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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.

THE REGULATORY REALITY
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.

01

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.

02

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.

03

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

Trace any designated or suspected entity across its full corporate network — subsidiaries, affiliates, co-registrants, and trade partners — across 250+ jurisdictions.

Beneficial Owner Identification

Traverse nominee structures, trust arrangements, and corporate service provider relationships to identify the natural persons controlling a threat network.

Financial Infrastructure Analysis

Map the corporate entities used to access financial rails — correspondent banks, payment processors, and shell companies — and their relationships to designated principals.

Network Prioritization

Identify the highest-leverage nodes in a threat network — the entities whose removal would most disrupt the network’s ability to move value or access controlled goods.

threat_finance_map.log
> Threat Finance Network
target: “Crescent Horizon Ltd (UAE)”
✓ Resolved to canonical entity record
✓ 9 shell company hops traversed
⚠ 3 jurisdictions: known evasion activity
> Sanctions Evasion Pattern
network: UAE → Türkiye → Russia (14 entities)
✗ Ultimate beneficiary: OFAC SDN (IRGC)
✗ Illicit finance typology: confirmed
intel.package(target=”CRH-0441″, severity=”HIGH”) → OFAC referral
Sayari Graph — threat finance & illicit network mapping
HOW IT WORKS

From data to decision

01
IDENTIFY

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.

02
EXPAND

Corporate network traversal

Sayari maps all corporate relationships — ownership chains, co-directors, co-shareholders, and trade partners — across 250+ jurisdictions.

03
TARGET

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.

Sayari Research · 2025
WHY SAYARI

Legacy tools vs Sayari

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
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
CLIENT RESULTS

Measured outcomes from production deployments

COVERAGE
250+
Jurisdictions with corporate registry integration for threat network tracing
SCALE
500M+
Corporate entities in Sayari’s world model
DEPTH
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.
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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 traces corporate ownership, directorship, and trade relationships between designated entities and their commercial infrastructure — including front companies, shell corporations, and procurement networks used to acquire dual-use goods, move funds, or conceal illicit financial flows. The platform traverses multi-layer corporate structures across 250+ jurisdictions in a single query.
Sayari supports proliferation financing network analysis, sanctions evasion through corporate layering, illicit procurement network mapping, terrorist financing corporate structure analysis, and kleptocracy-related asset tracing. The platform combines corporate, trade, and financial exposure data into a unified analytical environment.
Sayari enables analysts to move from a single designated entity to a full network map — identifying related entities, beneficial owners, front companies, and commercial relationships that represent additional targeting opportunities or evidentiary leads — typically within minutes rather than days of manual research.
Yes. Sayari offers on-premise, air-gapped, and private cloud deployment options for agencies with classification requirements. The platform is FedRAMP-Ready and has completed assessments for deployment in sensitive government environments.
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