Threat actors operate through corporate networks.
State-sponsored adversaries, terrorist organizations, and proliferators use layered corporate structures to access the financial system. Sayari maps the corporate infrastructure behind the threat – connecting financial intelligence to beneficial ownership.
89%
of OFAC enforcement actions targeting state-sponsored networks in 2024 involved corporate structures with at least three layers of beneficial ownership. Financial intelligence alone cannot resolve these structures without corporate registry data.
OFAC Enforcement Data 2024 · Sayari Research
THE PROBLEM
Why financial intelligence alone misses the structure
The structural gaps that point solutions can’t close.
Corporate infrastructure opacity
Threat actors register dozens to hundreds of nominally independent companies to access financial rails, move value, and maintain operational security. Each entity appears legitimate when reviewed in isolation.
Jurisdictional arbitrage
Threat networks deliberately exploit jurisdictions with weak beneficial ownership disclosure, opaque corporate service providers, and limited law enforcement cooperation to create structures that defeat single-source analysis.
Speed-to-designation lag
By the time a network is identified and designated, its principals have already migrated to new corporate structures. Intelligence needs to be proactive and network-aware, not reactive and entity-specific.
THE SAYARI APPROACH
Map the corporate infrastructure of threat networks.
Sayari integrates corporate registry data from 250+ jurisdictions with trade flow records and financial intelligence – enabling threat finance analysts to trace ownership networks, identify node dependencies, and map the full corporate infrastructure behind a threat actor.
Threat Network Mapping
Beneficial Owner Identification
Financial Infrastructure Analysis
Network Prioritization
threat_finance_map.log
> Threat Finance Network
✓ 9 shell company hops traversed
⚠ 3 jurisdictions: known evasion activity
> Sanctions Evasion Pattern
✗ Illicit finance typology: confirmed
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HOW IT WORKS
From data to decision
Start from any known actor or indicator
Begin with a designated entity, a financial alert, or a trade anomaly flagged by FinCEN, OFAC, or partner agencies.
Corporate network traversal
Sayari maps all corporate relationships – ownership chains, co-directors, co-shareholders, and trade partners – across 250+ jurisdictions.
Identify key nodes for designation or disruption
Prioritize entities by network centrality, financial access, and operational role for designation recommendations or interdiction planning.
6B+
Records integrated in Sayari’s world model
Sayari’s world model integrates corporate registry filings, trade flow records, beneficial ownership data, and enforcement intelligence into a single persistent entity graph – giving threat finance analysts the cross-domain view that adversary networks are specifically designed to prevent.
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WHY SAYARI
Sayari vs Legacy tools
SAYARI
- Corporate + financial + trade integration – full infrastructure picture in one world model
- Network-first analysis – map the full corporate network from a single starting entity
- 250+ jurisdiction integration – no jurisdictional blind spots in the ownership traversal
- Proactive intelligence – identify new corporate infrastructure before it’s designated
LEGACY TOOLS
- Financial data only – can’t see the corporate infrastructure that threat actors use to access financial rails
- Entity-by-entity analysis – misses the network-level structure that defines operational security
- Jurisdiction-specific – can’t integrate corporate data across the multiple registries threat actors exploit
- Reactive designation workflow – identifies actors after they’ve already operated for months or years
CLIENT RESULTS
Measured outcomes from production deployments
250+
Jurisdictions with corporate registry integration for threat network tracing
500M+
Corporate entities in Sayari’s world model
10+
Degrees of ownership separation traversable in a single network query
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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