KYC Verification and Customer Screening Platform

LSEG World-Check One for real estate firms and estate agents

Leverage state-of-the-art technology to streamline due diligence processes and transform your KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti Money Laundering) compliance blockers into catalysts for growth and competitive advantage. 

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KYC Verification and Customer Screening Platform

LSEG World-Check One for real estate firms and estate agents

Leverage state-of-the-art technology to streamline due diligence processes and transform your Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti Money Laundering (AML) compliance blockers into catalysts for growth and competitive advantage. 

Features & benefits

What you get with World-Check One

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Seamless, tech-friendly integration

Our advanced technology requires minimal configuration and seamlessly integrates with existing processes with a single touchpoint, ensuring client onboarding is fast and user optimised.

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Targeted screenings and ongoing monitoring

Access screening options, batch screenings, and case management solutions to identify high-risk individuals and PEPs. Ongoing monitoring surfaces insights into emerging AML trends, helping real estate professionals refine risk assessment strategies.

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A highly scalable solution that grows with you

Detect suspicious activities with World-Check One’s real-time data and ensure on-going regulatory compliance for clients. Take a deeper dive through EDD (Enhanced Due Diligence) reports to obtain more details regarding UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner), local news media, litigation, regulatory, bankruptcy and more.

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Complying with FATF guidelines for real estate

Mitigate money laundering risks and enable faster digital onboarding of clients. With World-Check One, seamlessly implement AML/CFT policies, freeing up valuable human and financial resources.

Our packages

Find the perfect fit or tailor your solution. Explore our range of World-Check One packages to meet your unique business requirements. Should you require assistance with your purchase, please reach out to one of our specialists.

The flexible tier-1 package provides an allocation of usage points that can be utilised across the defined screening and due diligence services in a combination that suits your business needs over a 12-month period.
The flexible tier-2 package provides an allocation of usage points that can be utilised across the defined screening and due diligence services in a combination that suits your business needs over a 12-month period.
World-Check One custom package caters to:

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Streamlined screening

Streamline processes such as integrating large volumes of information and advanced functionalities into existing workflows and internal systems with our API.

Secondary matching

Reduce false positives to a minimum with multiple secondary identifiers in World-Check, combined with configurable name matching algorithms and filtering technology.

Integrated workflow

Perform Due Diligence check and Ongoing Screening from within your Opportunity or Contact list within Salesforce, escalate high profiles matches to senior analyst, keep track of risk remediation and compliance review all in one place.

Ongoing monitoring

The powerful combination of World-Check One capabilities enables you to simplify screening for money laundering, sanctions and threat finance; monitor PEP relationships and networks; identify third-party risks; configure ongoing monitoring and more.

Is your client’s property funding crime?

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) estimated that $1.6 trillion were laundered in 2021, which was nearly half the real estate sector’s total worth (around $3.7 trillion)

As real estate is attractive to money launderers, verifying the identity of the ultimate beneficial owner (UBO), assessing the risk profiles of clients and uncovering if funds are legitimate, are an absolute must and can help mitigate business risks.  

Potentials risks in the real estate industry include:

  • Country/geographic risk: Location of the buyer and seller, location of the property in relation to the buyer 
  • Customer risk: Charities and non-profit organisations not subject to monitoring, PEPs, cash incentive businesses

  • Transaction risk: Type of property, quick and successive transactions, under or over-valued transactions 

  • Financial risk: Source of funds, cash deposits, loans from unregulated financial institutions

Not adopting a risk-based approach early on can affect real estate professionals 

  • Delaying and blocking transactions that involve sanctioned individuals and entities.

  • Freezing assets in possession of sanctioned parties. 

  • Heavy penalties when sanctions are breached

  • Irreversible reputational damage or prison sentence 

Simplifying AML checks for estate agents with a risk-based approach

  • Carry out all necessary measures to understand the ownership and control structure of any legal entity.  

  • Assess the degree of verification required regarding the beneficial owners depending on the associated ML/TF risks. GUIDANCE FOR A RISK-BASED APPROACH TO THE REAL ESTATE SECTOR | 41 © FATF/OECD 2022  

  • Document the additional procedures to be applied and the measures taken to identify the beneficial owner, as well as the difficulties encountered in establishing identity.  

  • Carry out a thorough search of relevant and available beneficial ownership information, where available to the public, financial institutions, or DNFBPs.  

  • Have a clear and concise policy and relevant training for the basis of a real estate professional or any relevant employee within the business (not limited to the money laundering reporting officer) to lodge a suspicious transaction report when the identity of the beneficial owner has not been satisfied due to a lack of CDD information. 

Source: Risk Based Approach Guidance for the Real Estate Sector (fatf-gafi.org) 

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

  • Each package grants you a specific allocation of usage points. These points can be utilised across the diverse services available in the package, allowing you more control as per your specific needs.

    For instance, one month, you might need to screen a list of new customers or suppliers, utilising your usage points on initial World-Check screens. In the following month, you might prioritise due diligence on existing high-risk customers. This month-by-month flexibility allows you to tailor your usage, optimise your resources, and address evolving changes.

  • Usage points are valid for 12 months from the date of purchase, which means you have a full year to utilise them across various services as part of your package. However, any unused usage points will not carry over to the next 12-month period and no refunds are offered for the same.

  • You can easily monitor your allocated usage points through the online dashboard, which offers information on usage statistics, invoicing, FAQs, and customer support. The dashboard provides a clear breakdown of your usage and it's also possible to set up alerts when you hit 50%/70%/90% of your contracted usage points.

  • Should you fully utilise your usage points before the end of your 12-month period, you can continue using the services. Any additional usage will be automatically charged at a set fee during the following quarter. The fee will be sent as part of a separate invoice, which will be outlined in the order form.

  • Each package gives access for up to 3 users.

  • The billing cycle begins on the first day of the next calendar month. Billing will take place quarterly upfront throughout the contractual period and any usage above the minimum commitment included in your package will be charged quarterly in arrears on a separate invoice.

  • Our data is exclusively available only to those who require it to carry out due diligence or other screening activities in accordance with their legal or regulatory obligations or risk management procedures designed to combat financial crime. For more details, refer to World-Check privacy statement.

Using our data

More ways you can use our data

Data File

Integrate World-Check data into third-party or proprietary workflow solutions that perform customer due diligence, customer screening, and/or payments screening.

Data File fact sheet

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), and third-party risk due diligence.

API fact sheet

Zero Footprint screening

Benefit from the ability to switch off system tracking, ongoing screening, batch upload, and audit trail functions during screening to ensure no permanent record is kept

More about Zero Footprint screening

Testimonials

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

Awards

Check out some of our awards

Chartis Financial Crime and Compliance 50 (FCC50)
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
Best AML/CTF Compliance Solution 2019
Best Anti-Money Laundering Solution 2018

RegTech Insight Awards USA
Best KYC Data Solution 2022

Central Banking FinTech RegTech Global Awards
Best Anti-Money Laundering Technology Provider in 2018

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