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 Supergood's 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.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
Yes, via a managed API layer. Supergood builds REST APIs and MCP servers for authenticated enterprise web apps, so AI agents and internal tools can read and write data programmatically. Site terms may apply to any integration approach, and how they apply is a determination each team makes for itself.
Not that we could find. As of August 2026 there is no official Refinitiv World-Check MCP server in any public registry, and no maintained community server we're aware of. We re-verify this periodically — report an inaccuracy below if we missed one.
Not natively. Refinitiv World-Check doesn't publish an MCP server, so MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex have nothing to connect to out of the box. If that changes, this page will reflect it.