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How trading firms can strengthen their counterparty screening and monitoring

Trading runs on counterparties, and every one of them carries risk. Deal with the wrong supplier, buyer, or broker, and you can end up trading with a sanctioned party, funding fraud, or watching a payment freeze mid-transaction. A stronger approach treats screening as continuous: check every counterparty, and the people and vessels behind a trade, before you deal, then keep them monitored. Beady makes that practical, combining deep pre-trade screening with daily monitoring of the counterparties across your book, so a new sanction, charge, or scandal reaches you as it happens, not after the deal’s done.

Every counterparty checked before the trade and re-checked daily
Why traditional and manual counterparty checks fall short for trading

Manual counterparty checks can’t keep up with the pace of trading. Deals close in hours, and a rushed check on a counterparty’s sanctions exposure, ownership, and history often goes shallow, or gets skipped. Ownership is especially hard: the real party behind a trading entity is frequently buried under offshore layers a quick search never untangles. And a check before one trade is a one-time snapshot. A counterparty that was clean last quarter can be sanctioned, charged, or exposed today, and a one-off check will never tell you, leaving you exposed across every trade that follows.

Manual counterparty checks versus Beady: days per counterparty against minutes, kept current
Why pre-trade and ongoing counterparty risk monitoring both matter

The two moments carry different risks, and both matter. Before you sign, the question is whether a customer, vendor, or partner, and the people behind them, are who they claim to be, and whether anything, a sanction, an ownership link, a scandal, should stop you. After you sign, the question is whether anything has changed across the relationships you keep. Screen only at signing and you’re exposed for the whole contract; monitor only occasionally and you’re always behind. Beady covers both, a thorough check upfront and continuous monitoring after, so your view of every third party 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 in trading rarely costs you just the one deal. It costs far more. Deal with a sanctioned party or a sanctioned vessel, and you can breach the law without meaning to at all, with penalties for sanctions failures running well into the millions. Beyond the fines, cargo and payments can be frozen, banks can withdraw your trade-finance lines, and a serious breach can shut you out of whole markets. The reputational hit, meanwhile, sticks around. What makes all of it worse is that most of it could have been avoided with proper screening in the first place. That is the job Beady does, checking every counterparty, broker, and vessel against sanctions and adverse media before you trade, and continuing to watch afterward.

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

AI is what lets a trading firm screen counterparties at the speed deals demand, without cutting corners. Beady checks a counterparty, and the people, entities, and vessels behind a trade, against sanctions, adverse media, litigation, and 100,000+ sources in minutes, maps ownership across 200M+ entities and officers, and strips out up to 95% of the noise, so your team sees real risk, not false positives. Then it keeps monitoring daily, flagging a new sanction, charge, or scandal within hours. Every finding links back to its source, so your compliance is fast, thorough, and defensible.

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 constantly across every market you operate in. Falling behind, even briefly, can turn a routine trade into a breach. Beady refreshes sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media data daily, so your screening always reflects the current rules, not last quarter’s.
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 slips through. Beady gives every team one consistent, source-linked check, so a counterparty is screened the same way whoever runs it, and no trade skips a control along the way.
03 Maintaining Clean, Audit-Ready Documentation
When a regulator or auditor asks how you cleared a counterparty, guesswork won’t do. Beady links every finding to its source and keeps a full record of each screen, so you can produce clean, defensible, audit-ready documentation for any trade, on demand, rather than reconstructing it under pressure.
04 Avoiding Cost Blowouts From Delays, Penalties and Remediation
Compliance failures are expensive in every direction: penalties for a breach, delays when a trade stalls for checks, and remediation that can run for months. Beady prevents the breach and speeds the check at once, screening counterparties in minutes, so compliance protects your margins instead of eroding them.

