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Screen counterparties, brokers and vessels for sanctions, ownership and adverse media risk. Then keep checking.
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How trading firms can tighten counterparty screening

Trading runs on counterparties, and every one of them brings risk. Deal with the wrong supplier, buyer or broker and you could end up trading with a sanctioned party, funding fraud or watching a payment freeze halfway through. The better habit is to keep checking. Look at every counterparty, and the people and vessels behind a trade, before you deal, and keep an eye on them afterwards. That’s what Beady does. We screen properly before the trade and then check the counterparties across your book every day, so a new sanction, charge or scandal reaches you when it happens, not after the deal is done. For trading houses in DMCC, JAFZA or anywhere else in the UAE, dealing with suppliers and buyers in dozens of countries, that’s not a nice-to-have.

Every counterparty checked before the trade and re-checked daily
Why manual counterparty checks can't keep up

Manual checks just can’t match the pace of trading. Deals close in hours, and a rushed look at a counterparty’s sanctions exposure, ownership and history often ends up shallow, or doesn’t happen at all. Ownership is especially hard. The real party behind a trading company is often buried under offshore layers a quick search won’t untangle. And a check before one trade only shows one moment. A counterparty that was clean last quarter can be sanctioned, charged or exposed today, and a one-off check won’t tell you. You’re then exposed on every trade that follows.

Manual counterparty checks versus Beady: days per counterparty against minutes, kept current
Why you need checks before the trade and afterwards

Before you trade, you want to know that the counterparty, and the people behind it, are who they say they are, and that nothing like a sanction, an ownership link or a scandal should stop the deal. Once you’re trading regularly, the question is what’s changed. Check only before the first trade and you’re exposed for the rest of the relationship. Check only now and then and you’re always behind. Beady does both: a proper check upfront and daily monitoring after, so your view of every counterparty stays current.

Why pre-trade screening and ongoing monitoring both matter: what changes after a counterparty is cleared
What one bad counterparty costs a trading firm

One bad counterparty rarely costs you just the one deal. Trade with a sanctioned party or vessel, or ship controlled goods to a restricted end-user, and you can break sanctions or export control rules without meaning to, with penalties that run into millions of dirhams or dollars. On top of the fines, cargo and payments can be frozen, banks can pull your trade finance lines, and a serious breach can shut you out of whole markets. The damage to your reputation sticks around too. The frustrating part is that most of it could have been avoided with proper screening. That’s what Beady is for: checking every counterparty, broker and vessel against sanctions and adverse media before you trade, and keeping watch afterwards.

What one bad counterparty costs a trading firm: frozen cargo, sanctions breach, trade finance withdrawn
How AI helps with counterparty risk

AI lets a trading firm screen counterparties at deal speed without skipping steps. Beady checks a counterparty, and the people, companies and vessels behind a trade, against sanctions, adverse media, litigation and more than 100,000 other sources in minutes, and maps ownership across more than 200M entities and officers. Up to 95% of the noise is filtered out before your team sees anything. After that, it checks daily and tells you within hours about a new sanction, charge or scandal. Every finding links to its source, so your compliance holds up when questioned.

Counterparty risk intelligence with AI across 100,000+ sources, ownership mapped across jurisdictions
01 Keeping Up With Shifting Regulations Across Jurisdictions
Trade compliance rules, and the sanctions behind them, change all the time in every market you deal with. Fall behind, even briefly, and a routine trade can turn into a breach. Beady refreshes sanctions, PEP and adverse media data daily, including the UAE Local Terrorist List, so your screening reflects the rules as they are today.
02 Applying Compliance Controls Consistently Across Teams
Trading, operations and compliance don’t always screen to the same standard, and the gaps are where risk gets through. Beady gives every team one consistent check with sources attached. A counterparty gets screened the same way whoever runs it, and no trade skips a control.
03 Maintaining Clean, Audit-Ready Documentation
When a regulator or auditor asks how you cleared a counterparty, guessing won’t do. Beady links every finding to its source and keeps a record of each screen. You can pull up clean, audit-ready documentation for any trade when asked, instead of piecing it together under pressure.
04 Avoiding Cost Blowouts From Delays, Penalties and Remediation
Compliance failures cost money in every direction: penalties for a breach, delays when a trade stalls waiting for checks, and clean-up work that can drag on for months. Beady helps avoid the breach and speeds up the check at the same time, screening counterparties in minutes. Compliance protects your margins instead of eating into them.

