technical resources for higher-priority projects.
- Comprehensive, transparent coverage across all risk categories: Screen against consolidated sanctions lists, PEP databases, criminal watchlists, debarred entities, and regulatory lists from 314 global sources – with full transparency into data lineage and updates through OpenSanctions' open-source methodology.
- Built-in compliance with evolving AML and sanctions regulations: Ensure consistent, explainable screening decisions backed by authoritative data sources, with complete auditability and traceability embedded in every decision workflow within Taktile.
Looking ahead, the partnership between Taktile and OpenSanctions doesn't just simplify sanctions and compliance screening; it positions financial institutions to continuously adapt as sanctions regimes evolve, new watchlists emerge, and regulatory expectations intensify.
With agentic AI capable of monitoring screening performance, recommending policy refinements, and safely implementing rule changes, fraud and compliance teams can maintain control in a rapidly changing risk landscape.
