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Your TPRM vendors are screened.
Their owners aren’t.

Most TPRM programs screen vendors at onboarding and refresh annually. Sayari’s continuous world model monitors your entire third-party portfolio for ownership changes, sanctions exposure, and adverse indicators — between refresh cycles.

THE REGULATORY REALITY
73%
of third-party risk incidents in 2024 involved vendors that passed initial onboarding screening. The exposure emerged between reviews — from ownership changes, new sanctions designations, and adverse media that point-in-time programs miss.
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THE PROBLEM

Why TPRM programs miss between-cycle exposure

The structural gaps that point solutions can’t close.

01

Ownership changes go unmonitored

Third parties are routinely acquired, merged, or restructured between annual reviews. A vendor may now be majority-owned by a sanctioned entity — and your program won’t know until the next scheduled refresh.

02

Point-in-time screening misses dynamic risk

A counterparty clean at onboarding may receive a new sanctions designation six months later. Batch screening workflows are structurally unable to catch this exposure in time to prevent liability.

03

No beneficial owner depth

Most TPRM tools screen the legal entity, not the ownership chain. A vendor controlled through three holding companies by a designated foreign national will pass standard screening every time.

THE SAYARI APPROACH

Continuous ownership intelligence for your third-party portfolio.

Sayari Guide continuously monitors your entire vendor portfolio against Sayari’s unified world model — alerting on sanctions changes, new ownership relationships, and adverse indicators as they occur, not at your next annual review.

Continuous Portfolio Monitoring

Sayari Guide monitors every entity in your third-party portfolio against the full Sayari world model — alerting only when meaningful new risk indicators emerge.

Beneficial Owner Depth Screening

Every vendor is screened not just as a legal entity, but across its full ownership chain — surfacing sanctions exposure through parent companies, subsidiaries, and controlling shareholders.

Ownership Change Detection

Sayari detects corporate restructuring, ownership transfers, and new control relationships in real time — triggering review when your vendor’s beneficial owner changes.

Risk-Tiered Alerting

Alerts are prioritized by risk tier — critical sanctions exposure, high-risk ownership changes, and low-priority adverse media — so your team focuses on what matters.

vendor_monitor.log
> Vendor Portfolio Screen
entity: “Nexum Global Services Ltd”
✓ Resolved to canonical entity record
✓ 5-hop ownership chain traversed
✓ UBO: Rothstein Capital Partners (Cayman)
⚠ Beneficial owner: OFAC SDN designation
> Continuous Monitoring Alert
event: ownership_change · 2024-11-03
⚠ New majority owner: sanctioned entity
✗ Risk tier: CRITICAL · requires review
guide.alert(vendor_id=”NEX-0081″, severity=”critical”) → escalated
Sayari Guide — continuous portfolio monitoring
HOW IT WORKS

From data to decision

01
ONBOARD

Screen vendors at intake with full ownership depth

Sayari screens every new vendor across its complete ownership chain — not just the legal entity — at onboarding.

02
MONITOR

Continuous portfolio surveillance

Sayari Guide monitors your full vendor portfolio 24/7 — alerting on sanctions changes, ownership shifts, and adverse indicators.

03
ACT

Risk-tiered alert with full evidence chain

Every alert includes the specific ownership path, the sanctions list or adverse indicator, and source documentation — ready for your review workflow.

6B+

Records monitored in Sayari’s world model

Sayari Guide monitors your third-party portfolio against a world model of 10.6B+ integrated records — including corporate registry filings, sanctions lists, trade data, and adverse media — giving you real-time visibility into emerging exposure that point-in-time programs can’t provide.

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WHY SAYARI

Legacy tools vs Sayari

LEGACY TOOLS
Annual or quarterly refresh — misses ownership changes and new designations between cycles
Legal-entity screening only — doesn’t trace beneficial ownership chain
High false-positive rates from name-matching without entity resolution
Manual re-screening required for ownership change events
SAYARI
Continuous monitoring — Sayari Guide alerts when exposure emerges, not at the next refresh
Beneficial owner depth — every vendor screened across its full ownership chain to 10+ degrees
Entity resolution reduces false positives — matched to a single resolved entity record, not raw name hits
Automated change detection — ownership restructuring triggers automatic re-screening
CLIENT RESULTS

Measured outcomes from production deployments

COVERAGE
100%
Of your vendor portfolio monitored continuously, not just at refresh
DEPTH
10+
Degrees of beneficial ownership traversed for every screened entity
EFFICIENCY
70%↓
Reduction in false-positive alert volume after deploying entity resolution
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 Guide
Continuous monitoring that alerts on meaningful changes — not every record update.
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Sayari API
Programmatic access to the full Sayari world model for integration into your workflows.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Common questions about this use case

Questionnaires capture what vendors choose to disclose — not what exists in the public record. Ownership changes, sanctions designations, adverse litigation, and government connections often go unreported. Evidence-based third-party risk assessment uses primary-source data to independently verify vendor claims, filling the gap between what vendors say and what corporate records show.

In most organizations, the same vendor is screened 3–5 times by separate teams using separate tools — and none of them share findings. Sayari resolves each vendor to a single entity profile enriched with ownership, sanctions, trade, and adverse media data, providing every team with the same verified intelligence. This eliminates conflicting assessments and reduces total screening effort.

Instead of risk scores without explanation, every finding in Sayari traces to a primary source — a corporate registry filing, a trade record, a government gazette, or a court document. Analysts see the evidence chain behind each flag, enabling them to make defensible decisions and build audit-ready documentation that regulators and internal stakeholders trust.

Sayari’s batch screening resolves and enriches large vendor portfolios automatically — matching your vendor list against the commercial world model, resolving entities using hard identifiers, and returning risk-prioritized results with evidence. Onboarding a portfolio of 10,000+ vendors does not require 10,000 manual lookups; the system handles resolution, enrichment, and risk flagging at scale.

Yes. Sayari’s API and pre-built integrations deliver risk intelligence where transactions execute — inside your ERP, CLM, GRC, and procurement systems. This means risk checks happen at the point of decision rather than in a separate compliance workflow, reducing cycle time and ensuring no vendor is approved, paid, or onboarded without verified risk assessment.

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