Why Trading Firms in the UAE Need Beady

Screening counterparties before you trade: registry, sanctions, adverse media, decision
Screen Counterparties Before You Trade
Every counterparty brings risk you can’t see on a contract. Beady checks the people and companies behind a counterparty against sanctions, PEP, criminal and adverse media sources before you deal. You catch a high-risk party before the trade, not after the cargo has sailed or the money has moved.
Screening suppliers, buyers, brokers and intermediaries along the deal
Screen Suppliers, Buyers, Brokers and Intermediaries
A trade involves more than two names. Beady screens the suppliers, buyers, brokers and intermediaries around a deal for sanctions and adverse media risk, so a problem party anywhere in the chain doesn’t land you with a breach or a loss you never saw coming.
Mapping ownership to uncover who is really behind a counterparty
Map Ownership Behind a Counterparty
Trading companies are often deliberately opaque. Beady maps ownership across more than 200M entities and officers and brings out the beneficial owners and hidden links behind a counterparty. An offshore or free zone structure can’t hide a sanctioned or high-risk party behind a trading company that looks legitimate.
Screening vessels, cargo owners and trade assets with the parties that control them
Screen Vessels, Cargo Owners and Trade Assets
In commodity and physical trading, the asset carries risk too. Beady screens vessels and the parties behind a shipment against sanctions lists and watchlists using identifiers like IMO numbers. A sanctioned vessel or cargo owner doesn’t drag your trade into a breach, whether it’s calling at Jebel Ali, Khalifa Port or Fujairah.
Catching sanctions and PEP exposure before a deal, including the 50% ownership rule
Catch Sanctions and PEP Exposure Before a Deal
Sanctions are the biggest risk in trading, and the penalties are severe. Beady screens every counterparty and party to a trade against the UAE Local Terrorist List, the UN, OFAC, the EU and the UK’s HMT, plus PEP data, all refreshed daily. A newly sanctioned party is caught before you trade, not after.
Catching fraud and integrity red flags in adverse media, litigation and financing signals
Catch Fraud and Integrity Red Flags
Trade fraud usually shows up in public before it reaches you. Beady checks counterparties and the people behind them for arrests, lawsuits, bankruptcies and bad press. An integrity problem turns up in screening, not in an unpaid contract or a fake shipment.
Monitoring counterparties continuously with new designations flagged within hours
Monitor Counterparties Continuously
A counterparty you cleared for one trade can become a risk before the next. Beady checks the counterparties across your book daily and tells you within hours about a new sanction, charge or scandal. That gives you time to pause, renegotiate or walk away.
Protecting banking and trade finance lines with evidence a bank will accept
Protect Banking, Trade-Finance Lines and Reputation
Your access to banks and trade finance depends on a clean compliance record. UAE banks look hard at trading clients, especially those dealing in high-risk goods or regions. Beady helps protect that record by screening and monitoring your counterparties, so one sanctioned or fraudulent party doesn’t cost you the banking and financing your business runs on.

A counterparty can be sanctioned in the middle of a trade

Counterparties, owners and vessels screened before the trade and watched until delivery.
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01 Counterparty Onboarding
Onboarding a new counterparty means knowing the company and the people behind it. Beady runs KYC and KYB, maps ownership and screens for sanctions, litigation and adverse media. You know exactly who you’re about to trade with before the relationship starts.
02 Pre-Trade Counterparty Screening
Before a specific trade, run a quick check on everyone involved. Beady screens the counterparty, brokers and other parties to the deal for sanctions and adverse media risk in minutes. You can confirm the trade is clear to go ahead, or stop it, before you commit.
03 Trade Finance and Documentary Checks
Trade finance carries heavy sanctions, fraud and trade-based money laundering risk. Beady screens the buyers, sellers, banks and other parties named in a trade finance deal for sanctions and adverse media, so a financed trade isn’t exposed to a sanctioned party or a front company hidden in the paperwork.
04 Vessel and Cargo Sanctions Screening
In physical and commodity trading, the vessel and the cargo matter. Beady screens vessels against sanctions lists and watchlists by identifier, along with the parties behind a shipment. A sanctioned or dark fleet vessel, or cargo routed through a transshipment hub, won’t pull your trade into a breach you’d have to answer for.
05 Ongoing Counterparty Monitoring
Counterparty risk changes after the first trade. Beady checks your counterparties daily and flags a new sanction, charge or scandal when it happens. That’s your chance to act before an approved counterparty becomes a risk to your next deal.
06 Broker, Agent and Intermediary Screening
Your risk extends to everyone between you and a trade. Beady screens brokers, agents and intermediaries, and the people behind them, for sanctions and reputational issues. A dodgy intermediary doesn’t quietly become your firm’s problem.
07 Investigations and Escalations
When a counterparty raises a red flag, you need answers fast. Beady gives your compliance team and MLRO a source-linked view of any company, person or vessel, drawn from sanctions, criminal, litigation and adverse media sources. Escalations get resolved quickly, and the decision is documented.

