Commodity market compliance solution

Kpler's Risk & Compliance is an international trade risk assessment and management solution built on market-leading cargo and real-time ship tracking data, covering 40+ commodities and processing over 1 billion AIS signals daily.

Maritime Risk & Compliance refers to the ability to identify, assess, and monitor regulatory, sanctions, and operational risks related to vessels, fleets, ports, and maritime activity. This includes detecting suspicious behaviour, ensuring adherence to international regulations, and reducing exposure to financial, legal, and reputational risk.

Maritime industry professionals use Kpler Risk & Compliance to screen vessels, monitor compliance, assess investment risks, and make informed trading decisions across:
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• Financial institutions (banks, insurers, trade finance)
• Commodity traders and charterers
• Ship owners and operators
• Compliance, legal, and risk teams
• Government and regulatory stakeholders

Risk & Compliance capabilities support monitoring of:

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• Sanctions and sanctioned vessel activity
• Shadow fleet operations
• AIS spoofing and manipulation
• Flag risk and flag hopping
• Port State Control and compliance-related vessel behaviour

Kpler provides daily updates on sanctioned vessels and entities from major authorities including OFAC, OFSI, and the EU, with direct access to consolidated sanctions lists.

Kpler leverages the world's largest AIS network to detect AIS gaps, spoofing, suspicious ship-to-ship transfers, port calls in sanctioned countries, and deviations from usual trade lanes with minimal false positives.

Kpler enables you to verify vessels with recognised classification societies, review ISM managers, check Protection & Indemnity insurance coverage, access Port State Control inspection results, and uncover complex ownership layers.

Yes, Kpler provides over two years of historical sanctions and risk data dating back to January 1, 2022, enabling informed decision-making and strategic forecasting.

Kpler identifies vessels flying flags that haven't ratified key IMO safety and pollution conventions or ILO seafarer welfare conventions, flags of convenience, and flags greylisted or blacklisted by Port State Control or targeted by the USCG.

Kpler monitors sanctioned cargo movements and trades across over 40 commodities to provide comprehensive oversight and protect your business from potential risks.

Kpler Risk & Compliance solutions provide data, analytics, and insights that help organisations:

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• Detect high-risk vessels and behaviours early
• Perform enhanced due diligence on counterparties
• Support KYC, AML, and sanctions screening workflows
• Document and evidence compliance decisions

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This enables teams to move from reactive checks to proactive risk management.

AIS data is used to identify abnormal or deceptive vessel behaviour, such as signal gaps, spoofing, or unusual movement patterns. When combined with analytics and contextual insight, AIS data helps surface potential compliance risks that may not be visible through static checks alone.

Kpler Risk & Compliance combines data with analysis and insights. This includes written research, infographics, and explanatory content designed to help users understand what is happening, why it matters, and how it affects compliance decisions.

Common Risk & Compliance resources include:

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• Whitepapers on emerging compliance risks (e.g. AIS spoofing)
• Webinars and expert briefings
• Infographics highlighting key trends (e.g. sanctions and shadow fleet activity)
• News and analysis aligned to regulatory developments

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These resources are designed to support both education and decision-making.

Yes. Risk & Compliance outputs are often used to support internal compliance reviews, senior management reporting, and discussions with regulators or partners, depending on the organisation’s policies.

Most organisations begin by:

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• Identifying priority risk areas (e.g. sanctions exposure, fleet monitoring)
• Reviewing historical and live vessel behaviour
• Integrating Risk & Compliance insights into existing compliance workflows

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Over time, Risk & Compliance becomes part of ongoing monitoring rather than one-off checks.

Yes. Kpler Risk & Compliance is used both for continuous risk monitoring and for deeper investigation when specific vessels, voyages, or counterparties need closer scrutiny.