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Featured Sanctions watch AUG 6, 2026 · 6 MIN

Shadow fleets, shell layers: reading the largest vessel designation waves

The largest vessel designation waves of the past eighteen months listed more than a hundred tankers at a time. The ownership graphs behind them, nested shells, re-flagged hulls and recycled managers, say a lot about how shadow fleets layer ownership and where maritime screening goes next.
01 Regulation JUL 28, 2026

EU AMLR countdown: what "obliged entity" will mean for commodity desks

The 2027 rulebook lands harder on trading houses than most expect, starting with who counts as a customer. 5 MIN 02 Product JUL 21, 2026

Continuous monitoring now re-screens on ownership events, not just list updates

A UBO change is a screening event. KYCK now treats it as one, automatically. 3 MIN 03 Sanctions watch JUL 9, 2026

Price-cap enforcement is shifting from flags to insurers

Recent designations target P&I cover, not vessels. What that means for charterers screening fixtures. 4 MIN 04 Company JUN 30, 2026

KYCK in Abu Dhabi: closer to the desks we screen for

A base in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, puts the team in the same working day as most of our maritime and commodities customers. 2 MIN 05 Regulation JUN 17, 2026

FinCEN beneficial ownership rule: the 25% threshold survives

The long-argued cut-off stays. The reporting cadence around it does not. 5 MIN