What Beady Checks

People

There are always people behind a counterparty, and that’s usually where the risk sits. Beady screens them: owners, directors, principals, and the brokers, agents and other people around them. Each one is checked against sanctions, PEP, criminal and most-wanted lists, plus adverse media from more than 100,000 sources, and anyone whose political exposure raises the risk is flagged. Beady doesn’t take the company on the contract at face value. It looks past it to the people really behind the trade, which is how you get to know exactly who you’re dealing with.

People Beady checks for trading firms: signatories, beneficial owners, brokers, directors, agents and PEPs
Organisations and Assets

A counterparty, and the vessel behind a shipment, carry risks a name on a deal won’t show. Beady screens trading companies, suppliers, buyers and counterparties against sanctions, litigation, adverse media and watchlists, and checks vessels and other trade assets against sanctions by identifier. It looks especially closely at shell companies and opaque offshore structures. These are common in trading and often used to hide who controls a business, to move sanctioned goods or to route them through transshipment and re-export, and they’re the front companies at the centre of most evasion schemes. You see the real organisation, and asset, behind a trade before you commit.

Organizations and assets Beady checks: counterparties, vessels, cargo owners, trade finance parties and shell entities
Ownership and Connections

In trading, ownership is often hidden on purpose, and it’s exactly what you need to see. Beady maps beneficial ownership and the connections around a counterparty using a database of more than 200 million entities and officers. It works through holding companies and intermediaries until it reaches the people who really own and control the business, and along the way picks up related parties, conflicts of interest and links to sanctioned or high-risk companies. You understand not just the company on the other side of the trade, but who’s behind it and what else they’re tied to.

Ownership and connections Beady maps for trading counterparties

Built for Every Kind of Trading Firm in the UAE

Whatever you trade and however you trade it, you’re dealing with counterparties you need to trust. Beady screens and monitors them, whether you’re a commodity house in DMCC, an FX broker in DIFC or a physical trader working out of Jebel Ali.
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Beady for commodity trading houses
For Commodity Trading Houses
Screen the suppliers, buyers and vessels behind every physical trade for sanctions and adverse media, so a sanctioned party or ship doesn’t pull a commodity deal into a breach.
Beady for energy and oil traders
For Energy and Oil Traders
Screen counterparties, cargo owners and vessels against sanctions lists and watchlists. In oil and energy, sanctions and vessel risk never go away, and the penalties are heavy. Especially relevant for traders and bunkering businesses linked to Fujairah.
Beady for trade finance providers
For Trade Finance Providers
Screen every party named in a trade finance deal, including buyers, sellers and banks, for sanctions and adverse media, so a financed trade isn’t exposed to a hidden sanctioned party.
Beady for brokers and broker-dealers
For Brokers and Broker-Dealers
Screen the counterparties and clients you bring together, and the people behind them, for sanctions, PEP and adverse media, so a trade you arrange doesn’t bring risk back to your firm.
Beady for proprietary trading firms
For Proprietary Trading Firms
Screen the counterparties and venues you trade with for sanctions and adverse media risk, and keep your firm’s capital and standing away from high-risk parties.
Beady for FX and CFD brokers
For FX and CFD Brokers
Screen clients and counterparties for sanctions, PEP and adverse media at onboarding and every day after, and meet the AML obligations your SCA, DFSA or FSRA licence depends on.
Beady for metals and agri traders
For Metals, Gold and Agri Traders
Screen suppliers, buyers and the vessels behind physical shipments for sanctions and adverse media risk in every market you buy from and sell to. Gold and precious metals dealers supervised by the Ministry of Economy face particularly close AML scrutiny.
Beady for freight and shipping traders
For Freight and Shipping Traders
Screen counterparties, cargo owners and vessels against sanctions lists and watchlists, so a sanctioned ship or party doesn’t expose a shipment or charter to a breach.
Beady for institutional and OTC desks
For Institutional and OTC Desks
Screen institutional counterparties and the people behind them for sanctions, ownership and adverse media, so a high-value trading relationship starts, and stays, with a clear view of the risk.

