FTO & DTO Risk Intelligence

Expose hidden cartel, FTO, and DTO exposure across your network

Organizations face significant legal, financial, and reputational risk when directly or indirectly connected to cartels designated as FTOs, SDGT, or DTOs. Sigma360 combines curated fentanyl supply-chain intelligence, expert-led screening, and DEA-led advisory to surface exposure routine tools miss.

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Expose your hidden threats with Sigma360

Using proprietary data analytics, Sigma360 has identified additional cartel-linked entities and networks, helping firms stay ahead of regulatory expectations.

30K+

Direct and indirect cartel-linked connections identified

100K+

Additional entities at higher risk of exposure

Precursor

Chemical companies linked to illicit fentanyl production

As President Trump has made clear, cartels are terrorist groups, and this Department of Justice is devoted to destroying cartels and transnational gangs.

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Unmatched visibility into cartel-related risk

Corporate Registry & Business Formation Data

Reveals complex ownership structures, shell entities, and front companies that obscure true affiliations.
Enhanced Watchlist & Screening Data

Captures official global designations, then expands them with network mapping and contextual updates.
Adverse Media & Investigative Reporting

Surfaces red flags from open-source intelligence, news, and court filings that aren’t reflected in traditional lists.
Proprietary Cartel Threat Intelligence

Behavioral models and expert-built indicators that uncover hidden cartel affiliations and FTO exposure.

Why Traditional Screening Falls Short

Traditional screening tools are a required baseline, but they were not built to detect the complexity of FTO/DTO-linked risk. Most systems rely on basic lists of names downloaded from regulatory bodies, leaving firms blind to key exposure points.

Legacy approaches do not fully integrate sanctions, adverse media, PEP data, corporate registries, and other critical reporting sources into a holistic, persistent view of direct and indirect risk.

What legacy tools miss

Shell structures and layered ownership used to obscure control
Alias networks cartels use to hide operations
Indirect exposure through intermediaries and opaque supply chains
Disconnected sanctions, adverse media, PEP, and registry data
Precursor chemical companies linked to illicit fentanyl production

Risk Amplifiers for Financial Institutions and Corporates

Cross-border services

Cross-border financial activity increases the risk of cartel-related exposure, especially to and from foreign jurisdictions.

Trade finance

Complex trade and trade finance arrangements present risk for disguising illicit financing activity.

Operational proximity

Significant operational activity or payment flows to higher-risk jurisdictions, including Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Panama.

Indirect cartel-related exposure

Services provided to third-party intermediaries and work with opaque supply chains may present hidden risk.

High-risk industries

Exposure to energy, oil and gas, logistics, recreation, and agriculture presents elevated cartel-related risk.

Persistent, holistic view

Sigma360 integrates these signals into one data-centric view of direct and indirect risk, at scale, ahead of the headlines.

Strengthen Fentanyl-related Risk Management

360 Fentanyl Risk Intelligence

Arm your team with curated, hard-to-access intelligence from global and U.S. government sources, investigative reporting, and law enforcement tradecraft, without adding analyst headcount or juggling vendors.

Curated fentanyl supply-chain intelligence
Trusted legal and government intelligence
Flexible delivery and update cadence
Risk screening and alert triage
False positive reduction
Governance-aligned documentation
Transaction-level risk management
Expert analysis and strategic advisory

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360 Enhance Screening Services

Tap into an expert-led screening solution that surfaces hidden risk across your customer, vendor, or partner network. We securely process your data, triage results, and escalate higher-risk findings with governance-aligned documentation.

Curated fentanyl supply-chain intelligence
Trusted legal and government intelligence
Flexible delivery and update cadence
Risk screening and alert triage
False positive reduction
Governance-aligned documentation
Transaction-level risk management
Expert analysis and strategic advisory

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360 Advisory and Technical Services

Combine Sigma360’s intelligence, technology, and senior advisory expertise for a full-spectrum solution. Led by former DEA officials and supported by investigative analysts, delivered project-based or ongoing.

Curated fentanyl supply-chain intelligence
Trusted legal and government intelligence
Flexible delivery and update cadence
Risk screening and alert triage
False positive reduction
Governance-aligned documentation
Transaction-level risk management
Expert analysis and strategic advisory

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Trusted Worldwide

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"What used to be a manual, time-consuming process is now seamless. Sigma360 eliminated the friction in our KYC onboarding for trade repositories, adapting quickly to our regulatory needs across multiple jurisdictions. The customer success team has been responsive and hands-on from day one, and that made a huge difference."

