What is World-Check?
World-Check is a risk intelligence database that supports Know Your Customer (KYC), anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions and third-party due diligence screening. It brings together structured records from reputable public-domain sources to help organisations identify potential risk and decide when further scrutiny may be appropriate.
World-Check records can include sanctions, law and regulatory enforcement, politically exposed persons (PEPs), relatives and close associates, state-owned or state-invested enterprises, and relevant adverse media. Inclusion in World-Check does not mean that a person or organisation poses a risk. Customers review possible matches and make their own decisions.
World-Check data is available through purpose-built screening software, APIs and selected integrated solutions, helping organisations use a consistent source of risk intelligence across different workflows.
Introducing Active Intelligence
Powering the next generation of World-Check
Active Intelligence is the AI-enabled data and technology capability now powering World-Check. It brings together advances in data, intelligent matching and continuous learning to help organisations reduce manual screening work, prioritise the matches that matter and onboard customers faster.
By continuously sourcing, curating and enriching intelligence at scale, Active Intelligence strengthens the data behind World-Check and helps compliance teams focus on the risks that matter most. Throughout the process, expert human oversight remains central.
Better data. Smarter matching. Screening you can defend.
Features & benefits
What you get with World-Check
Relevant risk intelligence
Bring together structured information from sanctions, enforcement, PEP and adverse media sources to support customer and third-party screening.
Use detailed records, identifiers and source information to assess possible matches and determine whether further scrutiny is appropriate.
Apply World-Check data at onboarding, during periodic or ongoing review, and within selected payment and transaction-screening journeys.
Draw on research conducted using defined criteria and reputable public-domain sources, with distinctions maintained between allegations, investigations, charges and convictions.
Choose screening software, data APIs or embedded screening according to the workflow, integration and operating model required.
Connect World-Check data and screening capabilities with existing systems through available APIs and integrated applications.
Which World-Check product do you need?
Start with the way your organisation needs to access and use World-Check data. Each option supports a different screening experience.
Coverage and evidence
World-Check combines structured public-domain risk intelligence with research and supporting source information. Coverage is designed to help screening teams identify possible matches, understand context and focus review where further scrutiny may be appropriate.
Records
Consolidated records for individuals and organisations, with relevant identifiers and source references.
Countries and territories
Research spanning international, national and local sources across multiple jurisdictions.
Risk topics
Coverage that includes sanctions, PEPs, law and regulatory enforcement, and relevant adverse media.
Research standards
Defined inclusion criteria, objective research processes and quality controls support consistent record creation and maintenance.
Who uses World-Check?
Organisations need to make confident decisions about who they do business with, whether they are onboarding customers, assessing third parties or reviewing transactions. World-Check helps compliance, risk and due diligence teams access trusted risk intelligence that supports informed decision-making, more efficient screening and a consistent approach to identifying potential financial crime, regulatory and reputational risk. Available through software, APIs and embedded solutions, World-Check can support a wide range of compliance and screening workflows across regulated industries.
Use Cases
Customer onboarding
World-Check supports customer onboarding by helping organisations screen individuals and organisations against relevant sanctions, enforcement, PEP and adverse media records. Teams can review possible matches through World-Check One, integrate structured data through World-Check On Demand, or embed real-time screening through World-Check Verify, depending on their workflow and operating model.
Third-party risk management
Managing risk extends beyond customers. Organisations often need to assess suppliers, distributors, agents, intermediaries, joint venture partners and other third parties before and throughout a business relationship. World-Check helps teams identify potential sanctions, corruption, regulatory, financial crime and reputational concerns through structured risk intelligence. Screening supports a risk-based approach to third-party due diligence and helps focus resources on relationships that may require additional review or enhanced scrutiny.
Real-time payment screening
World-Check can make relevant risk intelligence available within selected payment and transaction-screening workflows, helping organisations identify sanctions exposure and other potential risk indicators for review. Embedded, low-latency delivery can support responsive payment journeys while organisations retain responsibility for their screening policies, review and transaction decisions.
Ongoing monitoring and periodic review
Risk does not remain static after onboarding. Customer and third-party circumstances may change as sanctions are updated, enforcement actions emerge or new adverse media becomes available. World-Check supports ongoing monitoring and periodic review by helping organisations identify changes that may warrant reassessment. This enables compliance and risk teams to maintain oversight throughout the customer lifecycle and respond more efficiently to evolving risk landscapes.
API-driven compliance and screening programmes
Many organisations already operate their own compliance platforms and require structured risk intelligence that integrates directly into existing systems. World-Check On Demand provides access to World-Check data through APIs, enabling organisations to build screening into onboarding, monitoring and transaction workflows while maintaining control over their technology environment. Rich metadata and structured records support more targeted screening, improved operational efficiency and greater flexibility across large-scale compliance programmes.
Enhanced due diligence
Some customers, counterparties or transactions require more detailed review because of their risk characteristics, jurisdiction, ownership structure or business activity. World-Check provides structured intelligence and supporting source information that can form part of a broader enhanced due diligence process. This helps organisations develop a more complete understanding of potential risk indicators, relationships and relevant context before proceeding with business decisions.
Customer testimonials
What customers say about World-Check
We partner with LSEG Risk Intelligence to support our market leading compliance programme. Integrating World-Check, a respected industry solution in both tradfi and Web3, keeps us at the compliance forefront and positioned for business success.
BitMex
LSEG World-Check’s advanced screening tools help to safeguard our business and ensure a responsible gaming environment for our guests and the community. It's an essential tool that helps us to maintain the highest standards of compliance across our industry.
Crown Resorts
Data and technology are at the core of our services and LSEG World-Check plays a key role in helping our teams to comply with regulation and with our high standards of governance.
CAMS - Computer Age Management Services Ltd
A clear understanding of risks surrounding business activities is crucial for any organization to create sustainable stakeholder value in executing its strategies. LSEG World-Check has been crucial for our teams to reinforce the overall strategy of the organization with a prudent risk management framework
Philippine National Bank
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