Trade Compliance Risks Beady Helps You Catch

Export Control and Dual-Use Goods
Shipping dual-use or controlled goods to a restricted end-user can break export control rules, including the UAE’s own controls on strategic goods. Beady screens the buyers, end-users and intermediaries in a trade against sanctions, restricted party and denied party lists, and maps ownership to catch a restricted party hiding behind a buyer that looks legitimate. Beady screens the parties to a trade, not how the goods are classified, so it works alongside your export classification and licensing controls.
TBML hides dirty money inside trade, and it almost always runs through shell companies, opaque ownership and high-risk counterparties. Beady covers that side of the risk. It screens the companies, intermediaries and people behind a trade for sanctions, ownership and adverse media red flags, and traces who really controls a counterparty, so a suspect party is caught before the trade goes ahead. It works alongside the invoice and transaction controls that check pricing and documents. UAE regulators treat TBML as one of the country’s main money laundering risks, so this matters here.
Sanctioned goods and parties are often routed through third countries and re-exported to hide the real destination or owner. The UAE’s role as a global re-export hub is exactly why regulators here and abroad watch this closely. Beady maps the ownership and connections behind counterparties and intermediaries, brings out front companies and hidden links to sanctioned parties, and flags counterparties in high-risk transshipment hubs, so you don’t end up part of an evasion scheme.
Evasion depends on companies set up to look legitimate. Beady traces ownership across more than 200M entities and officers to reveal the sanctioned or high-risk party behind a shell, along with related parties and cross-border layers, so a front company doesn’t quietly pass your checks.
In physical and commodity trade, the ship carries risk too. Beady screens vessels by identifier, such as IMO numbers, against sanctions lists and watchlists, along with the cargo owners and parties behind a shipment, so a sanctioned or dark fleet vessel doesn’t pull your cargo into a breach.
A clean-looking buyer can be a front for diverting goods to a restricted end-user or destination. Beady screens end-users and the parties around a deal and maps their connections, so diversion or end-user risk shows up in screening and not after the goods have left.

