KYC & Know Your Customer Compliance Solution
Automate KYC onboarding. Eliminate false positives at scale.
Most KYC tools match on name strings. Sayari resolves entities – connecting the same person or company across 11.7 billion+ primary-source records, 250+ jurisdictions, and 40+ sanctions lists before the decision is made.
KYC onboarding workflow · automated
Entity resolution
Name → resolved entity across 250+ jurisdictions
Beneficial ownership
3.4× deeper traversal – UBO identification
Sanctions + PEP screening
40+ lists · <4hr update lag · fuzzy matching
Risk-scored decision
72% fewer false positives – auto-clear or escalate
72%
False positive reduction
500M+
Companies resolved
40+
Sanctions lists monitored
<4hr
Max list update lag
91%
Risk data remains siloed across the enterprise
of decision-makers say risk data is siloed across teams. For KYC programs, this means ownership verification, sanctions screening, and adverse media run in separate workflows – with no unified entity view.
Source: Sayari Global Executive Survey, 2025
The KYC problem
Name-string matching is broken by design.
Most KYC tools search on name and maybe country. They can’t resolve the same entity appearing under dozens of different corporate registries around the world. They can’t trace beneficial ownership through multiple holding companies. They alert on every near-match and expect your analysts to sort it out.
The result: compliance teams spending 80% of their time clearing false positives rather than investigating real risk.
417%
Surge in enforcement penalties over last 5 years
80%
Analyst time wasted on false positive review
96%
Growth in sanctions list entries since 2015
5+
Layers of shell company obscuring most exposed UBOs
Incomplete beneficial ownership
Public registries report only one or two corporate layers. Real beneficial owners sit 5-8 hops behind holding companies you’ll never surface with a single lookup.
False positive overload
Fuzzy name matches trigger alerts on “John Smith” – every one of them. Analysts spend days clearing noise instead of investigating actual exposure.
Stale sanctions data
Most providers update watchlists weekly or daily. Enforcement agencies update within hours. A 72-hour window is long enough for a transaction to clear unscreened.
No evidence trail
When a regulator audits your decision, “the system said clear” isn’t an answer. You need source-cited documentation for every risk determination.
How Sayari works
Entity resolution. Not keyword matching.
Sayari resolves the person or company – not the string – so every downstream decision is built on a complete picture of who you’re actually dealing with.
Resolve, don’t search
Sayari matches your input entity against 11.7B+ records across 250+ jurisdictions – consolidating aliases, transliterations, address variations, and registration numbers into a single canonical identity.
Traverse ownership automatically
Automated multi-hop traversal identifies the ultimate beneficial owner – even through 8-layer holding structures – and cross-references every node against all 40+ sanctions lists simultaneously.
Score, clear, or escalate
Risk scores built on entity resolution – not keyword hits – eliminate 72% of false positives before a human ever sees them. Real matches get escalated with full source documentation attached.
500M+
Entities in the world model
3.4×
Deeper than public registry lookups
72%
Reduction in false positives
Use cases
Where teams deploy Sayari KYC
Customer onboarding at scale
Run automated KYC checks at onboarding velocity – millions of customers screened with full beneficial ownership traversal, not just name matching.
72% faster onboarding clearance with fewer analyst escalations
Correspondent banking due diligence
Screen correspondent relationships through the entire ownership chain – not just the bank’s name. Identify indirect exposure before you establish the relationship.
Complete ownership picture in minutes, not weeks
Vendor and supplier onboarding
Stop relying on self-reported questionnaires. Independently verify vendor ownership, sanctions exposure, and beneficial control before the first PO is issued.
10× faster than manual third-party due diligence
Beneficial ownership registry compliance
FinCEN CDD Rule, AML Act 2020, EU 6AMLD – all require you to know who ultimately controls the entities you’re dealing with. Sayari makes that traceable and auditable.
Audit-ready evidence trails for every decision
Periodic re-screening programs
Run continuous monitoring across your entire book of business – get alerted when a customer’s ownership structure changes or a new sanctions designation lands.
Real-time alerts within 4 hours of sanctions list updates
M&A target due diligence
Before you close, verify the acquisition target’s full ownership structure and every subsidiary’s sanctions, PEP, and adverse media exposure – globally.
Global entity verification in days, not months
Regulatory coverage
Built for the frameworks that matter.
Sayari is used by teams operating under the world’s most demanding AML and KYC regulatory regimes.
FinCEN CDD Rule
Beneficial ownership identification and verification for covered financial institutions
AML Act 2020
U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Act beneficial ownership registry requirements
EU 6AMLD
Sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive – enhanced due diligence and beneficial ownership
OFAC / SDN
OFAC-mandated sanctions screening with ownership-based attribution under 50% rule
See it on your customer list.
Request a demo using real counterparties from your onboarding queue. We’ll show exactly where your current KYC process leaves gaps – and what Sayari closes.
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