Features & benefits
Streamline compliance: KYC and AML for legal professionals
Our cutting-edge technology effortlessly integrates with current systems, requiring minimal setup and providing a seamless user experience for fast client onboarding.
Explore comprehensive screening tools and batch screening capabilities to identify high-risk individuals and PEPs. Identity verification capabilities help uncover the Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) and mitigate further business and hidden risks. Continuous monitoring provides valuable insights into AML trends, enabling legal professionals to enhance their risk assessment strategies and stay compliant.
Access World-Check One’s industry-leading database for comprehensive client screenings and quickly identify suspicious activity. This proactive approach allows you to address issues before they impact your business. A solution that grows with your growing business, World-Check One helps you gain a holistic view of your clients’ risk profiles and make informed decisions.
World-Check One helps you stay compliant by adopting a risk-based approach so you can dedicate resources more efficiently and fulfil your anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financial obligations.
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.
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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 legal practice secure?
KYC (Know Your Customer) is an essential part of verifying a client’s identity and assessing potential risks associated with them. By conducting thorough KYC and AML checks for solicitors and lawyers/law firms, they can protect themselves from becoming unintentional accomplices to money laundering, fraud and other illicit activities.
Moreover, staying ahead of compliance is critical. Measures around anti-money laundering for solicitors reduces the risk of being unwittingly involved in financial crimes. According to FATF, potentials risks in the legal industry include:
Client accounts misuse
Creation and management of trusts and companies
Creation and management of charities
Management of client affairs
Purchase of property
Undertaking specific litigation
Not adopting a risk-based approach early on can affect the legal industry in many ways
- Law firms without a risk-based solution can become easy targets for criminals and might miss crucial indicators of money laundering.
- Failure to comply with FATF guidelines can invite regulatory investigations and reputational damage.
- Failure to identify and report suspicious activity can incur legal and financial liability.
- Blocked implementation of preventative measures that address potential vulnerabilities before they arise.
- Inefficient client-onboarding that lacks tailored solutions and ongoing monitoring.
Simplifying AML checks for legal professionals with a risk-based approach
- Given the diversity in scale and activities, some legal professions may be more vulnerable to being exploited for money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF) than others.
- This guidance highlights the need for a sound assessment of the ML/TF risks that legal professionals face so that the policies, procedures and initial and ongoing client due diligence (CDD) measures can mitigate these risks. This risk-based approach (RBA) is central to the EU anti money laundering directive (AMLD) to fight money laundering and terrorist financing.
Source: Guidance for a Risk-Based Approach Guidance for Legal Professionals (fatf-gafi.org)
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Data File
Integrate World-Check data into third-party or proprietary workflow solutions that perform customer due diligence, customer screening, and/or payments screening.
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.
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
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
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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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