EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List
The database kept by the European Commission that gathers, across all regimes, the persons, groups and entities whose assets the EU has frozen, published as files that screening tools can read.
The EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List is the database the European Commission keeps to gather, across all regimes, the persons, groups and entities whose assets the EU has frozen. Each EU regime has its own annex (Annex I of Regulation 269/2014 for Russia and Ukraine, the terrorism lists, the cyber regime, Iran, Syria, Belarus), and the Directorate-General for Financial Stability (FISMA) merges them. The Commission distributes the database on its Financial Sanctions Files platform as three XML files: GLOBAL, the full state of listings in force; DELTA, the changes since the last publication; ANNUAL, the history with amendments and delistings. As a rule, the update follows the same day the regulation appears in the Official Journal. Two limits matter for a compliance team. The list has no legal force of its own: where they differ, only the text published in the Official Journal is authoritative, and a name badly transliterated in the file protects no one. It also covers asset freezes only. The sectoral bans of Regulation 833/2014, the entities in the export annexes, the state-owned companies hit by a transaction ban are not on it, any more than the subsidiary 60 percent owned by a listed person. An insurer screening its book against this file alone would see the frozen names and miss much of what exposes it. Market screening tools load it alongside the SDN (Specially Designated Nationals) list of OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control), the list of OFSI (Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation) and, in France, the national freeze register, and screening rests on checking all four against each other.
Textbook case: a property and casualty insurer has 120,000 policyholders and claim payees. It loads the DELTA file every morning and rescreens the whole book against GLOBAL every week. One Monday, the DELTA adds 48 names; the tool throws 360 alerts, or 0.3 percent of the book, almost all false positives on common surnames. Two alerts hold after the date of birth is checked. The first blocks a premium refund of 1,850 euros, frozen and reported to the French Treasury. The second is a near miss: the file spelled the name with a different transliteration from the policy, and it was the date of birth, not the name, that made the match.
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