About World-Check |
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Coverage includes money launderers, fraudsters, terrorists and sanctioned entities, plus individuals and businesses from over a dozen other high risk categories. In addition the database also tracks Politicall Exposed Persons (PEPs). World-Check's proprietary database and tools have direct uses in financial compliance, anti-money laundering (AML), Know-Your-Customer (KYC), Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) screening, enhanced due diligence (EDD), fraud prevention, government intelligence and enforcement, and other identity authentication, background screening and risk-prevention practices. In addition to the financial industry other client sectors include, insurance, legal, gaming, aviation, real estate, consultancy, natural resources and accounting to name but a few. Moreover, World-Check is a useful and recognised solution for pre-employment/background screening regardless of the industry concerned. How is World-Check’s intelligence gathered? World-Check correlates unstructured data in order to provide highly structured intelligence that users can quickly and easily access to protect themselves from potential risk. For this task, teams of multi-lingual researchers and editors located around the world, methodically monitor and check hundreds of thousands of public sources including government, sanction and police sites as well as the national and international media. This open source information is correlated into highly structured profiles on terrorists, fraudsters, narcotics traffickers, shell banks, organised crime, sanctioned entities, plus many other categories that pose a lesser risk but are equally of interest. Profiles are linked revealing relationship networks between family members, middlemen and associates - where the real risk often lies. World-Check also leverages its proprietary network of users via their ability to submit, anonymously, names and details of suspicious parties they themselves have identified – for World-Check researchers to investigate and then add, as appropriate, to its master database. This unique “network effect” enables member client institutions to benefit from the investigative results derived from such reported names, driving powerful user synergies across World-Check’s distribution. About World-Check's Terrorism and Insurgency Research Unit (TIRU) World-Check’s specialist Terrorism and Insurgency Research Unit (TIRU) sets the global benchmark for terror-focused risk intelligence, monitoring and continually expanding a database of more than 31,000 terrorism-related profiles. TIRU traces the financing trends of specific terrorist organisations, and constantly maps their financial interactions and the relationships between overlapping trans-national criminal networks. In terms of terrorism-related content, World-Check’s intelligence outweighs the collective knowledge base of the four most authoritative government sanctions issuing bodies in the world. In May 2007 the combined terrorism content of OFAC, HM Treasury, EU and the UN amounted to only 5% of World-Check's terrorism content. In May 2008, the combined 918 individual profiles listed by those authorities constituted a mere 3.2% of World-Check's 28 190 individual profiles. How can I access World-Check? World-Check can be accessed through two annual subscription models: The Online service is an Internet based solution available from any pc worldwide. Updated in real-time, its quick search functionalities allows the user to enter different search criteria to instantly check whether an individual or entity carries any potential risk. The search results can be printed, emailed or saved electronically as proof of due diligence. Annual subscription allows for unlimited access, look-ups, printouts and suspicious name reporting. The Online service has the added benefit of providing subscribers access to Passport-Check, a cutting edge solution that verifies the authenticity of “machine readable” passports, thereby both confirming the identity of customers whilst screening them against the World-Check database in seconds. The integration of Name-Checking and ID-Document Checking into one process provides both commercial and government clients with a unique solution to match the stringent international know-your-customer due diligence obligations. Also included in the online offering is World-Check’s purpose-built visualization tool or ‘Graphic Display’ functionality which produces “on-the-fly” mapping of complex relationships enabling more efficient investigation of non-obvious second and third degree relationships. The Data-File (flat file) is delivered in multiple formats (CSV or XML) and can be loaded into various software applications for screening against a broad array of customer and transactional data for comprehensive filtering. In this way sensitive customer information can be checked regularly and in-house for maximum data security and confidentiality. Additionally, World-Check’s Data-File allows for “dynamic downloads”, which enables clients to perform data-sliced requests, thereby downloading data subsets relevant for specific internal purposes. World-Check’s Data-File is updated twice daily to ensure our customers have access to the latest information. Annual subscription allows for unlimited downloads * Our filter is only suitable for very small institutions. Enhanced Due Diligence Reporting Security Policy World-Check’s foremost priority is privacy and security. We use 128 bit encryption of the link between our servers and our client’s servers. Our confidentiality guarantees your anonymity; there is no monitoring, no audit trail and no record kept of any search undertaken. World-Check’s anonymity policy is regularly audited by KPMG. No other service offers this degree of security. For more information This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it The Data Controller is Global Objectives Ltd, 159-165 Great Portland Street, London, United Kingdom (registered office). World-Check compiles public information from open sources via the internet. This information is correlated to provide the financial industry and other entities with a 'Know Your Customer' solution, in order to comply with legal requirements. World-Check as such, is used in the prevention and detection of crime and to reduce financial, reputation and regulatory/compliance risk. If you are contacting us in the belief that World-Check holds public information about you and you wish to make a request under the Data Protection Act to view this information, please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .We realise that not all public information is accurate. We welcome requests under the Data Protection Act to review data correlated so as to ensure our policy of being fair and just is adhered to. |
Trusted by more than 3 000 institutions in 162 countries, including over 90% of the world’s largest banks, World-Check offers an end-to-end solution for assessing, managing and remediating financial, regulatory and reputational risks.
