The full OFAC reference is now free — search, General Licenses, FAQs, and the change feed
As of this month, the reference layer of Bulwark is free for everyone. No login, no card, no trial clock:
- Search the OFAC SDN and Consolidated lists — every designation, with programs and dates.
- Every General License — status, expiry, conditions, and supersession history.
- Every sanctions program and its legal authority, the statutory exemptions, and Treasury’s own FAQs.
- A running feed of what OFAC changed, landing within minutes of Treasury publication — with a free weekly email digest.
Why give the reference away?
Because the facts were never the product. OFAC’s lists are public U.S. government data; charging for the ability to read them always felt like renting someone a copy of the law. The hard part of sanctions compliance isn’t knowing that a name is listed — it’s what happens next: screening your own payments against the list within minutes of a change, deciding whether a General License actually authorizes the transaction in front of you, and producing the records an examiner will accept.
That’s the part we charge for. The line is simple: reading public facts is free; the workflow the platform runs on your own book of business — screening, monitoring, alerts scoped to your names, case management, regulatory filings — is paid.
The honest caveats
The free reference is informational only — it is not a compliance determination, and it doesn’t replace screening. Coverage is OFAC-first in depth; the EU (CFSP), UK (OFSI), and UN consolidated lists are live in the free search and the research agent, and available per tenant in screening. If you need the data programmatically, the supported path is the Reference Data API — the site is for people, the API is for machines.
Start anywhere: run a free search, browse the reference, or see what the paid tiers do.