2. WorldCompliance Data Highlights
• 67 risk categories including terrorism, narcotics, money laundering, fraud, tax evasion, collateral crimes and
Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) Law
• Over 32,000 sources monitored in 57 native languages
• Over 125,000 updates or additions per month
• Sanctions, Enforcements, PEPs & Adverse Media
• Largest dedicated research team in the industry – 24/7 research operations
• Over 2.5m Consolidated Risk Entities
2Proprietary & Confidential - Do not share outside of your organization.
• Multi lingual profiles available and
searchable in English and local language.
Names are provided in non-romanised
character formats where required
• As a matter of policy, every attempt is made to find
3 different sources for all profiles (with the
exception of sanctioned entities).
• Over 90+ sanctions lists, 1000+ enforcement lists
monitored and updated in real-time
• Unique combination of expert researchers, proprietary technology and proven research and content process efficiencies
3. Nearly 450 analysts and researchers in 14 offices
worldwide, gathering and structuring information
Key Regional and Topical Considerations
Risk Solutions 3
LexisNexis WorldCompliance data.
Key languages monitored
Albanian
Arabic
Armenian
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Cantonese
Chinese
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dari Persian
Dutch
Estonian
Filipino
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Kannada
Konkan
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Malayalam
Malaysian
Mandarin
Marathi
Montenegrin
Norwegian
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Taiwanese
Tamil
Tigrigna
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
ไทย
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
العربية
한국의
русский
中國
עברית
日本人
4. There is no global definition of a PEP. Most countries have based their definition
on the Financial Action Task Force on Money laundering (FATF) definition.
• A current or former senior official in the executive, legislative, administrative, military,
or judicial branch of a foreign government (elected or not)
• A senior official of a major foreign political party
• A senior executive of a foreign government-owned commercial enterprise, being a corporation, business
or other entity formed by or for the benefit of any such individual
• An immediate family member of such individual; meaning spouse, parents, siblings, children, and
spouse's parents or siblings
• Any individual publicly known (or actually known by the relevant financial institution) to be a close
personal or professional associate.
• The FATF definition is not intended to include middle-ranking or more junior individuals although some
local laws do.
• As of Feb 2012, the FATF definition was revised to include domestic PEPs
• Most FATF member countries treat domestic and foreign PEPs with heightened scrutiny.
• The FATF Guidance says that if a person is a foreign PEP, that de facto makes them a domestic PEP in
their own country. (In order to export proceeds of crime, the PEP must first use their own domestic
financial system and thus, more importance should be placed on domestic, and non-foreign PEPs)
FATF Definition of a Politically Exposed Person (PEP)
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5. Over sixty risk categories
Risk Solutions 5
Aircraft hijacking
Antitrust violations
Arms trafficking
Asset freeze
Associate
Attorney
Bank fraud
Bribery
Burglary
Conspiracy
Corruption
Counterfeiting
Courts
Crime against humanity
Debarred
Diplomat
Disciplined
Disqualified
Drug trafficking
Embezzlement
Environmental crimes
Espionage
Explosives
Extort-Rack-Threats
Family member
Financial crimes
Forgery
Former PEP
Fraud
Fugitive
Gambling operations
Govt. branch member
Healthcare fraud
Honorary consul
Piracy
Political candidate
Pollution
Pornography
Price manipulation
RICO
Securities fraud
Senior party member
Smuggling
Stolen property
Tax evasion
Terrorism
Unauthorised
Union leadership
War crimes
WMD
Human rights abuse
Human trafficking
Interstate commerce
Investigation
Kidnapping
Labour violations
Mgmt. Govt. Corp.
Military
Money laundering
Mortgage fraud
Most wanted
Murder
Organised crime
Others
Insider trading
Peonage
Pharma trafficking
6. Questions & Contact Details
For further information please contact the ICIL team
Editor's Notes
JWE – Multi-lingual only for Latin America ? Otherwise, all profiles are in English. Names are provided in non-romanized character formats where required.
Recommend the revised statement: “As a matter of policy, every attempt is made to find 3 different sources for all profiles”
Joy – UPDATED as of 23 Dec
Languages are an important component because it indicates coverage and lends credibility when we make statements concerning the sources from which we extract information (news m
Albanian Arabic Armenian Bosnian Bulgarian Cantonese Croatian Czech Danish Dari Persian Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Kannada Kazakh Konkani Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malayalam Malaysian Marathi Montenegrin Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Standard Mandarin Swedish Taiwanese Tamil Tigrigna Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese
edia sources and court filings for example)
JWE – Recommend the revised statement:
The FATF Guidance says that if a person is a foreign PEP, that de facto makes them a domestic PEP in their own country. (In order to export proceeds of crime, the PEP must first use their own domestic financial system and thus, more importance should be placed on domestic, and non-foreign PEPs)
Joy : updated as of 23 Dec 2014.
This is a sample of he over sixty risk categories that we follow. Each profile containing a relationship tree of family members and business associates. We may want to consider including a summary profile highlighting the unique indicators and relationship tree.