Customer & Transaction Screening

Overview

Enigma's screening API endpoint enables you to programmatically screen customers and transactions against sanctions and other watchlists. Using your provided Enigma API key, you can submit requests directly to our screening endpoint. All of the functionality available through our sanctions evaluation console is available to you via the API.

Once you become a customer or integration partner, we will guide you through the steps towards integrating with any watchlists of your choosing, including custom lists, as well as any case manager that suits your preference. Our API is list- and case manager-agnostic, allowing our clients to tailor our screening service to satisfy their needs, budget and volume demands. Through our screening API, we currently process over 1 billion requests per month and counting.

Screening Advantages

Enigma offers industry leading performance in customer and transaction screening against sanctions and other watchlists, helping institutions to achieve compliance with greater confidence, speed and control, all for a fraction of the cost of leading competitors.

Reduced Operational and IT Costs

Enigma has a proven track record of reducing false positive sanctions alert volumes (estimated to be >99% false positives) by at least 80%, relative to conventional screening solutions. This means dramatically fewer manual reviews, translating to millions of dollars in savings in operational overhead alone.

Our system is a cloud-based managed service, which eliminates the need for costly infrastructure, IT and support resources on your part.

First Class Match Performance

Our screening service assures alerting on all expected matches, including complex fuzzy matching variations, according to your needs and risk appetite. The API's screening results include details on what spans of text in the request matched to which terms or values related to the sanctioned entity, assuring explainability of results.

Documentation

Resource	Description
API Reference	Complete API documentation for screening endpoints
Console Guide	How to use the screening evaluation console
MCP Tools	AI/MCP tools for screening integration

Quick Start

To make a screening API request, ensure that you include your API key in the designated request header:

curl --location 'https://api.enigma.com/evaluation/sanctions/screen' \
--header 'x-api-key: <YOUR API KEY>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Account-Name: <YOUR ACCOUNT NAME>' \
--data '{
  "tag": "example screening request",
  "query_type": "enigma_data",
  "searches": [
    {
      "type": "ENTITY",
      "entity_description": {
        "person_name": ["John Hanafin"],
        "country_of_affiliation": ["Ireland"]
      }
    }
  ]
}'

For complete request and response documentation, see the Core Screening API reference.

Learn More

For more information on our Customer and Transaction Screening endpoint, integration, and pricing, please contact our sales team.