• 2001

Company Description

WorldCompliance is an open source intelligence company that offers customer and vendor screening content used for AML and GRC solutions.

WorldCompliance is an open source intelligence company that offers customer and vendor screening content used for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions. It provides private industry and intelligence communities with solutions used to identify individuals and companies linked to over twenty different risk categories such as terrorism, narcotics, money laundering, and fraud, collateral crimes, beneficial owners, and PEPs (Politically Exposed Persons). The company maintains a database of profiles of individuals and organizations that pose a potential risk to the financial system. The database contains in-depth profiles with portrait photographs, along with other unique identifying details such as date of birth, place of birth, and multiple address information. WorldCompliance’s solutions include Online License: an account opening due diligence solution used to check the risk of new customers and business partners; Data License: a batch screening solution used to monitor customers and third parties; and ZYNG License: a batch screening solution used to automate the screening of customers, vendors, and suppliers. The company helps its clients comply with a multitude of worldwide legislations, ranging from the USA Patriot Act to the Third EU Money Laundering Directive, the Dodd-Frank Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and the UK Bribery Act. WorldCompliance was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida. It was acquired by [LexisNexis] (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lexisnexis) in 2013.