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BASTION

Screening that never sleeps

BASTION is continuous KYC, KYB & AML. It onboards an entity, fixes a clean baseline, then watches it for the rest of the relationship — re-screening against sanctions, PEP, adverse media and ownership change, and raising an alert the moment the picture moves.

VERDAQ · CONFIDENTIAL · 2026
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THE PROBLEM · 1 OF 2

A clean check goes stale the moment it's filed

Drag across the relationship. The file you signed off at onboarding never changes — but the entity behind it does. Watch the gap open.

AS LAST CHECKED · POINT-IN-TIME
Meridian Commodities FZE
Onboarding file signed 14 Jan 2026. Sanctions, PEP & media all clear at that date.
CLEAR
Last refreshed 0 days ago
ACTUAL STATUS ON 14 Jan 2026CLEAR
14 Jan
JanFebMarAprMayJun
Baseline clean. Nothing has changed since onboarding — yet.
THE PROBLEM · 2 OF 2

The signal is real. It's just scattered.

Everything you need to judge this entity already exists — in five places that don't talk to each other. Tap each source to pull it into one resolved profile.

0/5
SOURCES UNIFIED
RESOLVED ENTITY
Meridian Commodities FZE
1 FLAG · MONITOR
THE SOLUTION

Onboard once. Watch for the life of the relationship.

BASTION turns due diligence from a one-off file into a standing loop. Four moves, each owned by a module, each written to an immutable record.

01
Onboard
Resolve the entity and unwind its ownership, then screen every layer at the door.
SCN · UBO
02
Baseline
Fix a clean, evidenced starting point — the verdict, every source, the exact date.
PEP · ADV
03
Watch
Re-screen on a schedule and on event triggers. The file never goes stale again.
WATCH
04
Alert
When the picture moves, raise a triaged alert for an analyst to action and sign off.
WATCH · LEDGER

One entity · one evidence trail · one verdict that stays current. The module screens follow.

WHAT IT IS, AND WHAT IT IS NOT

Continuous intelligence. Not a checkbox.

Most KYC tooling answers one question once. BASTION holds the answer current — and is built to the standard a regulator actually reads.

✓ WHAT BASTION IS
  • Continuous — re-screens for the life of the relationship, not once at onboarding
  • Evidence-grade — every verdict cites its source, list version and timestamp
  • Deterministic & explainable — the risk decision is a rule a regulator can read
  • Human-gated — an analyst signs off every decision; nothing auto-approves
✕ WHAT IT IS NOT
  • Not a one-off check that ages out the day it is filed
  • Not a credit bureau or an opaque score you cannot explain
  • Not a black box — ML may raise a flag, but never decides a case
  • Not a data broker — a firm's data never leaves its own instance
CONTINUOUS · EXPLAINABLE · HUMAN-GATED — deterministic decisions, ML only ever assists.
SCREEN AN ENTITY

Four checks, one verdict, at the door

Sanctions, PEP, adverse media and ownership run together and resolve to a single, evidenced verdict. Run it on the case entity.

MODULES DEMONSTRATED SCNPEPADVUBO
THE OSINT GRAPH

Risk usually sits one hop away

Click a node to expand its connections. The subject is clean on its own — the exposure is in who it's connected to.

MODULE DEMONSTRATED OSG open-source graph CLICK A NODE
Select a node
Start with Meridian Commodities FZE and expand outward to reveal the network.
UNWIND OWNERSHIP

Keep drilling until you hit a human

Corporate layers and nominees exist to blur control. BASTION looks through every one to the natural-person beneficial owners.

MODULE DEMONSTRATED UBO beneficial ownership
Meridian Commodities FZESUBJECT · UAE FREE ZONESUBJECT
100%Meridian Holdings LtdBVI · CORPORATE PARENTCOMPANY
55%Terra Nominees LtdNOMINEE ARRANGEMENT — CONCEALS OWNERNOMINEE
55%Lena KovačNATURAL PERSON · EFFECTIVE 55% VIA NOMINEEUBO
45%Aurelio VanceNATURAL PERSON · DIRECTOR · EFFECTIVE 45%UBO
Two beneficial owners identified — Lena Kovač (55%, surfaced through a nominee) and Aurelio Vance (45%). Deepest layer: 3. The nominee is flagged for enhanced review.
CONTINUOUS MONITORING · THE DIFFERENTIATOR

Nobody was watching. BASTION was.

After onboarding, the entity stays under watch. Press play and let time run — the moment the world changes, the alert raises itself.

MODULES DEMONSTRATED WATCHSCNLEDGER
Meridian Commodities FZE
UNDER WATCH SINCE 14 JAN 2026 · CASE BAS-2026-0417
WATCHING
0 analyst actions until something changes.
⚠ ALERT RAISED — SANCTIONS NEXUS
A newly designated entity shares director Aurelio Vance with Meridian. WATCH re-screened on the OFAC delta, SCN returned a hit-by-association, and the case auto-escalated to triage. An override was appended to the ledger — nothing was overwritten.
ALERT TRIAGE

The machine recommends. A human decides.

Every alert lands in a queue with a deterministic recommendation and its evidence. Nothing clears, escalates or blocks until an analyst signs it off.

DATA PROTECTION BY DESIGN

Prove what you knew, without hoarding the data

The audit trail records hashes and outcomes, never the sensitive documents themselves — so BASTION can prove a check happened without becoming the breach.

✓ WHAT BASTION STORES
  • Hashes & pointers — a fingerprint of each document, not the document
  • Verdicts & evidence — the decision, the matched list and its version
  • Timestamps & actor — who screened, who signed off, exactly when
  • Structured findings — UBO %, screening hits, alert dispositions
✕ WHAT IT NEVER STORES
  • Raw ID documents in the clear, beyond a defined retention window
  • Plaintext PII in the data lake — sensitive fields are encrypted at rest
  • Anything outside the firm's own instance — no data leaves
  • Records sold, shared or pooled with third parties
LAWFUL BASIS
Legal obligation & legitimate interest under GDPR Art. 6 — AML/CTF duties.
MINIMISATION
Only what a decision needs is held; the rest is hashed or discarded.
RESIDENCY
Firm-owned instance. Data never leaves; SQLite local or the firm's own server.
ART. 22
No solely-automated decisions — a human signs off every outcome.
THE ENGINE ROOM

Seven modules. Every risk has an owner.

Each module owns one specific way a counterparty turns into a problem. Tap one to see what it does and the risk it carries.

Pick a module
Each one removes a place where risk used to hide. Together they make a single check insufficient — by design.
THE AUDIT LEDGER

Written once. Never rewritten.

The whole case — onboarding, the alert, the analyst's call — is one append-only record a regulator can read. Try to alter a row.

MODULE DEMONSTRATED LEDGER append-only audit
AUDIT RECORD · CASE BAS-2026-0417
Immutable — an override is appended as a new entry, never a change to an old one.
WHO IT'S FOR

Built for the teams who can't be wrong

For anyone who has to keep knowing who they're dealing with — continuous, evidence-grade, and current for the life of the relationship.

Fintechs & PSPs — onboarding at volume
Banks — correspondent & trade finance
Law firms — client & matter due diligence
Compliance teams — perpetual KYC
See BASTION watch your book.
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