UK to Change Sanctions List Format Effective February 2022
The United Kingdom is making changes to the structure and format of the U.K. Sanctions List, with the alterations set to take effect in February 2022, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation said. OFSI issued a guidance to users of…
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the list to anticipate the changes. The amendments include data standardization to drop duplications, unnecessary punctuation and improve consistency; and new fields designed to increase the detail and structure of the data. Some of these new fields include "name type" that shows whether a name is a primary name, primary name variation or alias; "passport additional information"; and "National Identifier additional information," which will describe the source of a number that is listed in a national identity card, for instance. The format changes also include alterations to some field names to make their purpose clearer. An example of this change includes changing the "Individual, Entity, Ship - Vessel" field to "Ship" to align with the terminology in the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018.