Across the Markets You Trade

Trading covers many markets, and so does Beady. Screen and monitor the counterparties and parties behind your trades, whatever you trade and wherever you trade it.
Beady for oil and gas trading: cargoes, vessels and offtakers screened for sanctions before the lift
Oil and Gas
Screen counterparties, cargo owners and vessels against sanctions lists and watchlists, in a market where sanctions risk and vessel exposure never go away.
Beady for metals and mining: producers, smelters and buyers with origin and ownership checked
Metals and Mining
Screen suppliers, buyers and the parties behind physical metal trades for sanctions and adverse media risk in every market you source from.
Beady for agriculture and soft commodities: producers, warehouses and buyers checked for forced-labour and sanctions risk
Agriculture and Soft Commodities
Screen suppliers, buyers and shippers behind agri trades for sanctions and adverse media, so a physical deal isn’t exposed to a high-risk party. Relevant for the many food and agri traders using the UAE as a regional base.
Beady for power, gas and utilities: counterparties across the grid screened before the deal
Power, Gas and Utilities
Screen counterparties and partners in power and gas trading for sanctions and reputational risk in every market where you operate.
Beady for carbon and environmental markets: project owners and registries with integrity checked at source
Carbon and Environmental Markets
Screen counterparties and project partners in carbon and environmental trading for sanctions, fraud and adverse media risk, in a young and fast-moving market.
Beady for FX and currencies: clients, brokers and LPs cleared before the ticket
FX and Currencies
Screen counterparties and clients in FX trading for sanctions, PEP and adverse media, and meet the AML obligations that come with moving money.
Beady for equities: issuers, brokers and counterparties screened for sanctions and PEP pre-trade
Equities
Screen counterparties and the companies behind them for sanctions and adverse media, so an equity trade or relationship starts with a clear view of the risk.
Beady for fixed income: issuers and obligors with ownership checked behind the paper
Fixed Income
Screen issuers, counterparties and the parties behind them for sanctions and adverse media risk before and during fixed income relationships, including sukuk.
Beady for derivatives: counterparties and clearing with exposure re-checked daily
Derivatives
Screen counterparties to derivative trades and the people behind them for sanctions and adverse media, and manage the exposure a long-dated position carries.
Beady for freight and shipping: vessels, operators and charterers checked together with their owners
Freight and Shipping
Screen counterparties, charterers and vessels against sanctions lists and watchlists, so a sanctioned ship or party doesn’t put a charter or a shipment at risk.
Beady for crypto and digital assets trading: exchanges, OTC desks and counterparties screened, not just addresses
Crypto and Digital Assets
Screen the counterparties and companies behind digital asset trades for sanctions and adverse media risk, in a market VARA and other UAE regulators watch closely.
Beady for precious metals and bullion: refiners, dealers and vaults with provenance and ownership checked
Precious Metals and Bullion
Screen suppliers, buyers and refiners behind bullion trades for sanctions and adverse media. Dubai is one of the world’s biggest gold hubs, and the money laundering risks in this market are well known, so careful checks protect both you and your bank relationships.
Beady for OTC and physical markets: bilateral counterparties checked before physical delivery
OTC and Physical Markets
Screen the counterparties and parties behind bilateral, over-the-counter and physical trades for sanctions, ownership and adverse media risk.

Set Once. Monitor Daily

For a trading firm, this isn’t optional. A thorough check before you trade, then daily monitoring for every counterparty you keep dealing with.

One-Time Screening

Before you start trading with a counterparty, Beady runs a full check on the company and the people behind it in one go: sanctions, PEP, criminal records, ownership and adverse media. No documents needed. You can approve a legitimate counterparty quickly or flag a risky one before you commit.

One-time scan of a name across news, profiles, legal bases and additional sources

Ongoing Monitoring

Once a counterparty is onboarded, the first check turns into ongoing coverage. Beady rescreens every counterparty, broker and partner daily, so a new sanction, charge or scandal reaches you within hours rather than at the next review. You screen once at onboarding, and every relationship stays under watch from then on.

Ongoing Monitoring

Clear Intelligence, Built for Your Workflow

Every finding traced to its source, reports ready for audit, and results sent to the tools your team already uses.
Social Signals Monitoring
Beady also follows public social media in real time. An accusation, a breach or the first signs of a scandal involving a counterparty often appear there hours or days before the news or any official record.

How early varies by party and sector, but it covers every counterparty you screen. You’ll hear about it as early as anyone can.
Social Signals Monitoring
Messenger Integration for Daily Risk Alerts
Beady can send daily alerts to Telegram and other messaging apps with the biggest changes across your counterparties, brokers and partners. No need to log in every day.

Glance at the summary on your phone, and log in when you want the full report and the evidence.
Messenger Integration for Daily Risk Alerts
Quality of the Data Provided
Beady only uses publicly available data. It’s refreshed daily and updated as soon as something changes, and every finding links to the record it came from.

The AI doesn’t make things up. You can check any result against its source, so your decisions stand up.
Quality of the Data Provided
Report Consolidation
Bookmark the findings you need and build a report around a counterparty, a vessel or a deal. Sharing it with your legal, compliance or trade finance team takes a couple of clicks.

