Counterparty risk, assessed before the trade
How beSirius assesses every new and renewing counterparty against Gerald Group's own policies, before the relationship moves forward.
The situation
Gerald Group is one of the largest independent metals traders in the world. As an LME-listed brand and a participant in industry frameworks from the OECD, RMI, and the International Tin Association, every new and renewing counterparty has to be screened before the relationship goes ahead. In 2025, Gerald reached 100% screening coverage of all new and renewing counterparties as part of their KYC process.
The problem
There is more public information available about a potential counterparty than a sustainability team can read, structure, and assess against the firm's own policies inside a deal window. Reports, certifications, regulatory filings, corporate disclosures, and third-party data sit in different places, in different formats. Done manually, the work either slows the trade down or weakens the depth of the assessment, and for a trading firm neither outcome is acceptable when counterparty risk sits at the centre of the business.
What beSirius built
beSirius built a Twin of Gerald's own policies and standards. The Twin is the reference point for every counterparty entering the KYC process.
The system reads the publicly available information on each counterparty, structures it, and matches it against the requirements in Gerald's policies. It produces an assessment that shows where the counterparty's evidence matches Gerald's standards and where it does not. The sustainability team reviews each output, applies their own judgement, and makes the final call. Counterparties that have been through the process become part of a structured repository the team can return to as relationships evolve.
beSirius runs the first pass against Gerald's standards and surfaces what matches and what does not. Gerald's sustainability team makes every final decision.
The same approach powers our supply chain due diligence solution for mining, metals, and trading teams.
In Gerald's words"Their model creates a 'sustainability twin' of Gerald's policies and examines publicly available information and documentation provided by the counterparty to assess whether their performance aligns with our standards. The system saves time by highlighting relevant information and providing a comprehensive data repository of counterparties that have undergone a sustainability evaluation. It then generates evaluations and judgments that are ultimately reviewed by the sustainability team for a final decision."
Gerald Group, 2025 Sustainability Report
What this demonstrates about beSirius
A Twin can hold more than a company's own data. It can hold a company's policies, risk thresholds, and standards, then assess any third party against them. The customer's team stays in control of every decision. beSirius does the structuring, matching, and surfacing work that takes a small team longer than a deal window allows.
The work described in Gerald's 2025 report has continued, with counterparty assessments now running as part of the firm's standing KYC process.
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