Can I screen an international tenant against multiple country watchlists?

Yes. Every Certaby sanctions check runs against four official lists at once: the UK Sanctions List, the UN Security Council Consolidated List, the EU Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions and the US OFAC lists. Those four cover the designations most international tenants could appear on, and the certificate names each list and the date it was screened, so the audit trail shows exactly what was checked.

Add the tenant's date of birth and nationality when you have them: each possible match then says whether its listed date of birth and nationality agree, and namesakes whose details differ are ranked lower. Names written in other scripts (Arabic, Cyrillic and others) are matched against their Latin spellings too.

Why this matters for letting agents: an HMRC inspection can ask about the screen depth on a specific high-risk let. Naming the lists on the certificate pre-empts the question. SmartSearch and Veriphy screen against enterprise sanctions feeds; Certaby screens the four official lists directly, 99p a person, with PEP and adverse media as a 40p add-on.

Last updated 9 May 2026.