Sanctions Screening & Export Controls Compliance Solution
40+ sanctions lists. Under 4 hours
to every update.
Zero gaps.
Sanctions lists grew 96% since 2015. Most screening tools update once a day — or once a week. Sayari monitors 40+ global lists continuously and resolves entities against them, not just names.
Every major list. Every major jurisdiction. Continuously.
Sayari monitors the full spectrum of sanctions regimes — financial sanctions, export controls, sectoral restrictions, and secondary sanctions programs — updated within 4 hours of every official publication.
OFAC SDN, SSI, CAPTA, NS-MBS, and Non-SDN programs
Full OFAC program coverage including Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Myanmar, and sector-specific restrictions.
BIS Entity List, Denied Persons, Unverified List, ITAR debarred
Commerce and State Department lists for dual-use export screening — critical for technology companies and manufacturers.
EU Consolidated List, HMT UK Financial Sanctions
Post-Brexit divergence tracked — EU and UK sanctions programs now differ significantly and must be screened separately.
UN Security Council, FATF, World Bank debarred
International institution lists including procurement debarment, UN targeted sanctions, and FATF jurisdiction risk ratings.
AUSTRAC/DFAT, Japan METI, Singapore MAS, Canada OSFI
Rapidly expanding sanctions programs across APAC — especially relevant for trade finance and correspondent banking.
1.4M+ PEPs, Interpol, national law enforcement databases
Politically Exposed Persons tracking across 250+ jurisdictions, updated continuously as government appointments change.
BIS 50% Rule: Critical Next Steps
Name matching fails the 50% rule by design.
OFAC’s 50% rule requires treating any entity owned 50% or more by a designated person as itself sanctioned — even if not explicitly listed. This means your screening must traverse ownership structures, not just match names against the SDN list.
Sayari’s automated beneficial ownership traversal applies the 50% rule across multi-hop structures — surfacing exposure that a flat list comparison will always miss.
entries since 2015
continuously monitored
publication to Sayari update
Test it against your screening list.
Request a demo. We’ll run your counterparties through Sayari’s sanctions engine live — full 50% rule traversal, all 40+ lists, under 4 hours current.
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Common questions about sanctions screening
Standard sanctions screening matches names against watchlists. Ownership-chain resolution goes further — tracing through corporate hierarchies, beneficial ownership structures, and nominee arrangements to identify entities that are indirectly controlled by sanctioned parties. This catches the 50% Rule exposures and indirect sanctions risk that name-matching misses entirely.
Without continuous monitoring, newly designated entities in your vendor portfolio go undetected until the next periodic review — which could be months or years later. Sayari’s continuous monitoring detects designation changes, ownership transfers, and new enforcement actions as they occur, alerting your team before exposure becomes a compliance event.
The OFAC 50% Rule requires organizations to treat any entity owned 50% or more by a sanctioned party as sanctioned itself — even if the entity isn’t on any list. Sayari traces ownership chains through multiple layers of corporate structure to calculate aggregate ownership percentages, surfacing 50% Rule exposure that manual analysis and list-based screening cannot detect.
Every sanctions flag in Sayari traces back to its original source — corporate registry filings, trade records, government gazettes, and ownership documents. This creates an audit-ready evidence chain that demonstrates reasonable due diligence to regulators, showing not just the conclusion but the reasoning path and source documentation behind it.
Sayari monitors your entire counterparty portfolio against sanctions lists, ownership changes, adverse media, and enforcement actions simultaneously. When a material change occurs — a new designation, an ownership transfer, or an enforcement action — the system generates a prioritized alert with the evidence chain, so your analysts focus on genuine risk rather than clearing false positives.