World-Check - KYC Screening
LSEG World-Check
Access accurate and structured information to help you meet your KYC screening and third-party due diligence obligations. World-Check, used and trusted by the world’s biggest companies for over two decades.
OUR NEW SOLUTION
World-Check On Demand
Real-time risk intelligence. Built for a faster world.
Introducing World-Check On Demand, an API-first solution designed to meet the evolving needs of today’s risk and compliance professionals.
With World-Check On Demand you can access structured, enriched, machine-readable risk intelligence data in real time — giving you a powerful tool for faster onboarding and screening by reducing over screening and enabling faster payments.
Whether you're monitoring for sanctions exposure, politically exposed persons (PEPs), adverse media, or enforcement actions, World-Check On Demand gives you the tools to respond confidently and efficiently — with reduced false positives, improved risk visibility, and better operational outcomes.
No more waiting for updates, access World-Check records as soon as they are created.
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Why choose LSEG World-Check?
Help meet your regulatory obligations, make informed decisions, and prevent your business from being used to launder the proceeds of financial crime or associated with corrupt practices.
For over two decades the World-Check database has been delivering accurate and reliable information to help financial institutions, the regulated non-banking sector and companies to comply with mandatory KYC screening, anti-money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism, anti-bribery and corruption, and associated legislation.
It has hundreds of specialist researchers and analysts across the globe, adhering to the most stringent research guidelines as they collate information from reliable and reputable sources - such as watch lists, government records, and media searches.
Simplify your customer and third-party screening process through state-of-the-art technology combined with human expertise. The World-Check data is fully structured, aggregated, and de-duplicated. It can be easily absorbed into various workflow screening platforms in-house, cloud-based, or third-party solutions through a delivery method that suits your requirements.
Coverage includes:
- Politically exposed persons (PEP), close associates, and family members
- State owned entities and state invested enterprises
- Global sanctions lists
- Narrative and implicit sanctions
- Global regulatory and law enforcement lists
- Adverse media
- Sanctioned securities
Additional specific data sets available include:
- Iran economic interest (IEI)
- UBO
- Vessels information
- Sanction Sets for payment screening
CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
LSEG World-Check One Certification Program
Become part of a growing community of certified professionals. The World-Check One certification programme is designed to equip you with essential skills and knowledge to excel in your role. Through our in-depth educational series, powered by our award-winning World-Check Risk Intelligence data, you’ll gain a deep understanding of key features and extensive risk data coverage of World-Check One.
Features & benefits
What you get with LSEG World-Check
World-Check helps you meet your due diligence obligations and identify potential financial criminal activity with information from reputable public domain sources. Our data will also help you address your Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) monitoring requirements. You can access over 4m records, delivered in a highly structured format.
Reliable intelligence
We follow the most stringent guidelines for research methodology and inclusion criteria – applying rigorous quality control.
Our analysts monitor areas based on their subject matter expertise, supplemented with local language capabilities. Many have worked with state and federal governments.
Up-to-date information
With research centres across five continents, we provide around-the-clock monitoring of sanction lists, regulatory and enforcement lists, as well as thousands of reliable media sources, so you have accurate and up-to-date information.
Data contains hundreds of specific keywords and over 60 risk topics that help you filter and drill down for more focused screening and reduce false positives.
Linking of associated subjects helps you search and identify criminal networks and associations.
Easy integration
With data presented in a highly structured format, it’s simple to absorb into your screening processes using common formats across a variety of software platforms.
Operating at the Speed of Crime: The Case for Real-Time Risk Intelligence
Access insights from 850 global risk leaders on the growing demand for real-time risk intelligence and compliance automation in financial services.
Customer testimonies
What our customers say about us
We partner with LSEG Risk Intelligence to support our market leading compliance program. 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
Using our data
Ways you can use our data
More ways you can use our data
API
Integrate our data, matching capabilities, and advanced functionalities into existing workflows and internal systems – streamlining the screening process for onboarding, Know Your Customer (KYC) screening, and third-party risk due diligence.
Zero Footprint Screening API
A cloud-based customer screening tool, using market-leading World-Check Risk Intelligence, designed specifically for single payments or transactions.
Awards
Check out some of our awards
Chartis Financial Crime and Compliance 50 (FCC50)
Watchlist Data Award 2025
Financial Crime Data Management Award 2025
Partnership Ecosystem Award 2025
Financial Crime Data Management 2024
Partnership Ecosystems 2024
Chartis Research Market Quadrants Report
Name and Transaction Screening Solutions category leader 2024
Adverse Media Monitoring Solutions category leader 2024
RegTech Insight Awards Europe
Best Solution for Sanctions Management 2023
Best Solution for Sanctions Management 2022
Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence
Best PEPs, Sanctions & Name Screening Solution 2023
Best Solutions PEPs, Sanctions & Name Screening 2022
RegTech Insight Awards USA
Best Sanctions and PEPs Solution 2024
Best KYC Data Solution 2022
FinCrimeTech 50
Ranked amongst the 50 most innovative companies in the financial crime and fraud prevention space, 2025
Ranked amongst the 50 most innovative companies in the financial crime and fraud prevention space, 2024
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