Everyone works from the same findings, so nobody has to rebuild the picture by hand.
Report Consolidation

How It Works

From a company’s or person’s name to a verified risk profile, and then to daily monitoring. Here’s how it goes.
Add the Party
Step 1
Add the Company or Person
Type in the counterparty, broker, partner or person you want to check. No documents needed.
Screen
Step 2
Screen
Beady checks the name against sanctions, PEP, criminal, adverse media and ownership data, plus more than 100,000 other sources, all in one go.
Map and Filter
Step 3
Map and Filter
The AI maps the ownership, throws out noise and false matches, and keeps only what actually applies.
Build the Profile
Step 4
Build the Profile
What’s confirmed goes into one audit-ready profile, sorted by severity, with a source for every finding.
Monitor and Share
Step 5
Monitor and Share
Add the counterparty to daily monitoring and share the report with your legal, compliance or trade finance team whenever you like.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Beady do for a trading firm?
Beady screens the counterparties, brokers and other parties behind your trades, plus the vessels and companies involved, against sanctions, PEP, criminal, litigation and adverse media sources. It maps their ownership across more than 200M entities and keeps monitoring them. It’s how you know who you’re trading with, avoid a sanctions breach and meet the compliance standards your banks and trade finance providers expect.
Sanctions are the biggest risk in trading, and breaches are punished hard. Beady screens every counterparty, party to a trade and vessel against the main sanctions lists, including the UAE Local Terrorist List, the UN, OFAC, the EU and the UK’s HMT, all refreshed daily. A sanctioned party or ship is caught before you trade, and every match has a source for your records.
Yes, on the counterparty side. Shipping dual-use or controlled goods to a restricted end-user can break export control rules, including the UAE’s controls on strategic goods. Beady screens the buyers, end-users and intermediaries in a trade against sanctions, restricted party and denied party lists, and maps ownership to catch a restricted party behind a buyer that looks legitimate. It checks the parties to a trade, not the goods themselves, so it works alongside your export classification and licensing controls rather than replacing them.
TBML hides dirty money inside trade, and it almost always runs through shell companies, opaque ownership and high-risk counterparties. Beady covers that side. It screens the companies, intermediaries and people behind a trade for sanctions, ownership and adverse media red flags, and traces who really controls a counterparty, so a suspect party is caught before the trade goes ahead. It works alongside your invoice and transaction controls that check pricing and documents, rather than replacing them.
Yes. Evasion usually routes sanctioned goods or parties through third countries, front companies and re-export to hide the real destination or owner. Beady maps the ownership and connections behind counterparties and intermediaries, brings out front companies and hidden links to sanctioned parties, screens vessels by identifier for dark fleet and sanctioned ship activity, and flags counterparties in high-risk transshipment hubs. You find out before you become part of the scheme.
Yes. For physical and commodity trading, Beady screens vessels against sanctions lists and watchlists using identifiers like IMO numbers, along with the cargo owners and parties behind a shipment. A sanctioned ship, a dark fleet vessel or a high-risk cargo owner gets flagged before it can pull your trade into a breach.
Yes. Beady runs KYC on the people behind a counterparty and KYB on the companies themselves, screening against sanctions, PEP, adverse media and ownership data and mapping who really controls a trading company. It’s the counterparty due diligence trading firms need, in minutes rather than days.
Yes. Beyond the pre-trade check, Beady rescreens the counterparties you keep dealing with every day, so a new sanction, charge or scandal reaches you within hours, not just before your next deal. You can get alerts in the platform or as daily summaries on Telegram.
No. Beady focuses on counterparty risk, meaning who you’re trading with, not on monitoring your own trading for market abuse or insider dealing. It works alongside trade surveillance tools and covers the part they don’t: who’s on the other side.
Seconds to minutes. Beady searches every source, maps ownership, filters out the noise and builds one profile in a single automated run. That’s fast enough to screen a counterparty before a fast-moving trade without holding up the deal.
More than 100,000 public sources. These include the main sanctions lists, such as the UAE Local Terrorist List, the UN, OFAC, the EU and UK HMT, as well as PEP databases, international most-wanted and criminal registries, and various regulatory and enforcement lists. Beady also covers adverse media from more than 100,000 news sources, corporate registries with more than 200 million entities and officers, and public social media. Everything is refreshed daily.
Keyword alerts throw a stream of mentions at you and leave you to sort them out. Beady starts from risk. The AI checks that a hit is really about your counterparty, works out how relevant it is and removes up to 95% of the noise. It then combines sanctions, ownership, litigation and criminal data with news coverage, and every item links to its source. You get verified risk information, not a raw feed.
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