Everything You Need to Know About List Screening
List screening is the process of vetting entities against various watchlists to identify and prevent financial crimes such as money [...]
Sanctions
Sayari Announces Major Expansion of Global Supply Chain Data
Sayari, the leading commercial risk intelligence provider, today announced a major upgrade of its global supply chain and trade transaction [...]
Layering Public Records and Blockchain Analytics to Enhance Cryptocurrency Investigations
From sanctions evasion and large-scale fraud to drug trafficking and terrorist financing, illicit actors are increasingly turning to cryptocurrencies to [...]
Distinguishing Targets from Lookalikes: Entity Disambiguation Tactics and Examples
There are countless people and companies with identical names. As an investigator, how do you determine whether you’re looking at [...]
Strategies for Better-Informed Risk Decision Calls: HSBC on Proactive Russian Sanctions Analysis Investigations
Since Western nations condemned Russian aggression against Ukraine in March 2022, designated Russian entities have been heavily involved in evading [...]
Yacht Hunting: Unveiling the Ultimate Beneficial Ownership of Russian Vessels Using Open-Source Data
Illicit actors will go to great lengths to hide their assets. One prime example is Vagit Alekperov, a Russian oligarch [...]
Everything You Need to Know About Sanctions Compliance
Sanctions screening is an essential part of a bank or multinational’s regulatory compliance framework. It’s how businesses meet regulations that [...]
Questions to Ask when Identifying Chinese Military Companies
The U.S. government has made it clear that businesses affiliated with the Chinese military are a threat to national security, [...]
Sayari Graph Fall 2022 Release: Collaboration and Broader Investigations
Each day, investigators face new challenges while balancing an already heavy workload. That’s why for the Fall 2022 Sayari Graph [...]
What FIUs Can Learn from the Russian Sanctions Regime
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th, there has been a seemingly endless stream of sanction measures against the Russian [...]