Scador Check by Scador

Coverage

Three official lists and one ownership graph. Everything this service knows is below; everything it does not know is below that, in the same detail.

Lists held by this instance

Content as of is when we FIRST SAW the published file change — we fetch nightly and compare a hash, so this is the night the change reached us, not necessarily the day the authority published it. A list that has not moved in a fortnight is normal. Last checked is when we last looked, changed or not; if that date is not close to today, the refresh is broken and this instance is stale. Both dates are UTC days. The same figures as JSON.

Ownership

Ownership comes from GLEIF (CC0, public domain): the direct parent, the ultimate parent and the direct children of a company, as its own LEI record declares them. GLEIF relationships are reported at more than 50% ownership or accounting consolidation — that threshold is GLEIF's, not ours, and it is the single biggest limit on what this tool can see.

What is not covered

People
Individuals and politically exposed persons (PEPs) are not screened at all. This tool is about companies.
Ownership below 50%, and informal control
A 49% stake, a shareholder agreement, a nominee, a director in common, a trust — GLEIF does not publish any of it, so nothing here can detect it.
National lists beyond OFAC, the EU and the UK
No Swiss SECO, no Canadian, Australian or Japanese lists, no UN consolidated list as such, no local registers.
Identifier matching outside OFAC
Only the OFAC list publishes an LEI on its entries, so an identifier match — which cannot be a coincidence — is possible only against OFAC. A company listed only by the EU or the UK is reached by name resemblance alone, which means a spelling this tool does not recognise is a listing it does not find.
OpenSanctions data
It is licensed CC-BY-NC and this service is not non-commercial, so none of it is ingested. A result page links to their search so you can cross-check by hand — a link, and nothing more.
Companies without an LEI
If GLEIF does not know the name, there is no ownership to walk and only the name itself is compared against the lists. That verdict is labelled no-lei, and it is the weakest answer here.
Names much longer than the listed alias
Matching is on names, so “Aeroflot Russian Airlines” scores poorly against an entry filed as “PJSC Aeroflot”. Use the official short name from the register.
Single words without a country
“Bank” or “Continental” fits hundreds of companies; without a country such a query usually comes back unresolved, which is the honest answer rather than a guess.
Vessels, aircraft, crypto addresses and securities identifiers
Carried by some of these lists, but only company-like entries and their names are indexed here.

How current is an answer

Lists are refreshed nightly and a check is screened against whatever this instance held at that moment — the answer carries sourcesAsOf so you can see which, as UTC timestamps. A permalink is frozen: it shows the check as it ran, not a new one.

Screening aid, not a compliance determination. Decisions of record — your own data, your own cases, an audit trail, four-eyes approval — are not what this tool does, and it should not be used as though they were.

What we log

A check, for as long as its permalink exists. The query you typed, the answer it produced and a salted hash of your network address are stored indefinitely and are never pruned — a link somebody shared has to keep answering, which is the whole point of having one.

A visit, for 180 days. The page you opened, the host of the site that linked you here (the host alone — never the address, so a search term cannot reach us), a coarse browser family (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge or Other) and the same salted hash of your network address, which is what the daily limit is counted on. After 180 days the nightly sweep deletes it.

A small first-party script tells us when you move between pages here; it sends the page name and nothing else. No cookies, no third-party scripts, no fingerprinting — and the raw address is stored nowhere. Details: scador.com/privacy.