Hi, all!

As you know, I’ve had struggles processing OFSI and SECO updates to existing sanctions designations because of the differences between PDF and Markdown (MD) formats and capabilities. I did realize two things recently, however. Firstly, if I really wanted to reproduce the formatting, I actually could – Claude can also produce HTML as well as Markdown. Secondly, I needed Claude to recognize the formatting and act on its meaning (e.g. added text, deleted text).

Long story short – while it took a while, posts for OFSI and SECO updates now largely mirror how OFAC updates are displayed – one line per field, with changed records pointing out what was deleted and what was added. Easier for you (and me) to understand, and easier to read, to be frank.

I am still retaining the tables from the OFSI emails with the links to the FCDO designation pages, the link to the FINMA Notice, and the links to the various files supplied by SECO.

Actually, I just realized that I didn’t retain the link to the OFSI sanctions notices… I’ll get that working by the time the next update hits.

Hope this makes the site more useful to you.

Mr. Sanctions

P.S. yes, my next great project is figuring out a decent way to track EU changes – EUR-LEX is not particularly user-friendly.