SAYARI

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.

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THE REGULATORY REALITY

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

Sayari normalizes OFAC, BIS, State, EU, UN, and 35+ national lists to a single entity resolution layer – eliminating duplicate alerts and cross-list reconciliation.

Beneficial Owner Depth

Every counterparty is screened not just as a legal entity but across its full ownership chain – surfacing indirect sanctions exposure that direct-entity screening misses.

Re-Export Detection

Sayari Map links trade manifest data to corporate ownership – flagging counterparties with trade relationships to known re-export hubs or controlled-destination entities.

Continuous Compliance Monitoring

Sayari Signal monitors your full counterparty portfolio for new sanctions designations, ownership changes, and adverse trade patterns – between annual review cycles.

denied_party_screen.log
> Denied Party Screening
  party: “Intertech Systems LLC (Singapore)”
✓ Resolved to canonical entity record
✓ OFAC SDN: no direct match
⚠ Ownership traversal: parent flagged
> BIS Entity List Analysis
  parent: “Hua Wei Semiconductor Ltd (CN)”
✗ BIS entity list match – Tier 1 restriction
✗ ECCN 3A001 – export license required
export.hold(shipment=”SHP-2024-4491″, reason=”BIS match”) → alert

Sayari Graph – denied party & BIS entity list screening

HOW IT WORKS

From data to decision

SCREEN

Submit counterparty for multi-list resolution

Sayari accepts company names, identifiers, or addresses. All 40+ lists are screened simultaneously against a resolved entity record.

TRACE

Ownership chain traversal

Every counterparty is resolved across its full beneficial ownership chain – flagging indirect designation exposure through parent companies and controlled shareholders.

MONITOR

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

EFFICIENCY

70%↓

Reduction in screening alert volume after entity resolution deployment

COVERAGE

40+

Sanctions and denial lists integrated in Sayari’s unified screening layer

DEPTH

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.

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Sayari Map

Trade-flow intelligence mapping shipment data to corporate ownership networks.

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Sayari Signal

Continuous monitoring that alerts on meaningful changes across your counterparty base.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Common questions about this use case

Sayari supports EAR (Export Administration Regulations), ITAR, OFAC sanctions screening, BIS Entity List compliance, and end-user verification requirements under multilateral export control regimes (Wassenaar, NSG, MTCR). The platform is used by exporters, importers, financial institutions, and government agencies for both pre-transaction screening and post-incident investigation.

Sayari traces the corporate ownership networks of buyers, freight forwarders, and intermediaries to identify connections to sanctioned parties, military end-users, and high-risk jurisdictions – even when those connections are concealed through multi-layer corporate structures or transshipment routing.

Yes. Sayari links corporate registry data with Chinese MCF research metadata, PLA unit associations, and SAMR filings to identify companies with verifiable ties to China’s military-civil fusion programs – including entities not yet formally designated on the BIS Entity List or OFAC SDN list.

Sayari goes beyond name-matching against static lists by resolving entity identity through corporate registry data and surfacing ownership connections to listed parties. A counterparty not on any watchlist may still be a subsidiary, affiliate, or closely related entity of a designated party – Sayari identifies these indirect relationships automatically.

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