Why Trading Firms Need Beady

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Screening counterparties before you trade: registry, sanctions, adverse media, decision
Screen Counterparties Before You Trade
Every counterparty you trade with carries risk you can’t see on a contract. Beady screens the people and companies behind a counterparty against sanctions, PEP, criminal, and adverse-media sources before you deal, so you catch a high-risk party before a trade, not after the cargo has shipped 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 against sanctions and adverse-media risk, so a compromised party anywhere in the chain doesn’t expose you to a breach or a loss you never saw coming.
Mapping ownership to uncover who is really behind a counterparty
Map Ownership and Uncover Who's Really Behind a Counterparty
Trading entities are often deliberately opaque. Beady maps ownership across 200M+ entities and officers, surfacing the beneficial owners and hidden connections behind a counterparty, so an offshore structure doesn’t conceal a sanctioned or high-risk party behind a legitimate-looking trading company.
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 and watchlists, using identifiers like IMO numbers, so a sanctioned vessel or cargo owner doesn’t pull your trade into a breach.
Catching sanctions and PEP exposure before a deal, including the 50% ownership rule
Catch Sanctions and PEP Exposure Before a Deal
Sanctions are the sharpest risk in trading, and the penalties are severe. Beady screens every counterparty and party to a trade against OFAC, the EU, the UN, and the UK’s HMT, plus PEP data, refreshed daily, so 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 surfaces publicly before it reaches you. Beady checks counterparties and the people behind them for the arrests, litigation, bankruptcies, and adverse media that reveal a bad actor, so an integrity problem shows up in screening, not in a defaulted contract or a fraudulent 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 keeps the counterparties across your book under daily watch, so a new sanction, charge, or scandal reaches you within hours, giving you time to pause, renegotiate, or exit before it becomes your problem.
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. Beady helps protect it, screening and monitoring the counterparties you deal with so a sanctioned or fraudulent party doesn’t cost you the banking and financing relationships your trading business runs on.

A counterparty cleared last quarter can be sanctioned before the cargo lands.

Counterparties, owners, vessels and intermediaries screened before the trade and watched for the life of the contract.
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01 Counterparty Onboarding (KYC/KYB)
Onboarding a new counterparty means knowing the company and the people behind it. Beady runs KYC and KYB and maps ownership, screening for sanctions, litigation, and adverse media, so you know exactly who you’re about to start trading with before you open the relationship.
02 Pre-Trade Counterparty Screening
Before a specific trade, run a fast check on everyone involved. Beady screens the counterparty, brokers, and parties to the deal against sanctions and adverse-media risk in minutes, so you can confirm a trade is clear to proceed, or stop it, before you commit.
03 Trade Finance and Documentary Checks
Trade finance carries heavy sanctions and fraud risk. Beady screens the buyers, sellers, banks, and parties named in a trade-finance transaction against sanctions and adverse media, so a financed trade isn’t exposed to a sanctioned party hidden in the paperwork.
04 Vessel and Cargo Sanctions Screening
In physical and commodity trading, the vessel and cargo matter. Beady screens vessels against sanctions and watchlists by identifier, and the parties behind a shipment, so a sanctioned ship or cargo owner doesn’t drag your trade into a breach you’ll answer for.
05 Ongoing Counterparty Monitoring
Counterparty risk changes after the first trade. Beady keeps your counterparties under daily watch, so a new sanction, charge, or scandal is flagged as it happens, giving you time to act before a cleared counterparty becomes a live risk to your next deal.
06 Broker, Agent and Intermediary Screening
Your risk extends to everyone acting between you and a trade. Beady screens brokers, agents, and intermediaries, and the people behind them, against sanctions and reputational exposure, so a compromised intermediary doesn’t quietly become your firm’s problem.
07 Investigations and Escalations
When a counterparty raises a flag, you need answers fast. Beady gives your compliance team a source-linked view of any company, individual, or vessel across sanctions, criminal, litigation, and adverse-media sources, so you can resolve an escalation quickly and document the decision.

What Beady Checks

People

There are always people behind a counterparty, and more often than not, that is where the risk sits. Beady screens those individuals, the owners, the directors, the principals, and the brokers, agents, and connected parties around them. Each one gets checked against sanctions, PEP, criminal, and most-wanted lists, along with adverse media spanning 100,000+ sources, and anyone politically exposed enough to raise the risk gets flagged. Beady does not simply take the company on the contract at face value. It looks beyond it to the people who really stand behind a trade, which is how you come to know exactly who you are dealing with.

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

The counterparty, and the vessel behind a shipment, carry risk that isn’t obvious from a name on a deal. Beady screens trading companies, suppliers, buyers, and counterparties against sanctions, litigation, adverse media, and watchlists, and checks vessels and trade assets against sanctions by identifier. It pays particular attention to shell companies and opaque offshore structures, common in trading and often used to hide who really controls a business or move sanctioned goods. So 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 is precisely the thing you need to see. Beady maps out beneficial ownership and the whole web of connections around a counterparty, drawing on a database of more than 200 million entities and their officers. It works its way through holding companies and intermediaries until it reaches the people who genuinely own and control the business. Along the way it surfaces related parties, conflicts of interest, and any links to sanctioned or high-risk entities. The result is that you understand not just the company on the other side of the trade, but who stands behind it and what else they are tied to.

