Verify the counterparty — that's just the beginning. After signing, monitoring matters more
At DD time the counterparty looks clean: registries are fine, no sanctions hits, the beneficiary is named. Six months later ownership shifts, OFAC adds them, a bankruptcy petition is filed, a regulator hands out a fine. You learn it from the news — by which point exiting without penalty is no longer an option. Watch picks up monitoring from the day the contract goes live and tells you the next morning, not half a year later.
Price after a short brief, fixed before we start. Digest plus a critical alert within less than 24 hours.
- One counterparty
- State registries and corporate filings — changes in director, beneficiary, charter, registered activities
- Sanctions lists OFAC / EU / UK / UN / NSDC — daily screening
- Open debts and enforcement proceedings — new entries
- Basic media beacons — mentions in news and press releases
- PDF digest with the round-up of changes and a short analyst note
- Everything in Watch Lite
- New court cases — as plaintiff and as defendant, classified by dispute type and amount
- Regulatory warnings — central bank, securities, antimonopoly and sector watchdogs across the relevant jurisdictions
- Bankruptcy signals — petitions, opening of proceedings, moratorium, liquidation, creditor settlement
- Press flags — investigations, raids, criminal proceedings against key persons, negative trade-media mentions
- Email + Telegram alert on anything critical within less than 24 hours of the record
- Everything in Watch Standard — for each of the 5 counterparties
- Digest twice a week — per counterparty or consolidated, your choice
- Email + Telegram alert on critical events within less than 24 hours
- Quarterly short trend recap — where the risk is moving across the portfolio
- Swap a counterparty in the set at any time during the year, no extra charge
- Roughly a third saved versus the monthly model when paid annually
We quote the price after a short brief and fix it before work starts.
Six signals delivered to your inbox the day they appear
Change of owner or beneficiary
The counterparty you signed with and the one six months later can be two different people. We track shifts in owner, director, beneficiary, charter, and registered activities. If a quiet re-registration hides someone on a sanctions list — we'll see it.
New court cases
Every new claim against the counterparty or filed by them: tax, labour, counterparty disputes, criminal proceedings. We classify by type and amount. A wave of lawsuits over a quarter is a weak signal that the business is cracking — better to see it early than to package the file for enforcement later.
Sanctions OFAC / EU / UK / UN / NSDC
Daily screening of the counterparty and its beneficiaries against the main sanctions and PEP lists. Plus the silent exposure: shared UBO with a sanctioned party, an RU or BY supplier in the chain, new assets in a sanctioned jurisdiction. This is the single most expensive zone — your client landing on OFAC via a counterparty shuts off USD settlements overnight.
Bankruptcy signals
Petitions, opening of proceedings, moratorium, liquidation, creditor settlement. Between the first petition and liquidation there are usually months — enough time to calmly pull back an advance or re-route a shipment. Watch flags this at "petition accepted", not at "proceedings closed".
Regulatory warnings
Central bank, securities regulator, energy commission, antimonopoly authority, sector watchdogs — fines, warnings, license suspensions, breach decisions. Regulators issue a "yellow card" well before the final ruling. It's the signal your counterparty already has problems while the market still doesn't know.
Press flags and investigations
Investigative journalism, raids, criminal proceedings against key persons, negative mentions in trade media. The digest carries a curated set of stories and a short analyst note — what surfaced and how serious it is. Not every press flag is critical; we separate the news noise from the real signals.
From a record in the registry to a message in your inbox — under 24 hours
Monthly monitoring vs $500K to unwind a 12-month contract over missed sanctions
- You signed a 12-month deal worth $500K. Six months in, the counterparty landed on the OFAC sanctions list. Watch flagged it the next day — the client exited without a default penalty
- The most expensive post-signing surprises — a quiet ownership swap to a sanctioned nominee, a fresh lawsuit surfacing from prior history, the bankruptcy of a subsidiary that was holding the assets
- Catching the change before the agent bank or the counterparty itself goes public is the window to act first — terminate, renegotiate, demand additional security
- Watch is a fixed monthly line in the budget. Over 12 months an unnoticed problem at the counterparty costs five to seven figures in penalties, losses and reputation
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