25 Years of World-Check

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Our Trusted Data Conversation series brings you key insights into risk and compliance trends as told by our customers. Tune in to discover more.

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About this series

For 25 years, World-Check has been empowering organisations worldwide to fight financial crime through trusted, high-quality data. As we mark this milestone, we continue to innovate. Combining global intelligence and human expertise with the latest technology, we help our customers uncover hidden risks to financial systems and help protect the people behind the statistics. To showcase how using data for good can help you manage risk with confidence, we invite you to hear from our valued customers.

Customer videos

As we celebrate 25 years of World-Check, we invite you to hear from our customers

Evita Situma

Head of Compliance, Financial Crime: Commercial Banking, First National Bank South Africa

As a head of compliance at one of South Africa’s largest banks, Evita Situma needs to connect the dots by analysing internal and external data sources, forming a clear picture of what’s really happening in relation to financial crime. In this video, she shares how World-Check has been helping her ensure better decision-making. She talks about the importance of strong collaboration between banks and data providers, emphasizing the critical role of partnership, responsiveness and trust.

My name is Evita Situma. I work at First National Bankas the Head of Compliance in Financial Crimefor the commercial banking segment. What keeps me passionate about my jobis being able to pull the threads and the story togetherfrom examining data information sources, both internal and external,and forming a picture of what's happening in financial crime.The nature of preventing money laundering is that money launderers want to concealwhat they're doing with the money, where they obtained it,and for what purpose they're using it. I like the challengeof being able to take stuff that seems random,pulling it together, and creating that pictureand saying that this is what the risk is, how do we deal with it,and how do we solve for it? That's my passion.The big challenge is always going to be about databecause, as tech evolves, information moves very quickly,and data challenges mean data integrity quality.How reliable are your sources of data? Is it purely what you know internallyabout your client or your product, versus what you might see externally,and how that informs whether you're going to tolerate the risksor terminate the risks? Those challenges are always difficultconversations because they evolve daily, if it's not hourly,because the risks change at the rate of a tick,the way we move these days. The World-Check has been the best friendI didn't know I needed throughout my time in AML.I've known it from the days of Thomson Reuters.It's been very helpful in the sense that even when we arenot necessarily 100 percent sure we've got it right,this is a conversation that can be had. We can collaborate and say that we thinkthis is the right thing that we're looking at,or no, we're not looking at the right thing.I appreciate the way they support business,and the way they support their clients in making surethat when they say that they can identify a riskand help you mitigate it, they mean what they say, and they show up.I think it's an age-old adage. I think what most AML people talk aboutis mapping of networks, network analytics, relationship management, et cetera,and joining patterns. That is such a great opportunityto leverage, and thankfully, AI is a blessingand a curse in that sense. However, from where the World-Checkand LSEG are and where you guys are heading,I'm excited to see what's going to come out.A lot of the developments are being developedin collaboration with us as clients, and it's excitingto see the thought processes in terms of mapping thingslike illicit financial flows or trade-based money launderingand the like. That's what I'm excited about.It's hard to describe a World-Check in one wordbecause there have been many things over the many years.Happy 25th anniversary. I would say World-Check is confidentin who they are, what they do, how they deliver,and how they show up. That confidence gives us peace and claritywhen we know what we're doing when we're working with World-Check.What I'd like to see in the next 25 years is World-Check's own AI assistants.We joke about chatbots and things like that.However, it's purely because of the interactivenessthat you get from an AI assistant, sometimes it makes life a bit easierat two o'clock in the morning, when you can't call peopleand say: "I have this problem." That sort of thinking I've seen.I've heard of pockets, which might be just rumors,but it'll be exciting to see if that does come through.I have no doubts that Work-Check and LSEG can deliver on innovation,because you guys have gone from strength to strength through the years.

Sarvesh Ramkisson

Money Laundering Compliance Officer, Group Compliance, Old Mutual

Throughout his career, Sarvesh Ramkisson, money laundering compliance officer at Old Mutual, has used many different data service providers. In this video, he shares how the data quality of World-Check helps him and his team to confidently manage risk across the business. Watch this video to find out more.

Lebogang Magabe

AML, CFT and Sanctions Operations Manager at TymeBank

TymeBank is South Africa's first digital-only bank, and the first new bank to receive a license in the country in over two decades. Balancing compliance and customer experience for digital banks is crucial. In this video, Lebogang Magabe, who is managing the bank's AML, CFT and sanctions operations, covers what is necessary for compliance professionals to stay a step ahead of financial criminals.

Hitesh Palla

Head of Client Accounts, DMA

DMA is a fintech company that provides an end-to-end SaaS solution to institutional investors. The company enables regulated entities like asset managers, wealth managers, investment managers and financial advisors to connect their front and back office, break silos and reduce headcount. Hitesh Palla, head of client accounts at DMA, says that World-Check helps him and his team to make a difference. Watch this video to find out how.

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.

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Subject matter expertise

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.

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Targeted screening

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.

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In-depth search

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.

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