Ownership and connections Beady maps for trading counterparties

Built for Every Kind of Trading Firm

Whatever you trade and however you trade it, you’re dealing with counterparties you need to trust. Beady screens and monitors them, whatever kind of trading firm you run.
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Beady for commodity trading houses
For Commodity Trading Houses
Screen the suppliers, buyers, and vessels behind every physical trade against 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 and watchlists, in a market where sanctions exposure and vessel risk are constant and the penalties are severe.
Beady for trade finance providers
For Trade Finance Providers
Screen every party named in a trade-finance transaction, buyers, sellers, and banks, against 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 connect and the people behind them against sanctions, PEP, and adverse media, so a trade you facilitate doesn’t carry risk back to your firm.
Beady for proprietary trading firms
For Proprietary Trading Firms
Screen the counterparties and venues you trade with against sanctions and adverse-media risk, so your firm’s capital and standing aren’t exposed to a high-risk party.
Beady for FX and CFD brokers
For FX and CFD Brokers
Screen clients and counterparties against sanctions, PEP, and adverse media at onboarding and continuously, meeting the AML obligations your licence depends on.
Beady for metals and agri traders
For Metals and Agri Traders
Screen suppliers, buyers, and the vessels behind physical shipments against sanctions and adverse-media risk across every market you source and sell in.
Beady for freight and shipping traders
For Freight and Shipping Traders
Screen counterparties, cargo owners, and vessels against sanctions and watchlists, so a sanctioned ship or party doesn’t expose a shipment or a charter to a breach.
Beady for institutional and OTC desks
For Institutional and OTC Desks
Screen institutional counterparties and the people behind them against sanctions, ownership, and adverse media, so a high-value trading relationship starts, and continues, with a clear view of the risk.

Across the Markets You Trade

Trading spans markets, and so does Beady. Screen and monitor the counterparties and parties behind your trades, whatever you trade and wherever you trade it.
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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 and watchlists, in a market where sanctions risk and vessel exposure are ever-present.
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 against sanctions and adverse-media risk across every sourcing market.
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 against sanctions and adverse media, so a physical deal isn’t exposed to a high-risk party.
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 against sanctions and reputational risk across every market you operate in.
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 against 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 against sanctions, PEP, and adverse media, meeting 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 entities behind them against sanctions and adverse media, so an equity trade or relationship starts with a clear view of risk.
Beady for fixed income: issuers and obligors with ownership checked behind the paper
Fixed Income
Screen issuers, counterparties, and the parties behind them against sanctions and adverse-media risk before and during fixed-income relationships.
Beady for derivatives: counterparties and clearing with exposure re-checked daily
Derivatives
Screen counterparties to derivative trades and the people behind them against sanctions and adverse media, managing 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 and watchlists, so a sanctioned ship or party doesn’t expose a charter or a shipment.
Beady for crypto and digital assets trading: exchanges, OTC desks and counterparties screened, not just addresses
Crypto and Digital Assets
Screen the counterparties and entities behind digital-asset trades against sanctions and adverse-media risk, in a market under intense regulatory scrutiny.
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 against sanctions and adverse media, protecting a market with well-known money-laundering risk.
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 against sanctions, ownership, and adverse-media risk.

Set Once. Monitor Daily

For a trading firm, this is essential: a thorough screen before you trade, then continuous monitoring for every counterparty you keep dealing with. Screen before the deal, watch after it.

One Time Screening (Onboarding)

Before you sign a customer, vendor, or partner, Beady runs a complete screen on the company, and the people behind it, against sanctions, PEP, criminal records, ownership, and adverse media, in a single pass, no documents required. It’s built for the decision in front of you, so you can approve a legitimate third party fast or flag a risky one before you commit.

One-time scan of a name

Ongoing Monitoring

Once a third party is onboarded, that screen becomes continuous coverage. Beady rescreens every customer, vendor, and partner daily, so a new sanction, charge, or scandal reaches you within hours rather than at the next review. Screen a party once at onboarding, then keep every relationship under a live, always-current watch.

