How to use the UK Sanctions List
How the UK Sanctions List search tool has been upgraded: new features, search ranking, and sharing search results.
Following the closure of the OFSI Consolidated List and its associated search tool, the UK sanctions list search tool has been upgraded, with new features now available:
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Results ranking
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Match highlighting
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Fuzzy searching
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Exact word or phrase
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Focused partial search
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Multi-select filters
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URLs for sharing search results
Ranking now orders your results, bringing the most relevant entries for your search to the top of the list. Exact matches are ranked above partial or fuzzy matches.
Matches of your search term(s) are now highlighted on the results grid, allowing you to see why a certain match has been made, and within what data fields. Click ‘more info’ to see additional matches in other fields.
Fuzzy search is a new tool that replaces up to 2 characters in each search term. Use this to help find alternate spellings names, or allow for spelling mistakes.
By default the search tool will return exact matches of any entered terms. You can also now make your search more precise by adding quotation marks around your search, “like so”, to return only entries containing that exact word or phrase.
Partial search has been focused to reduce the number of results returned. For all search queries, partial search finds where the search term is part of a longer word with the same initial letters. For example, a search for Alp would return any entries containing Alpha or Alphabet.
Multi-select filters now allow you to select more than one filter for a given category, allowing you to search within more than one regime, or for multiple sanction types.
Each search now generates a unique URL, allowing you to bookmark or share a link to your search with others. Bear in mind that search results are not static, and will change when the UK sanctions list is updated.