Real‑time screening for payments, onboarding and KYC
World‑Check Verify is LSEG’s cloud‑native screening API that helps organisations perform real‑time, embedded checks within digital onboarding and payment journeys. Designed for low latency and straightforward integration, it uses trusted World‑Check data to support confident, compliant decision‑making.
World‑Check Verify supports a broad range of evolving regulatory requirements and helps teams reduce friction while maintaining robust screening standards. By embedding structured risk intelligence directly into your workflows, it enables faster assessments and helps create more streamlined customer experiences.
LSEG and AWS: stronger together
Developed in partnership with AWS, the service is built on a secure, scalable architecture that offers high availability and in‑region hosting for modern digital platforms, neobanks and high‑volume payment environments.
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Features and benefits
What you get with World‑Check Verify
Access sanctions, law‑enforcement, regulatory, adverse media, PEP and SOE data curated under strict inclusion guidelines aligned with AML, KYC, CTF and ABAC requirements.
Advanced matching capabilities and configurable screening rules help reduce false positives, shorten resolution times and minimise manual review workload.
A privacy‑first, stateless API that does not store customer PII, enabling secure, fast screening embedded directly into onboarding and payment flows.
Delivered on secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure to provide high availability, enterprise‑grade resilience and in‑region data hosting for data sovereignty.
World‑Check Verify integrates smoothly into modern automated and agentic screening flows, supporting faster, more intelligent decisioning.
Seamless integration that grows with you
A lightweight, cloud‑native API that integrates smoothly into existing systems, supports modular adoption and scales with your onboarding or payment volumes.
ADVANTAGES
Why World-Check Verify is the trusted choice
Make better risk decisions from the start
Rely on structured, curated World‑Check data including sanctions, law enforcement, regulatory actions, adverse media, PEP/RCA and SOE intelligence, to identify higher‑risk profiles early to support robust compliance.
Keep customers moving with real‑time, low‑latency screening
A cloud‑native, stateless API returns instant results inside onboarding and payment flows, helping organisations reduce friction and maintain fast, seamless customer journeys.
Protect sensitive data with zero‑retention design
World-Check Verify does not store customer PII, supporting strong privacy protection, simplifying integration into secure environments and reducing regulatory exposure.
Confidently scale across markets and volumes
Co‑developed with AWS to provide high availability, enterprise‑grade resilience and in‑region hosting options, helping teams meet data sovereignty expectations and support global operations.
Reduce operational noise and focus on true risk
Advanced matching and configurable screening rules help cut false positives, reduce manual reviews and improve case resolution times, enabling teams to focus effort where it matters most.
Deploy quickly and integrate without disruption
A lightweight, cloud‑native API fits smoothly into existing systems and digital platforms, supporting high‑volume onboarding, payments and neobank architectures without heavy engineering lift.
Use Cases
Where real-time screening matters most
World‑Check Verify supports high‑velocity, embedded compliance checks across the full customer and transaction lifecycle. These overarching use cases reflect the key moments where instant screening reduces friction and enables confident decision‑making.
Instantly screen individuals and entities during account creation or customer sign‑up — maintaining a fast, seamless onboarding experience.
Screen high‑volume, real‑time payment flows to identify sanctioned or higher‑risk parties, keeping transactions secure and uninterrupted.
Embed real‑time checks across customers, suppliers, partners and other third parties to support evolving AML, KYC, CTF and ABAC requirements — without slowing business processes.
Meet local and international regulatory obligations through a cloud‑native stateless solution designed to keep pace with changing laws, privacy requirements and market regulations.
Risk intelligence data sets available
World‑Check Verify is powered by LSEG’s trusted risk intelligence data. In addition to the core World‑Check data categories used within World-Check Verify, organisations can extend their screening and due‑diligence workflows with access to additional specialised datasets across the LSEG Risk Intelligence suite, including:
Core World‑Check screening categories
- Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), Relatives & Close Associates (RCAs)
- State‑owned and state‑invested enterprises (SOEs / SIEs)
- Global sanctions lists
- Narrative and implicit sanctions
- Global regulatory and law‑enforcement lists
- Adverse media
- Identity Check
Additional specialised data sets available across LSEG Risk Intelligence
- Iran Economic Interest (IEI)
- Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO) data
- Vessels information
- Sanctioned securities
Customer testimonials
What our customers say about us
World-Check is confident in who they are, what they do, how they deliver and how they show up. And that confidence gives us peace and clarity.
First National Bank South Africa
We love World-Check because it covers a broad spectrum of watch lists. The technology, like bulk screening and ongoing screening, really assists us in a way that means we don't have to allocate resources to do these functions manually.
DMA
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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