United Kingdom

The United Kingdom is a FATF member jurisdiction whose official export credit agency is UK Export Finance, with autonomous UK sanctions lists after departure from the EU and Companies House as the core company and PSC disclosure system. This datasheet records the institutional pointers.

United Kingdom export credit agency and official support

UK Export Finance (UKEF) is the UK export credit agency and a government department, working alongside the Department for Business and Trade. Official about materials state that UKEF works with over 100 private credit insurers and lenders to help UK companies access export finance, that it exists to complement rather than compete with the private sector, and that its purpose is ensuring no viable UK export fails for lack of finance or insurance, sustainably and at no net cost to the taxpayer. UKEF is listed in the Berne Union directory for the United Kingdom. Product-level eligibility, national content and Arrangement alignment for medium and long term support read from current UKEF publications.

FATF posture for the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom is a FATF member. Membership denotes participation in AML and counter-terrorist financing standard setting; mutual evaluation and follow-up outcomes are published by FATF separately. The United Kingdom does not appear on the FATF increased monitoring or call for action lists as reproduced in HM Treasury's June 2026 Money Laundering Advisory Notice.

Sanctions posture for the United Kingdom

UK sanctions are set out on GOV.UK sanctions guidance. The UK Sanctions List names the individuals, businesses, organisations and ships that are the targets of certain UK sanctions measures such as asset freezes and transport sanctions. GOV.UK updates state that the OFSI Consolidated List of Asset Freeze Targets closed on 28 January 2026 and that the UK Sanctions List is now the only source for all UK sanctions designations. Types of UK measures described on the guidance page include financial sanctions, trade sanctions, transport sanctions, immigration sanctions and director disqualification sanctions.

For sanctions screening on UK law exposures, the UK Sanctions List is the institutional designation source described by GOV.UK; EU list reading does not replace it for UK law.

Company and beneficial ownership registers in the United Kingdom

Companies House is the UK registrar. GOV.UK's Get information about a company service states that users can obtain company details free of charge, including the registered address and date of incorporation, current and resigned officers, document images, mortgage charge data, previous company names and insolvency information.

People with significant control guidance states that companies must identify their PSCs, sometimes called beneficial owners, include their details on incorporation, and notify Companies House of changes; PSC information forms part of the public Companies House record subject to the protection applications described in the same guidance. Glossary context sits at PSC register and UBO.

Summary

The United Kingdom is an Arrangement Participant in its own right after departure from the European Union, so UKEF medium and long term support reads against UK participation in Arrangement rules rather than EU Participant implementation. The UK Sanctions List is the single UK designation source following the OFSI Consolidated List closure. Companies House filings and PSC disclosures support know-your-business identity checks; they are not a substitute for sanctions list screening or for reading UKEF product rules on a specific facility.