Specially Designed Due Diligence Searches / Other Public Record Checks
GlobalRisk Check™
International businesses are under increasing scrutiny to ensure that they are (and are seen to be) in compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act or equivalent legislation. The number of politicians and their family members who are involved in private enterprises is growing, as is the ability of Federal agencies to identify these. Our GlobalRisk Check™ database has access to one of the world’s largest databases of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and currently maintains over 200,000 PEP records.
Regulatory Authorities Check
Our International Regulatory Authorities Check is a search of Asian, European and North American regulatory authorities and determines if an applicant has been listed as barred or received censor. Some of the authorities searched include Standard US OFAC lists, US SEC, Canadian SEC, Pakistan SEC, India SEC Board, Hong Kong SEC, Malaysian SEC, Japan SEC and Surveillance Commission, Indonesian Capital Market Supervisory Agency, New Zealand SEC, Thailand SEC, Bangladesh SEC, Australian SEC and Investment CO, UK FSA and Lloyds of London.
International Compliance Check
We have developed a broad range of compliance databases that cover both government lists of debarred parties and companies and individuals censured by target country financial regulatory authorities. Along with the US OFAC list of Database searches included in our International Compliance Check, we include the following: Bank of England, Home Office Proscribed Lists, Sanctions List, United Nations Consolidated List, Global Money Laundering Database, World Bank International Investment Disputes, International Court of Justice, Asian Corrupt Government Officials Database, Interpol Most Wanted, Dubai Police Most Wanted and International War Crimes Tribunal searches.
Corporate Affiliation Search
The Corporate Affiliation Search comprises GIS' Conflict of Interest Search (CIS). This business search will determine if the applicant is on record with the local company registration body as being a company director, shareholder, or business owner.
Corporate Scandals and Terrorist Financing Check
Our overseas investigative agents are involved in many major money laundering and fraud related assignments. Data from these, including the many shell companies used by the groups involved, are stored in a database for very sensitive data. Our research staff has conducted extensive in-house research on all companies and individuals named in various US lawsuits of involvement in financing the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Data is held on those named, their associated companies (and the companies’ directors), shareholding and other investments. While this data is Middle Eastern in focus it also contains pertinent data on associated companies globally.
Financial Crime Investigative Database Check
Each country data file contains information on companies and individuals who have been convicted, charged or directly associated (due to common directorships / shareholdings) with some form of major financial crime or major loan default.
Foreign Newswire Service, Media Searches
GIS maintains access to over 31,000 off-line US news-related databases that span the globe, including current and archived records. When needed, the optical image of any on-line full text article can be obtained. Our foreign press search database consists of over 8,000 local language news sources with archives spanning over 20 years. We cover all major overseas newswires, newspapers, magazines, trade journals and other specialized industry publications reported back to the client in English. Included in the search results are not only the standard information retrieved by conventional search engines but many other possible leads. These data sources may be accessed manually via a subscription-based service through our international group (per-article or per-minute rates) and then translated into English if applicable. This approach enables GIS to offer the broadest international media search capability available for due diligence screening purposes.