Andrew Share
Every new customer or third party has the potential to introduce new risk to your business. Hidden links – even inadvertent – to sanctioned or high-risk individuals or entities can quickly become costly, with possible operational, financial and reputational consequences.
Risk beyond the numbers
Against a global backdrop of heightened regulatory and reputational risk, staying on the right side of an evolving compliance curve is essential, and a large part of this includes fully assessing every prospective partner to understand their unique risk profile.
Before engaging with a new customer or third party, companies need to understand the potential, often hidden, risk they bring to the table, but risk is dynamic and extends far beyond straightforward financial metrics.
You need a deep understanding of potential exposure to global sanctions and sanctioned individuals, politically exposed persons (PEPs), and those listed by law enforcement agencies or featured in adverse media. The fallout from non-compliance can be far reaching. Regulatory breaches can lead to financial penalties and often substantial reputational damage.
Whether you are a mid-market business or a large enterprise, and whether you operate across borders or domestically, the right data can help you uncover complex ownership structures, map exposures and understand hidden relationships, so you can build a holistic picture of risk.
A single problematic business relationship can be costly, in terms of cash flow, fines and reputation.
Trusted data, real-world insights
In an evolving risk landscape, keeping abreast of actual and emerging risk is essential, and trusted data can deliver the real-world insights needed to achieve this.
Financial crime poses a growing risk to every company. It can arise in either the supply or sales channel, but the right data can help you mitigate the challenge of identifying problems early in the game, and before engaging with any high-risk party.
Screening is your first line of defence, and is essential for compliance with global regulations, from KYC and AML requirements to counter-terrorist financing, sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption regulations.
Screening in turn relies on trusted data, which must be structured and high-quality to enable the efficient screening of clients, transactions, suppliers, agents, intermediaries, vessels, UBOs, and more.
Moreover, the data you choose must deliver real-world insights into both individuals and entities, as either can introduce heightened risk.
The right data helps mitigate challenges by enabling a robust third-party risk process.
Robust, but agile
One of the fundamental rules of due diligence today is that it must combine a robust approach with speed, efficiency and agility.
On-the-ground business dynamics dictate that risk management processes must be effective, but also smooth and able to accelerate onboarding without ever slowing the pace of business.
Combining compliance screening with deep credit insights results in stronger due diligence, reduced risk and faster, more confident decisions.
The end goal is seamless, end-to-end risk management, ideally where you manage all aspects, from financial analysis and credit opinions to compliance checks, in one place.
When you are able to access a single, actionable view across use cases – including onboarding, supplier selection and payment controls – there is a real opportunity to save time, lower overall risk and inform better decisions.
Read more about how you can access world-class compliance screening tools and trusted credit risk data, all within a single interface.
Find out more about the role of trusted data in holistic risk management.
Coface and LSEG Risk Intelligence have partnered to combine leading scoring and trade opinions with structured sanctions/PEP and ownership data. This delivers a single, actionable view for real use cases from initial onboarding to supplier selection and payment controls.
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