INTRODUCTION 

Global Legislation, Compliance and Regulations designed to combat Money Laundering, Corruption and Bribery are impacting on numerous industries other than Banking and Insurance.  The financial and reputational damage involved in failing to comply with these laws and regulations is huge and underlines the importance of companies needing to implement effective risk-based due diligence procedures in order to prove they were taking appropriate preventative measures.

We are a global service provider of Corporate Intelligence and Risk Mitigation products & services.  Through strategic partnerships we have positioned ourselves within a global heritage that extends back for over a hundred years, making functional use of the worlds most experienced and leading providers of data based business intelligence.  This allows us to offer our clients access to complex, multiple databases of relevant and current information on both consumers and businesses.

Through the gathering and intelligent analysis of data from these databases and the harnessing of technological advancements, we offer developed risk management tools, services and solutions that allow our clients to make objective and effective business decisions, minimising risk and maximising growth opportunities.

We offer our clients the ability to meet these requirements, providing them with the data they need to make better decisions with:

FRAUD PREVENTION & FINANCIAL RISK

MEETING REGULATORY & COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS

INCREASED BUSINESS EFFICIENCY

PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF THEIR ORGANIZATION

RECORDS UTILIZED ARE UPDATED ON A DAILY BASIS

SELECTIVE BUSINESS MONITORING SERVICES

INTERNATIONAL DILIGENCE REPORTING

Company Information  

Verify a corporate entity and find out more about its business and management structure. Access over 150 databases of premium business information and millions of public and private company profiles covering developed and emerging markets.

Sanctions, PEPs & Watch Lists 

Ensure your organization doesn’t work with a blacklisted company and put you at risk of costly fines and sanctions.  Screen all the key international sanctions and watch lists including UN, OFAC, HM Treasury, FBI and 800,000 plus Politically Exposed People (PEP) lists.

Global News Archive

Minimize reputational risk to your business by checking against over 23,000 news sources from international, national & regional newspapers, blogs and newswires.  With an archive going back over 35 years, ensure you don’t miss valuable information that is not available on the web.

Legal History

The international cases data helps users to determine how litigious an individual or company may be.  Coverage includes data from the UK, EU, US and selected Asian jurisdictions. For example from the UK this includes; All England Law Reports, ICLR Law Reports and reported cases from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Technology

At the core of our proven capability to provide data based intelligence is a robust and scalable technology infrastructure that ensures that the required hardware is state-of-the-art, scalable and capable of accommodating ever growing capacity needs.  The software and systems we utilize are continuously being maintained, upgraded and optimised.

The systems are run on the largest and most advanced mainframe facilities in Africa which are housed in the same data centre used by other leading, security and data-sensitive operations such as the stock exchanges.  Here, data uploads are executed using advanced robotics and minimal human intervention, more than 30,000,000 lines of data are captured, validated, stored and secured on a monthly basis.