Ongoing monitoring

Clear Intelligence, Built for Your Workflow

Trace every finding to its source, produce audit-ready reports, and feed risk intelligence straight into the tools your team already uses.
Social Signals Monitoring
Beady watches public social sources in real time, not just official lists. Risk signals on a customer, vendor, or partner, an accusation, a breach, a brewing scandal, often surface on social media hours or days before they reach the news or an official record.
How early they appear varies by party and sector, but social monitoring runs across every third party you screen, so you get the earliest possible warning of new risk.
Social Signals Monitoring
Messenger Integration for Daily Risk Alerts
Beady connects to messaging platforms like Telegram to send daily alerts on the most important changes across your customers, vendors, and partners, with no need to log into the portal each day.
Skim a short summary on your phone, and when something needs a closer look, sign in for the full report and the evidence behind every flag.
Messenger Integration for Daily Risk Alerts
Quality of the Data Provided
Beady works only with publicly available data, refreshed daily and updated as soon as a change appears. Every finding carries a direct link to the record it came from.
And the AI never invents or embellishes. Each result can be checked against its original source, so a decision rests on evidence you can verify, not assumptions.
Quality of the Data Provided
Report Consolidation
Bookmark the findings that matter to build a report around a customer, a vendor, or a deal. Share it in a couple of clicks with your legal, compliance, or security team.
Everyone works from the same set of verified findings, so no one has to reassemble the picture by hand.
Report Consolidation

How It Works

A step-by-step look at how a company or person’s name becomes a complete, verified risk profile, then an always-current watch.
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Adding an entity to Beady
Step 1
Add the Company or Person
Enter the customer, vendor, partner, or individual you want to screen, by name, to begin. No documents required.
Screening the entity
Step 2
Screen
Beady checks the name against sanctions, PEP, criminal, adverse media, ownership, and 100,000+ other sources in a single pass.
Signal processing and noise filtering
Step 3
Map and Filter
The AI maps ownership, filters out noise and false matches, and surfaces only the risks that genuinely apply.
Adding confirmed findings to the entity report
Step 4
Build the Profile
Confirmed findings go into a single, audit-ready profile, ranked by severity, with each one linked to its source.
Sharing the entity report
step 5
Monitor and Share
Add the party to daily monitoring, and share the report with your legal, compliance, or security team whenever you need it.

Frequently
Asked Questions

What does Beady do for a software or technology company?
Beady screens the customers, vendors, partners, investors, and people you deal with against sanctions, PEP, criminal, litigation, and adverse-media sources, maps their ownership across 200M+ entities, and monitors them continuously. It’s how you know who you’re selling to, buying from, and partnering with, and stay ahead of the sanctions, export-control, and reputational risk that come with a global tech business.
Yes. Selling software, cloud services, or hardware to a sanctioned party can constitute a breach of sanctions and export-control law. Beady screens every customer, buyer, and partner against the major sanctions regimes, namely OFAC, the EU, the UN, and the UK’s HMT, using data that is refreshed daily. This ensures that a restricted party is identified before a deal closes, and every match is source-linked for your records.
Yes. Beady screens the companies and people behind your vendors, suppliers, and subprocessors against sanctions, adverse media, and ownership risk, so you know the third parties in your stack and supply chain are safe to rely on, and aren’t hiding a sanctioned owner or a history that should concern you.
Yes. Whether you’re acquiring a company or taking on an investor or acquirer, Beady screens the target or party, and the people behind it, against sanctions, litigation, ownership, and adverse-media risk in one report, so a hidden risk surfaces during diligence rather than after the deal is done.
No. Beady screens the people and companies you deal with for sanctions, ownership, fraud, and reputational risk, it doesn’t assess a vendor’s security posture, scan for vulnerabilities, or automate SOC 2 or ISO compliance. It complements those tools, answering who you’re dealing with rather than how secure their systems are.
Yes. Monitoring does not end once a third party has been onboarded. Beady continues to rescreen your customers, vendors, and partners every day, so that if a sanction is issued, a charge is filed, or a scandal emerges, the information reaches you within hours instead of waiting until the next review. You can choose to receive alerts within the platform or as daily summaries through Telegram.
The answer is seconds to minutes, and the reason lies in how the check is run. Rather than working through the sources, ownership, and noise as a series of manual stages, Beady completes all of it in one automated pass and produces a single consolidated profile at the end. Because of this, a customer or vendor can be screened at the point of onboarding without slowing anything down.
Beady draws on 100,000+ publicly available sources. These include the principal global sanctions lists, namely OFAC, the EU, the UN, and UK HMT, as well as PEP databases, international most-wanted and criminal registries, and a range of regulatory and enforcement lists. Coverage also extends to adverse media across 100,000+ news sources, corporate registries spanning over 200 million entities and officers, and public social sources. Every source is refreshed on a daily basis.
Where keyword alerts generate a stream of mentions for you to interpret, Beady is built around risk from the outset. The AI verifies that a hit is genuinely about your target, evaluates how relevant it is, and filters out up to 95 percent of the noise. It then brings sanctions, ownership, litigation, and criminal data together with news coverage, and every item is traceable to its source. As a result, you receive verified risk intelligence rather than a raw feed.

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