UK Data: Sanctions screening MCP Server

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UK Data: Sanctions screening is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 8 tools.

Screen people, companies and ships against UK, US OFAC, EU and UN sanctions lists, daily

Uptime history 21 hours of history

21 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

75 of 75 checks

Tools

read from the server

183 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check UK Data: Sanctions screening every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add sanctions-screening --transport http https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/sanctions-screening

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/sanctions-screening

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.sanctions-screening]
url = "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/sanctions-screening"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sanctions-screening": {
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/sanctions-screening"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "sanctions-screening": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/sanctions-screening"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 8

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

sanctions

eu_sanctions_check

Search the EU consolidated financial sanctions list for a person or organisation, with the EU programme and listing date. For EU counterparties and EU trade. (cost: 3 credits)

sanctions_check_company

Check whether a COMPANY or organisation is on the UK, US (OFAC), EU or UN sanctions lists, including trading names and aliases. For supplier and customer due diligence and approving payments to businesses. (cost: 3 credits)

sanctions_check_person

Check whether a named PERSON is on the UK, US (OFAC), EU or UN sanctions lists. Add date or year of birth and nationality to firm up or rule out a match. For onboarding a customer, vetting a director or shareholder, or approving a payment to an individual. (cost: 3 credits)

sanctions_check_ship

Check whether a SHIP or vessel is sanctioned (UK, US OFAC, EU, UN), by vessel name, former name or 7-digit IMO number. For shipping, chartering, freight and maritime insurance checks. (cost: 3 credits)

sanctions_screen

Screen a person, company or ship by name against the UK Sanctions List (FCDO/OFSI), the US OFAC lists, the UN Security Council list and the EU financial sanctions list in one call. Matching tolerates transliteration and spelling variants; date of birth and country re-rank matches but never hide a name match. Returns the listed record, why it matched and which lists were checked. Covers the UK, US OFAC (SDN and Consolidated), EU and UN lists; does not cover politically exposed persons (PEPs). Use for supplier, customer and payment screening. (cost: 3 credits)

uk_sanctions_check

Search the UK Sanctions List (FCDO, enforced by OFSI) for a person, company or ship, with the UK regime, measures (asset freeze, travel ban) and designation date. For UK firms meeting their UK sanctions obligations. (cost: 3 credits)

un_sanctions_check

Search the UN Security Council consolidated sanctions list (ISIL/Al-Qaida, Taliban, DPRK, Iran-related and other regimes) for a person or entity. (cost: 3 credits)

ofac

ofac_check

Search the US Treasury OFAC sanctions lists (SDN and Consolidated non-SDN) for a person, company or ship. For US-dollar payments, US counterparties and any OFAC compliance check. (cost: 3 credits)

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/sanctions-screening	streamable-http	answering	85 ms	8 min ago

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UK Data: Sanctions screening — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can UK Data: Sanctions screening do?

It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: eu_sanctions_check, ofac_check, sanctions_check_company, sanctions_check_person, sanctions_check_ship, sanctions_screen and 2 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is UK Data: Sanctions screening working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 75 of 75 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 183 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect UK Data: Sanctions screening?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does UK Data: Sanctions screening need an API key?

No. UK Data: Sanctions screening completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is UK Data: Sanctions screening?

It answers our handshake in 183 ms on average, which is faster than 76% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.