Refinitiv World-Check API
LSEG documents the World-Check One and Data APIs on its public developer portal, returning JSON with single, bulk, and delta screening requests. Access is contract-gated: licensing runs through an enterprise data agreement rather than self-serve signup.
Frequently asked questions
Refinitiv World-Check scores A on the API Report Card. LSEG documents the World-Check One and Data APIs on its public developer portal, returning JSON with single, bulk, and delta screening requests. Access is contract-gated: licensing runs through an enterprise data agreement rather than self-serve signup.
Refinitiv World-Check has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Refinitiv World-Check (now part of LSEG Risk Intelligence) is a sanctions, PEP (politically exposed persons), and adverse-media risk-intelligence database used for KYC/AML screening.
Compliance / Identity / KYC / Sanctions, Typically for banks, fintechs, and regulated institutions running KYC/AML and third-party risk screening. Compliance teams screen customers, counterparties, and third parties against World-Check's database for sanctions, PEP status, enforcement actions, and adverse media, via the World-Check One platform, bulk data files, or the World-Check On Demand API.
Industry-standard risk-intelligence dataset with 4M+ records, backed by LSEG. One of the most widely used sanctions/PEP screening sources globally.
No (inverted), The critical data is World-Check's own proprietary aggregated risk database, which customers query. It is not the customer's own trapped operating system-of-record data, so it fails the Tier A data test.
World-Check originated in the early 2000s, acquired by Thomson Reuters/Refinitiv, now LSEG. Mature, actively maintained with modern API-first delivery.
API/data licensing is costly and contract-gated. Integration tuning needed to manage false positives. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, ComplyAdvantage, Moody's (Bureau van Dijk), 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 Refinitiv World-Check API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Refinitiv World-Check data. See the Refinitiv World-Check integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/refinitiv-world-check-api.