Accuity

Get better protection with Accuity's PEP and Sanctions look-up tool

Accuity's PEP and Sanctions Online Compliance is an indispensable research tool to assist with your Know Your Customer practices, giving you access to the most comprehensive data available combined with industry-leading technology to help protect your business.

Engaging in new business relationships can be risky. In order to properly undertake the necessary due diligence and investigation activities that must be conducted to reduce risk and comply with EU AML regulations, you need a combination of comprehensive and accurate data combined with superior technology.

Better data quality With analysts worldwide, we constantly update and enrich our data. We are the only data provider audited and awarded a TÜV Compliance certification—confirming our PEP data structure and content meets the EU 3rd Money Laundering Directive requirements.

	Better functionality More Unique Identifiers than any other vendor including date of birth, passport number, middle name, address, photograph which means less time reviewing each hit. Plus we are the only provider to offer False Positive Reduction consultancy services.
	Better coverage More PEPs, Sanctions and high risk entity coverage than any other source. In fact, over 100 Government and Enforcement Agencies worldwide use Accuity's AML compliance solutions, including UK FSA, Russian FIU and U.S. Homeland Security.
	Better interface Our two-click policy guarantees the information you need is never more than two mouse clicks away, and our easy-to-use interface is very intuitive—saving you time and allowing for quick adoption by users.
	Better customer service Accuity offers a team of knowledgeable customer assistance and technical support professionals who are at your service to help you get the most out of our industry-leading compliance solutions. Our subject-matter experts are also available to optimise existing processes and provide training to your staff.

About Online Compliance

Online Compliance is an indispensable research tool to assist with your Know Your Customer practices, giving you access to the most comprehensive data available combined with industry-leading technology to help protect your business. Information includes: name, aliases, date of birth, place of birth, photographs, positions, family members, associates and company holdings. Entities include precise source links for further verification, if necessary.

Our data team monitors over 500 enforcement agencies, 20,000 newspapers and magazines, court filings, company records and all global sanction lists. We do this every day.

Some key features:

• Advanced search: Search by exact, proximal, phonetic and cultural match and in non-roman characters using a highly advanced matching engine to pinpoint vital information immediately. Users have the ability to adjust the fuzzy logic threshold—for 100% company-focused risk approach and reduction in False Positives.
• Multiple name search: The tool allows for up to 10 records/names to be searched at once, saving you time when researching multiple entities.
• Match percentage: Quickly focus on the matches that are closest to your search, choosing a match-rate threshold that best meets your risk based approach.
• Passport validation: Verify the composition of the Machine Readable Zone and instantly detect forged or altered passports for over 110 countries to know who you’re dealing with straight away.
• Translation module: Look at the original file format and immediately translate for quick and easy review.
• Language options: The easy-to-navigate user interface can be rendered in a variety of language options, including English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Russian and Chinese.
• Customer service: Our dedicated team of researchers will quickly respond to any requests for additional information to enhance expedient decision making. By using the “Investigate” button on the tool you can request additional research to be performed by our team of expert researchers.
• Audit trail: E-mail profiles, PDF it, print and save files easily and with comments and date registered to help maintain an accurate record of all user research activity
• Spiderware module: Visually examine the relationships and degrees of separation of companies and individual including family members, associates and business partners to provide a full interactive and up-to-date picture of that particular entity.
• Visual confirmation: Using the “mouse over” function instantly reveals the key information for a particular record, including photographs, for streamlined access.
• Micro-categorization: A unique feature, allows you to configure the tool to only show PEP search results that match your organization’s definition of a Politically Exposed Person.