Registry & Risk Checks

A Smarter Way to Verify, Screen, and Safeguard

Our Registry & Risk Checks solution enables organizations to validate and screen individuals and entities using authoritative global registries and public data sources. It ensures coverage of crucial compliance elements—such as financial regulator registrations, corporate filings, professional licenses, insolvency records, sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEPs), and wanted-person listings. Searches are jurisdiction-specific, tailored to the geographic footprint of the subject to ensure relevance and precision.

Key Highlights

Global Registry Integration

Seamlessly searches authoritative sources worldwide—from regulatory databases and corporate registers to insolvency records and licensing bodies—to validate official status.

Tech + Human Hybrid Process

Combines automated data aggregation with expert human verification to ensure high accuracy and minimize false positives.

Jurisdictional Targeting

Customizes checks based on specific countries or regions relevant to the subject, ensuring relevance and reducing false matches.

Watchlist & Sanctions Screening

Real-time matching against major sanctions and criminal/wanted-person lists for full compliance visibility.

Components

Global Sanctions

A global search aimed at establishing whether the subject of interest is listed as a sanctioned person by financial regulators and other official national and international organizations and institutions.

Watchlists

A multi-source worldwide search of international and national Watchlist databases containing more than 1,000 sources.

Politically Exposed Persons (PEP)

A global search aimed at determining whether the subject can be considered a politically exposed person (PEP). This includes access to a comprehensive PEP database.

Wanted Person

A search of jurisdiction-specific lists of persons sought to be taken into or returned to custody by local, national, or international law enforcement authorities.

Financial Regulator

A search of a specific database managed by an in-country financial regulatory authority to confirm registrations and authorizations and/or uncover any disciplinary actions levied on the subject by the authority.

Directorship Checks

A search of in-country business registries and/or supplementary public company registry sources to determine if the subject holds or has held financial or board-level responsibilities in a business entity, including ownership.

Disqualified Director

Identify whether an individual has been officially disqualified from holding a directorship position in public or private business entities, through in-country registry and regulatory sanctions database searches.