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Entity screening

Screen your counterparties
against 50M+
Chinese entities.

Screen your counterparties
against 50M+ Chinese
entities.

Decision-ready intelligence on state ownership, defence links, sanctions exposure, and critical-technology connections. Delivered as a structured report in 48 hours, no integration required.

YOUR LIST · 5 OF 500
China Corp Ltd
SOE
DEF
CT
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SOE
The problem

Identifying who is behind a Chinese counterparty is harder than it looks.

Traditional providers tell you a shareholder's name. They cannot tell you whether that shareholder is a state-linked investment vehicle, whether ownership routes through a military-civil fusion structure, or whether a nominally private company is operationally directed by a provincial state-owned holding entity.

50M+
Chinese entities resolved
7 yrs
Original Chinese-language collection
0%
Reliance on Chinese providers
Our approach

Three signals. One determination.

A name on a sanctions list is not a risk assessment. State ownership reaches counterparties through layered structures, minority aggregations, and parent chains the headline name will not reveal.

Direct flags

01

The submitted entity itself carries a state, defence, or government end-user tag in our database. The clearest case. Roughly half of risk-tagged entities in a typical batch resolve here.

Ownership chain

02

Risk inherits from any entity in the investment chain at any depth. Includes minority shareholdings that aggregate above the 50% covered-person threshold, patterns routine providers cannot compute.

People links

03

Personnel associated with the submitted entity are linked to risk-tagged entities elsewhere in our network. Often the only signal available where structures terminate offshore.

What you receive

Three risk dimensions. One structured output.

Every entity in your batch is matched, classified across three independent risk dimensions, and returned as part of a structured report ready for legal review.

State ownership

SOE

Multi-layer UBO scoring against any threshold. Identifies state-linked investment vehicles and provincial SASAC structures that conventional providers miss.

Defence linkage

DEF

Procurement records, military-civil fusion participation, classified end-user designations, PLA supply relationships.

Critical technology

CT

Mapping across the 18 White House CET categories. Flags entities active in restricted technology domains, including dual-use applications.

Sanctions cross-check

SANCTIONS

Every matched entity cross-checked against BIS Entity List, DoD 1260H, OFAC SDN, EU and UK designations via OpenSanctions.

How the service evolves

A phased service. Phase 1 available today.

Each phase extends what you can screen and how continuously.

01
AVAILABLE NOW

Direct China entity screening

Submit a list of Chinese entities. We match, apply SOE / DEF / CT tags, score state ownership, and return a structured report. 48-hour turnaround.

48-hour standard turnaround. 24-hour priority on request. No minimum batch size. Single-entity queries supported.

02
Q2/Q3 2026

Foreign entity screening

Submit non-Chinese entities. We trace ownership through international structures and apply our intelligence layer to any Chinese node identified.

03
Q2/Q3 2026

Active monitoring

Submit your watchlist. Receive alerts on ownership changes, sanctions designations, and news signals indicating elevated risk.

Sample report

What the deliverable looks like.

A multi-section PDF report covering executive summary, methodology, risk distribution, priority entity profiles, and consolidated tables. Anonymised sample below.

PHASE 1 · DSP COMPLIANCE
China Entity Intelligence
Batch Screening Analysis
Batch DTN-DSP-2026-XXXX · datenna.com
Executive Summary
1962846
Concurrent
Risk-tagged
Matched
Submitted

Of 2,000 entities submitted, 1,962 matched. are state-owned, defence-linked, critical-technology. entities reach the highest concurrent-risk threshold and should be treated as presumptively restricted under DSP. Full profiles in Section 4.

Priority entity table
EntityConfStateTagsRisk
China Corp LtdHIGH100%SOEDEFCTCRITICAL
HIGH100%SOEDEFCRITICAL
HIGH100%SOEDEFCRITICAL
HIGH74%CTHIGH
HIGH50.5% agg.SOEHIGH
HIGH40.1%CTCRITICAL
MOD42%CTHIGH
HIGH100%SOEDEFCRITICAL
Service limitations

Foreign entity screening. Phase 1 screens submitted Chinese entities directly. Foreign-registered entities with Chinese ownership upstream are addressed in Phase 2.

Individual residential status. No comprehensive source for Chinese employee directories or registered residential addresses. handled through contractual representations.

Data freshness. Continuously refreshed from original Chinese-language sources. Recent ownership changes within 48-72 hours may not yet be reflected.

Use cases

Where teams use Entity Screening today.

Export control & end-user

Resolve end-users on licence applications. Flag dual-use and military-civil fusion connections.

M&A and investment diligence

Resolve target ownership through Chinese intermediaries. Identify state and PLA links before signing.

Supply chain baselining

Screen Tier 1 through Tier 3 suppliers. Make your supplier list defensible.

How it works

Simple to engage. No integration required.

Submit
01

CSV or Excel. Name and country minimum. USCC improves match confidence.

Match
02

Direct match against the Datenna 50M+ database with confidence scoring.

Classify
03

SOE, DEF, CT tags applied. Sanctions cross-check via OpenSanctions.

Score
04

Each entity assigned a priority tier. Legal sees what needs action.

Deliver
05

PDF report and flat file. 48-hour standard turnaround.

GET STARTED

Have a counterparty list? Send us a sample.

We will run a small proof against your list, return the report, and walk you through it on a scoping call. Phase 1 is available today.