Your counterparties are screened. Their networks aren’t.
Regulators now hold exporters liable for sanctions exposure through ownership chains, not just direct counterparty lists. Sayari resolves your full counterparty network – surfacing indirect exposure before shipment.
417%
increase in OFAC and BIS combined enforcement penalties in 2024 vs 2022. The majority involved indirect exposure through beneficial ownership chains that direct-counterparty screening programs didn’t reach.
OFAC/BIS Enforcement Data · Sayari Research · 2024
THE PROBLEM
Why standard export compliance misses indirect exposure
The structural gaps that point solutions can’t close.
Beneficial ownership beyond the counterparty
OFAC and BIS both assert jurisdiction over transactions where a sanctioned entity has beneficial ownership, even if the direct counterparty is not listed. Standard screening stops at the legal entity.
Denied party list proliferation
OFAC, BIS, State, EU, UN, and national lists each use different entity identifiers, transliterations, and designation types. Manual multi-list screening produces both false positives and missed matches.
Re-export and third-party routing
Customers route controlled items through third countries to circumvent export controls. Without shipment-level trade data linked to corporate ownership, these routing patterns are invisible at onboarding.
THE SAYARI APPROACH
Full network screening for export compliance.
Sayari resolves every counterparty across its full ownership chain, screening against 40+ sanctions and denial lists – and linking corporate ownership to trade flow data for re-export pattern detection.
40+ List Integration
Beneficial Owner Depth
Re-Export Detection
Continuous Compliance Monitoring
denied_party_screen.log
> Denied Party Screening
✓ OFAC SDN: no direct match
⚠ Ownership traversal: parent flagged
> BIS Entity List Analysis
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HOW IT WORKS
From data to decision
Submit counterparty for multi-list resolution
Sayari accepts company names, identifiers, or addresses. All 40+ lists are screened simultaneously against a resolved entity record.
Ownership chain traversal
Every counterparty is resolved across its full beneficial ownership chain – flagging indirect designation exposure through parent companies and controlled shareholders.
Continuous portfolio surveillance
Sayari Signal monitors your approved counterparty list for new sanctions designations, ownership changes, and re-export risk indicators.
40+
Sanctions and denial lists integrated in Sayari
Sayari normalizes OFAC, BIS, State, EU, UN, and 35+ national-level sanctions and denial lists to a single entity resolution layer – giving compliance teams a unified screening surface that eliminates cross-list duplication while improving coverage.
Sayari Research · 2025
WHY SAYARI
Legacy tools vs Sayari
LEGACY TOOLS
- Direct-entity list matching – misses indirect exposure through beneficial ownership chains
- Multi-list fragmentation – separate screening workflows for each jurisdiction’s list
- No trade flow integration – can’t detect re-export routing through third countries
- Point-in-time screening – misses new designations between review cycles
SAYARI
- Full beneficial owner depth – ownership traversal to 10+ degrees for every counterparty
- 40+ list integration – single entity resolution layer across all major sanctions and denial lists
- Re-export detection – Sayari Map trade data linked to corporate ownership networks
- Continuous monitoring – Sayari Signal alerts on new exposure in your approved counterparty base
CLIENT RESULTS
Measured outcomes from production deployments
70%↓
Reduction in screening alert volume after entity resolution deployment
40+
Sanctions and denial lists integrated in Sayari’s unified screening layer
10+
Degrees of beneficial ownership traversed for every screened counterparty
PRODUCTS FOR THIS USE CASE
Sayari products that power this workflow
Sayari Graph
Entity resolution and ownership graph for 500M+ companies across 250+ jurisdictions.
Sayari MAP
Trade-flow intelligence mapping shipment data to corporate ownership networks.
Sayari Signal
Continuous monitoring that alerts on meaningful changes across your counterparty base.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Common questions about this use case
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