Global actions in the first half of 2025 have resulted in unprecedented change and upheaval in the global trade landscape. Organizations already contending with a complex regulatory environment now must also move quickly to navigate a fluid tariff environment and respond with confident business decisions.
Sayari has introduced several new capabilities across our products to respond to this dynamic landscape and help organizations ensure uninterrupted operations. Read on for details on our first-half 2025 new features and data additions.
Get ahead of changing export controls with the BIS50 Solution
Experts anticipate a significant shift in U.S. export controls. The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is proposing to apply a “Majority Ownership” rule to the BIS Entity List and Military End User (MEU) List, mirroring OFAC’s existing 50 Percent Rule.
To prepare for this key change, Sayari has released a BIS50 Signal Screening Solution to identify thousands of entities that are majority-owned by companies on the BIS Entity List and MEU List. Flagged entities will also be visible in both Sayari Graph and Sayari Map.
Currently, the BIS Entity List considers subsidiaries legally distinct from listed entities. Traditional screening lists do not capture these subsidiaries, creating potential compliance vulnerabilities should the anticipated rule change go into effect. To uncover these subsidiaries without manual due diligence, the new module leverages Sayari’s extensive global corporate database and proven majority ownership methodology.
Our BIS50 Signal Screening Solution redefines how organizations approach screening by instantly identifying thousands of majority-owned entities that could trigger compliance violations if this rule is implemented and enabling organizations to prevent risks before they impact business operations.
Take quick action to minimize tariff exposure
We’ve long included advanced search functionality in Sayari Graph to help our customers identify alternate suppliers for supply chain optimization.
Now, as organizations look to stay ahead of rapid changes to the tariff landscape, our new Tariff Feature pinpoints affected suppliers in Sayari Map. Customers get a clear, data-driven view of vendor exposure without tedious manual assessments and without sharing confidential information. In one view, customers can see suppliers exposed to tariffs based on country and product type in order to develop effective mitigation strategies and proactively explore alternative sourcing options.
Learn more about tactics and tools for tariff scenario planning and alternative sourcing in our webinar.
Go beyond sanctions lists to identify cartel presence
As Mexican cartels receive Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designations and regulatory pressure to avert these risks intensifies, compliance teams need comprehensive screening capabilities beyond standard sanctions lists. Sayari’s Cartel Affiliates Module, our first-to-market cartel screening capability, identifies hidden network connections to the six designated Mexican cartels and other OFAC-sanctioned entities linked to transnational organized crime in Mexico. These include those designated under key sanctions programs such as Foreign Narcotics Kingpin, Global Illicit Drug Trade, and Transnational Criminal Organizations, helping organizations meet heightened due diligence requirements and ensuring they do not do business with parties connected to these entities.
By leveraging hard-to-access Mexican corporate registries (state and federal) and continuously updating the data, the module identifies business associates, corporate officers, beneficial owners, and family members of cartel leaders through multiple data points (including addresses, identifiers, and dates of birth) for better detection. The module provides comprehensive coverage of over 5,000 entities, including 1,000 seed risk entities (cartels and OFAC designations) and 4,000 connected entities through corporate relationships.
With Sayari Signal, users can integrate cartel risk data directly into existing screening systems. Users of Sayari Graph and Sayari Map can visually explore cartel connections and investigate identified networks within those platforms.
Uncover environmental and social risk exposure
To help companies comply with global regulations such as the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), Sayari is now including SESAMm ESG insights data in our solutions in the same way that we document adverse media events.
Entities included in the data span industries and encompass both private and public companies. We are initially rolling out ESG Controversy Exposure Scores for 19,000 global entities with plans to expand coverage to over 300,000 entities in subsequent releases. The ESG Controversy Exposure Score ranges from 1 (least risk) to 100 (highest risk) and is designed to inform an entity’s exposure to ESG controversies. These scores can be used as relative indicators to compare companies, and a customer’s risk thresholds may be adjusted to fit their specific context and risk appetite. Additional detail is provided to report on specific ESG Controversy Events, including the type of risk (Environmental, Governance, or Social) and a score to help customers understand risk severity.
Leverage ongoing data enhancements to more effectively mitigate risk
In addition to releasing new features, we continue to enhance our data library. Our May data release was the second-largest in Sayari’s history. We added 176M+ new trade data records from 70+ countries, including approximately 130M trade shipment records from 2019, covering China, the European Union, and their respective global trading partners.
Other significant data enrichments of note include:
- S&P Financial Attributes for Global Public Companies: The financial health of counterparties is extremely important to organizations that evaluate their suppliers, customers, and vendors for financial stability and business disruption risk. Our partnership with S&P Global brings the ability to track risk across corporate ownership, trade, and finance together in one place. We’ve added 24 new financial fields to our ontology, significantly expanding our coverage from the S&P Global Market Intelligence Financials Database. The S&P public company financial data includes revenue, net income, assets, liabilities, stockholder’s equity, debt, inventory, operating profit, and currency. We continue to refine our parsing process and field labeling to ensure the most accurate representation of company financial data.
- Maritime Data Vessel Coverage: We’ve more than doubled our global vessel coverage from approximately 60,000 to about 140,000 vessels, helping customers better track supply chain movements and identify potential sanctions violations or forced labor risks. This capability is particularly critical given that maritime transport is commonly used for evasion tactics. In addition to broadening coverage, we’ve enriched existing vessel records with enhanced relationship data, including details such as owners, managers, and International Safety Management (ISM) managers. Combining maritime data with ownership or control information can help organizations unlock key insights into an entity’s structure and operators and reveal potentially suspicious indicators and associations.
- Belgium and France Official UBO Data: We have introduced ultimate beneficial ownership data for organizations in Belgium and France. This new data includes shareholder and basic company and person information, including officers, directors, and beneficial owners. Data from the Belgium Techsalerator Beneficial Ownership Dataset and all French companies registered with the French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) agency are included.
The Sayari team is committed to providing capabilities that empower companies to plan ahead of regulatory changes. Your feedback and partnership have been key to our efforts to deliver proactive solutions that redefine global risk management.
We look forward to continuing this mission and helping you tackle challenges throughout the second half of 2025. To learn more about our new features, contact our team.
