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The Sanctions Pressure panel (internal id sanctions-pressure) turns the OFAC SDN and Consolidated sanctions lists into an actionable overview: which countries are under the most designation pressure right now, what programs are driving it, and what has changed since the last update.

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What the panel shows

The panel is a compact, analyst-oriented surface (defaultRowSpan: 2):
  • Summary bar — three cards at the top: New (new designations since the last update — highlighted when > 0), Vessels (designated vessels in the current set), Aircraft (designated aircraft).
  • Country rows — top 8 countries by sanctions designation pressure, each row showing the country label, total designation count, and the program mix.
  • Program rows — designations grouped by OFAC program (e.g. sectoral, counter-terrorism).
The panel tracks activity (trackActivity: true) so newly arrived designations get the standard new-item visual treatment. Panel id is sanctions-pressure; canonical component is src/components/SanctionsPressurePanel.ts. Displayed title: “Sanctions & Designations” (from super({...})).

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How you reach it

  • Cmd+K: type sanctions or OFAC.
  • Availability by variant: registered and enabled by default in the full/geopolitical (priority 2), finance (priority 1), and commodity (priority 1) variants. Not present in the tech or happy variants. Source: 'sanctions-pressure' entries in FULL_PANELS, FINANCE_PANELS, COMMODITY_PANELS in src/config/panels.ts.

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Data sources

SanctionsPressureResult payload from @/services/sanctions-pressure, backed by:
  • OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list
  • OFAC Consolidated List
The seeder pulls both, normalises the country attribution, counts vessels and aircraft, and diffs against the previous snapshot to compute newEntryCount.

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Refresh cadence

OFAC publishes list updates on an irregular cadence (daily-to-weekly). The panel reads the most recent snapshot; freshness is surfaced indirectly via newEntryCount.

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Tier & gating

Free. No premium flag in variant registrations. The Sanctions service RPC is public.

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API reference

  • Sanctions service — sanctions pressure + entity search RPCs.
  • Related: /api/sanctions-entity-search endpoint (documented under Proxies) for fuzzy SDN entity lookups.