Knowledge at your fingertips with instant AML screening

StartKYC’s Anti-money laundering (AML) Screening give a complete picture on a potential PEP exposure, risk level, adverse media, and suspicious activity.  It also includes information about sanctions and blacklists, thus improves fraud prevention, terrorism financing, evasion of international sanctions and all types of money laundering.  Our AML Screening solution is legally compliant, affordable, fast,effective and automated thus reducing the time and financial burden that such screening can bring with it.

Results of a StartKYC, AML Screening include information from the following databases:

Global Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) Lists

With over one million profiles, our PEP information covers individuals, PEP related legal entities, and state-owned enterprises. Click here to see what a typical PEP profile includes:

A typical PEP profile includes, as a minimum:

• Identity information, including details of any aliases used and names in original script
• Addresses
• Details of political office(s) held
• Details of associated businesses
• Details of individuals linked to the profiled person, including family members and business associates
• A cached collection of original source documents, referenced to create the profile
• PEP classification split into 5 tier levels allowing an initial indication of the potential risk

Global Sanctions lists

Global sanction lists are monitored every half-hour, with releases being updated within an hour of release on a constant basis. Ongoing, reviewing and updating processes also ensures the highest level of sanction data availability. Click here to see what a typical sanction data coverage report includes.

Sanction data coverage includes:

• HMT sanction regimes
• OFAC & Bureau of International Security and Non-Proliferation Sanctions
• UNSC Resolutions
• EU Restrictive measures
• National / Unilateral restrictive measures (where applicable)

Achieving consistency in global sanctions compliance, requires advanced technology and access to the watch lists driving sanctions filtering. StartKYC data enables you to keep up with the rapid pace of regulation, on a global scale.

International Watch Lists

Our international watch lists include data from varied sources to provide extensive insight on individuals or legal entities other than regular PEP and Sanction data. Sources are monitored on a constant basis to allow our customers to assess their clients from a 360-degree perspective. Click here to see what a typical report includes from our International Watch Lists includes.

International Watch Lists coverage includes :

• Financial regulators (over 400 sources); any individual or entity that has been fined or in some other way subject to action by any financial regulatory body are included in our lists.
• Law enforcement (over 600 sources) and restrictive trading ‘watch lists’ (e.g. UK Financial Conduct Authority, US Securities and Exchange Commission, Interpol, Europol, the FBI and other national police wanted lists).
• Criminal convictions within the confines of the legislation in appropriate jurisdictions
• Industry and other commercial or specialist sources
• Global Corporate Registry Data
• Global Lists of Insolvents and Bankrupts and Disqualified Directors
• Global ID Verification

Global Adverse Media Databases

With over 10,000 sources, our Global Adverse Media data includes any individual or entity that has been reported in global newspapers, news sites or other media as being involved in crime of any nature. All sources are saved in cached versions to ensure constant access to all articles saved in a pdf format thus avoiding the frustration of dead-links.

And more

Our sources include official sites such as government or national assemblies and foreign offices:

• CIA World Leaders
• CIA World Factbook
• Rulers articles and other databases continually monitored to additional information
• Gov’t/Official websites covering all levels of PEPs
• Other useful open sources, e.g. those independent from the state control

Regular updates are performed from selected media websites through daily media checks

Where English sources prove insufficient to account for the personal traits and affiliations of certain PEPs, foreign sources (in foreign/local languages) would be relied upon to obtain fresh information and bridge the gaps between inconsistent information.