02 Screening & due diligence
Due Diligence & Background Checks
Standard onboarding checks confirm that someone exists. Enhanced due diligence establishes whether they are who they have presented themselves to be.
Start a pilotThe gap between those two things is where most avoidable losses sit. A counterparty passes screening because the entity is real and the sanctions list is clean, while the beneficial owner sits behind two intermediate companies, the adverse media is in another language, and the litigation history is filed in a jurisdiction nobody checked.
We screen individuals and corporate entities against registries, court records, sanctions and PEP lists, adverse media and open sources, in the languages and jurisdictions that actually apply. What you receive is written to survive scrutiny — sourced, dated, and explicit about what we could not establish as well as what we could.
01 What you receive
Deliverables.
Every engagement produces a written, sourced deliverable — not a dashboard login you will never open.
- Written report
- Structured for legal, regulatory and corporate risk use, with every finding sourced and dated.
- Ownership mapping
- Beneficial ownership traced through intermediate structures where records allow.
- Risk summary
- A clear statement of what was found, what it means, and what remains unknown.
- Supporting documents
- Filings, records and captures underpinning each material finding.
02 Method
How it runs.
- 01
Scope
We agree the subject, the jurisdictions in play and the depth the decision warrants.
- 02
Collect
Registries, court records, sanctions and PEP data, adverse media, open sources.
- 03
Corroborate
Material findings are confirmed against a second independent source before they are reported.
- 04
Report
Delivered in writing, with the limits of the search stated explicitly.
04 Common questions
How long does a report take?
A standard subject in a well-documented jurisdiction is typically a few working days. Complex ownership structures or jurisdictions with poor public records take longer, and we tell you which you are dealing with before we start rather than after.
Is the subject notified?
Not by us. We collect from open and lawfully accessible sources and do not contact the subject. Where UK GDPR requires the subject to be informed, that obligation sits with you as data controller and we will flag it.
What if you find nothing?
That is a result, and we report it as one. A clean search documented to a defensible standard is exactly what a regulator or a court wants to see — provided the search was genuinely competent, which is what the sourcing in our reports demonstrates.
Tell us what you would want watched. We will scope a pilot on it, in writing, before anything is agreed.