How to monitor a portfolio of companies for regulatory risk

Step-by-step setup for surveilling every regulatory event (SEC, FDA, courts, contracts, enforcement) for a portfolio of companies, in one request per company.

Steps

1. Build your watchlist by ticker

   Maintain your list of tickers, CIKs, UEIs, or entity_ids — whatever you have. The /entity/{key} endpoint accepts any of them and joins via the entity_master bridge table.

2. Pull cross-vertical material events per ticker

   For each ticker:

   GET /api/v1/entity/{ticker}/material-events?days=7

   Returns only events with importance ≥ 60 in the last 7 days. Typical signals:

   • Class I FDA recall — importance 100
   • Phase 3 trial termination — 80
   • Antitrust court filing — 75
   • DOJ press release — 60-90
   • Large insider sell — varies by USD
   • Federal Reserve C&D order — 90

   Try: /api/v1/entity/PFE/material-events?days=7

3. Alert on threshold breaches

   Page on:

   • Any event with importance ≥ 80
   • Any new OFAC / SAM / OIG hit (run /api/v1/screening/all?ticker=… weekly)

   Each event includes an accession_number — track which you've seen to dedupe.

4. Cross-reference today's hub

   Independent of your watchlist, use /today.json for an on-request, UTC source-date-bounded digest aggregating:

   • CISA KEVs · NHTSA park-it recalls · Class I FDA recalls
   • High-signal court filings (Securities/Patent/Antitrust)
   • DOJ press releases · OFAC additions
   • Largest insider sells

   The response publishes its generation time and window. Check /api/v1/freshness before treating absence as proof that no event occurred. HTML view: /today.