"The Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") of the US Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries and regimes, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and other threats to the national security, foreign policy or economy of the United States. OFAC acts under Presidential national emergency powers, as well as authority granted by specific legislation, to impose controls on transactions and freeze assets under US jurisdiction."

Who We Are
Brown & Company, Inc. is an Information Technology services provider, specializing in the financial services industry. You can learn more about us at www.brownandcompany.net. We are not affiliated with the United States Treasury Department or Office of Foreign Assets Control in any way. We do take the publically available data from the OFAC website and redistribute it in an easy to use searchable format.

Why did you create this website?
We created the OFAC Search Engine for a banking client of ours in early 2001. At that time the website was for internal use only. After September 11, 2001, we decided to publish the search engine on the Internet where anyone could use it, free of charge. The advertisements displayed on the pages help defray the costs of maintaining the search engine.

Where does the data for the website come from?
The data comes directly from the OFAC SDN list on the OFAC website. OFAC provides the raw data and we import that data into a database that can be easily searched using a web browser.

How often is the data updated?
OFAC doesn't release data on any regular schedule, but whenever OFAC releases new data we import that data into our search engine within 12 hours. When you perform a search, the "Last Updated" date should be the same as the last updated date on the OFAC website.

We provide the easiest to use OFAC search engine on the Internet. All OFAC search engines use the same data, so why pay for something when you don't have to? If you have any additional questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to contact us
via email or telephone: (915) 875-0000.