Dow Jones Risk & Compliance API
Dow Jones Risk & Compliance provides APIs at developer.dowjones.com, including Search 2.0, Screening and Monitoring, and bulk data feeds for sanctions and PEP screening. Access is not self-serve: it is gated behind enterprise subscriptions and partnership agreements.
Frequently asked questions
Dow Jones Risk & Compliance scores A on the API Report Card. Dow Jones Risk & Compliance provides APIs at developer.dowjones.com, including Search 2.0, Screening and Monitoring, and bulk data feeds for sanctions and PEP screening. Access is not self-serve: it is gated behind enterprise subscriptions and partnership agreements.
Dow Jones Risk & Compliance has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Dow Jones Risk & Compliance is a global risk intelligence platform providing structured risk data, screening tools, and due diligence services for AML/KYC, sanctions, anti-corruption, and third-party risk management.
Compliance, Typically for mid-to-large financial institutions, banks, insurance companies, and multinational corporations with regulatory obligations around AML, KYC, sanctions screening, and third-party due diligence. Compliance teams use it daily for screening customers and third parties against sanctions lists, PEP databases, and adverse media.
Major player with ~$300M revenue and ~11.8% market share in the AML/KYC data market (Burton-Taylor 2024). Backed by Dow Jones/News Corp brand. Widely recognized alongside LSEG and LexisNexis as a top-tier compliance data provider.
Yes, stores and provides access to sanctions screening results, PEP checks, adverse media hits, due diligence reports, and ongoing monitoring alerts. This is mission-critical compliance data that financial institutions rely on to meet regulatory obligations (AML/CFT).
~20+ years old. Dow Jones has offered risk/compliance data since the early 2000s. Recently invested in AI-powered due diligence (Integrity Check) and modernized the RiskCenter platform.
Integration with internal systems is difficult despite API availability. Third-party integration challenges reported by multiple reviewers. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include LSEG (Refinitiv World-Check), LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Moody's (Bureau van Dijk), SAS Anti-Money Laundering, Sanction Scanner. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.
Yes. Supergood maintains an unofficial Dow Jones Risk & Compliance API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Dow Jones Risk & Compliance data. See the Dow Jones Risk & Compliance integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/dow-jones-risk-compliance-api.