Your screening checks the name.
Not who’s behind it.

Traditional screening matches names against lists. Entity resolution recognizes that the same entity can appear under multiple names, languages, transliterations, and corporate structures. Sayari resolves these variations to the true underlying entity before checking against denied party lists. This catches restricted parties operating under assumed names or through shell companies that traditional name-matching would miss entirely.

Beneficial ownership screening maps who actually controls an entity. A denied party often operates through nominees, shell companies, and front organizations. The operational company may never appear on a sanctions list, but its beneficial owner is sanctioned. Sayari traces ownership chains to reveal these hidden connections, catching control relationships that list-only screening structurally cannot detect.

Yes. Sayari covers 40+ denied party and sanctions lists including OFAC SDN, BIS Entity List, BIS Denied Persons List, BIS Unverified List, and 36+ additional global sanctions designations. All lists are updated every 4 hours, meaning designations are captured immediately after publication rather than on annual review cycles.

Entity resolution and beneficial ownership mapping provide context for every match. A name match against the SDN list becomes more meaningful when you can confirm the matched entity’s beneficial ownership, corporate structure, and relationship to your counterparty. This context dramatically reduces false positives from common names and homonyms that plague traditional list matching.

Both. Sayari supports one-off screening through Graph, batch screening of counterparty lists, and continuous monitoring of active relationships through Signal. You can also integrate Sayari screening into your onboarding workflows through API, automating screening at the moment a new counterparty enters your system.