Counterparty Watch · Post-signing monitoring

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.

From $149/mo. Digest plus a critical alert within less than 24 hours.

Watch Lite
$149/mo
📨 Weekly digest
  • 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
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Watch Standard
$249/mo
📨 Digest 2×/week + critical alert in <24 h
  • 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
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Watch Pack
$999/yr × 5
📨 Standard scope for 5 counterparties
  • 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
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What we monitor

Six signals delivered to your inbox the day they appear

01 · Ownership

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.

02 · Litigation

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.

03 · Sanctions

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.

04 · Bankruptcy

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".

05 · Regulatory

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.

06 · Press flags

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.

How the trigger works

From a record in the registry to a message in your inbox — under 24 hours

01 · CATCH
Registry updates
A record appears in the state register, court database, OFAC, the bankruptcy list or a sector regulator. Watch polls the sources for each counterparty between one and three times a day, depending on data type.
02 · CLASSIFY
Analyst classifies
The record goes through a double filter. A script kills the noise by pattern, an analyst sets the level: critical (immediate alert), high (in the next digest), regular (weekly recap). Without this the critical drowns in noise.
03 · ALERT
Email or message
Critical events go out by email plus Telegram within less than 24 hours of the record, with a source link, a screenshot and a short "what this means for you" note. Digests land on a fixed day: Lite once a week, Standard twice.
04 · ACT
You have time to act
Between the record appearing and the moment the problem becomes a public story there are usually weeks. That lag is your window: terminate without penalty, pull an advance, re-route a shipment, settle with creditors — while the market still hasn't caught on.
More on the Intelligence Cycle methodology →
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Why it pays off

$149/mo of 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
  • Over 12 months Watch costs less than one hour of a senior lawyer. Over 12 months an unnoticed problem at the counterparty costs five to seven figures in penalties, losses and reputation
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This is intelligence analysis, not legal advice. Argus Intel works exclusively with publicly available information — state registries, corporate databases, sanctions lists, open offshore leaks, court databases, regulator filings. We deliver facts and a risk read; your lawyer interprets the contract, decides on termination, force-majeure or claim assignment, and runs the negotiation with the counterparty.
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