OFAC Sanctions Screening for Fintech AI Agents

Why Fintech agents need sanctions screening

Regulated financial institutions deploying AI agents must screen every counterparty against OFAC sanctions lists before funds move. agentmail gives fintech agents a single API call that checks names, crypto wallets, and countries against the full OFAC Specially Designated Nationals list in real time.

For fintechs the cost of a miss is severe — civil penalties can reach $300,000 or twice the transaction value per violation. Automating payments without screening transfers that liability straight onto your institution. agentmail closes the gap between autonomous execution and regulatory obligation, leaving a defensible audit trail.

Integrate sanctions checks into your loan-approval, onboarding, and payment-routing agents via MCP, HTTP, or CLI. The free tier covers 50 checks per day with no signup, so you can validate the workflow before scaling to a paid plan.

Example: screen a wallet before paying

curl "https://sanctionsai.dev/sanctions?wallet=0x098B716B8Aaf21512996dC57EB0615e2383E2f96"

Real OFAC data. Free tier: 50 checks/day, no API key.