OFAC Sanctions Screening in Google Sheets & Excel

What this pulls

Screen a column of customer names against the OFAC SDN list. Returns scored matches right in the cell — Sheets or Excel.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 1 credit per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

sanctionscreening.xlsxsample data

B2fx=VERVE("sanctionscreening", A2, "field", "query")

Name

Query

Matched

Match Count

Verdict

Banco Nacional de Cuba

Banco Nacional de Cuba

TRUE

exact

click any cell to see its formula1 credit / cell

Ways to use it

Live financial model

Drop =VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "field", "query") into a cell and your model reads the latest number every refresh — no more pasting figures from a browser tab into a stale sheet.

Track a whole watchlist

Fill a column beside your list of tickers or currencies and every row updates together, so a hundred-row watchlist stays current on its own.

Dashboards that don't rot

Point a chart at the cell =VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "field", "query") feeds and the chart re-draws as the data moves — a finance dashboard that's live instead of a Monday-morning snapshot.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "field", "query")

Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "field", "query")

Optional inputs

Tune the result by adding name=value before the field argument — in any order. Leave one out and its default applies.

thresholdPremium
Minimum match score to return, between 0.5 and 1. Lower catches more names but returns more false positives
=VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "threshold", "0.85")
limitPremium
Maximum number of matches to return (1-50)
=VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "limit", "10")
typePremium
Restrict screening to one entry type
=VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "type", "individual")

Fields you can pull

Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.

Query
=VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "field", "query")
Matched
=VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "field", "matched")
Match Count
=VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "field", "matchCount")
Verdict
=VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "field", "verdict")
Top Score
=VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "field", "topScore")
Results
=VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "field", "results")
Results › Uid
=VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "field", "results.0.uid")
Results › Name
=VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "field", "results.0.name")
Results › Type
=VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "field", "results.0.type")
Results › Score
=VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "field", "results.0.score")
Results › Confidence
=VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "field", "results.0.confidence")
Results › Programs
=VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "field", "results.0.programs")

Premium marks data included on paid plans. On the Free plan a marked field is withheld and a marked input is ignored — either way the cell reads #PREMIUM(name) instead of a value, so a gated answer can never be mistaken for a real one. Everything unmarked works on every plan. Compare plans

OFAC Sanctions Screening, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull OFAC Sanctions Screening into Google Sheets?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "field", "query") into any cell. The "field" argument names the value you want back, so the cell resolves to a single number or string you can chart, sort, or feed into another formula.

What data can I pull from OFAC Sanctions Screening?

OFAC Sanctions Screening returns query, matched, matchCount, verdict and topScore, plus 7 more — name any one of them as the "field" argument and that value lands in the cell. Leave the field out and the whole record spills into a two-column table instead.

Can I narrow what OFAC Sanctions Screening returns?

Yes — OFAC Sanctions Screening takes "threshold", "limit" and "type" as optional inputs. They go in as "name", value pairs after the required ones, in any order, so =VERVE("sanctionscreening", "Banco Nacional de Cuba", "threshold", "0.85") shapes the result without changing anything else.

Can I fill a whole column of OFAC Sanctions Screening at once?

Yes. Put your name values down a column and point the formula at the range — A2:A50 instead of A2 — and one call returns a value for every row. Dragging the formula down works too, but the range form is a single billed call per column rather than one per cell.

How many credits does each OFAC Sanctions Screening cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 1 credit. A cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a sheet you aren't touching doesn't keep charging.

Does OFAC Sanctions Screening work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?

Yes — same arguments, same key, same fields. Excel namespaces custom functions, so the call is =VERVE.CALL() there and =VERVE() in Google Sheets; nothing else about it changes.

OFAC Sanctions Screening

Live financial model

Track a whole watchlist

Dashboards that don't rot

OFAC Sanctions Screening, answered

Put OFAC Sanctions Screening in your next spreadsheet. Add the extension, paste the formula, and the cell keeps itself current.

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