Wouter Sliedrecht

President at KOR

"When you’re scaling globally, your compliance infrastructure has to scale with you... We needed more than a vendor. We needed a trusted partner... Sigma360 brings unique risk intelligence data that isn’t available through traditional screening providers, advanced AI capabilities, along with broader risk intelligence solutions that help us manage risk more proactively as we continue to scale globally... The result is a sanctions program that’s faster, more accurate, data-driven and built for where Rippling is going."

JT DeNicola

Global Head of Sanctions at Rippling

"We've been highly satisfied with Sigma360. The platform is user-friendly and delivers accurate, timely screening results that streamline our due diligence. Their monitoring capabilities strengthened our confidence in maintaining regulatory compliance, and the integration process was seamless. Their team was very attentive and guided us every step of the way to ensure the platform aligned with our policy requirements."

Yolanda Torres

Senior Director at Fitch Ratings

"Sigma360 has been pivotal in our international expansion. Their solution is robust yet digestible, and their expert team is knowledgeable and supportive of all requests - big and small."

Elly Aiala

Chief Compliance Officer at Boost Payment Solutions

"We appreciate having the service and the peace of mind that comes from having greater awareness of what we're doing. While we're not a multinational bank, we have plenty of clients with interesting and unique organizing principles. We appreciate having the tools that Sigma offers to give us more insight into who we're engaging with."

Vadim Beleckis

Head of US Operations, Topcashback

"Sigma360 has enabled us to expand into new markets with confidence. The platform's continuous monitoring gives us real peace of mind, while its extensive, globally-sourced database, including archived articles, serves as a true single-point due diligence tool. The intuitive interface makes background checks fast and efficient, allowing us to issue quotations to new customers quickly."

Stanimir Gantchev

Chief Executive Officer at Solatrix Ltd.

"Sigma360’s category leader placing in both of Chartis’ Watchlist and Adverse Media Monitoring quadrants reflects several factors. Alongside robust continuous screening capabilities, Sigma360 offers strong global risk data, while its configurable alerting and independently validated AI models were also considered differentiators."

Phil Mackenzie

Senior Research Specialist at Chartis Research

"Sigma360’s model demonstrated superior performance in our validation process, against the incumbent provider. We’re pleased to collaborate in supporting their clients with continued testing, tuning, and model validation assurance."

Jose Caldera

CEO at Yanez Compliance

"We appreciate having the service and the peace of mind that comes from having greater awareness of what we're doing. While we're not a multinational bank, we have plenty of clients with interesting and unique organizing principles. We appreciate having the tools that Sigma offers to give us more insight into who we're engaging with."

Top Logistics Company

"Sigma360’s data depth enables investigators to surface linked entities and verify connections not easily available elsewhere."

Top Payments Firm

“Sigma360 has been a very useful tool, particularly for the network function, which has helped us navigate the changes in our business due to the tariff situation.”

Leading E-Commerce Firm

“Entity Summary helps me tremendously. It gives me a snapshot of what an entity's risk situation and associations are. Before this, I was doing my own summarization, but now the tool saves me significant amounts of time.”

Luis García

Managing Partner at a major international law firm

Frequently Asked Questions

What are FTOs, SDGTs, and DTOs?

Isn’t standard sanctions screening enough?

Routine screening is a required baseline, but government and legal guidance indicate it may not be sufficient on its own. Most tools rely on lists of names and miss shell structures, layered ownership, and alias networks. Sigma360 adds dynamic external data and network analytics on top of your existing controls.

How does Sigma360 identify indirect exposure?

Sigma360 integrates sanctions, adverse media, PEP data, corporate registries, and other critical reporting sources into a holistic, persistent view. This surfaces indirect connections through intermediaries, opaque supply chains, and precursor chemical companies that fragmented tools leave hidden.

Which offering is right for my team?

Teams that want to strengthen internal detection choose 360 Fentanyl Risk Intelligence. Resource-constrained teams that want screening and triage handled choose 360 Enhanced Screening Services. Firms facing heightened exposure or complexity choose 360 Advisory & Technical Services, a full-spectrum engagement led by former DEA officials.

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