KYC VERIFICATION AND CUSTOMER SCREENING PLATFORM

Scalable KYC and AML solutions for growing law firms and solicitors

Safeguard your legal practice and ensure AML (Anti Money Laundering) compliance with our comprehensive KYC (Know Your Customer) procedures. From identity verification and risk assessment to ongoing monitoring, our solution helps you remain compliant.

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KYC VERIFICATION AND CUSTOMER SCREENING PLATFORM

Scalable KYC and AML solutions for growing law firms and solicitors

Safeguard your legal practice and ensure AML (Anti Money Laundering) compliance with our comprehensive KYC (Know Your Customer) procedures. From identity verification and risk assessment to ongoing monitoring, our solution helps you remain compliant. 

Features & benefits

Streamline compliance: KYC and AML for legal professionals

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Technology that seamlessly integrates

Our cutting-edge technology effortlessly integrates with current systems, requiring minimal setup and providing a seamless user experience for fast client onboarding.

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Targeted and ongoing screenings

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.

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Built to scale alongside your business

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.

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Aligned with FATF guidelines for legal professionals

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.

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 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)

  • 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.

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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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