AML Compliance API: Accessing Licensed International Adverse Media with Nexis Data+
Two AML compliance APIs can be sent the same entity, on the same day, with the same matching logic, and return different answers. The difference is rarely in the endpoint. It sits in the source set each integration is reading: which publications are covered, whether...
Beyond Surface Searches: Conducting Depth-Driven Due Diligence Checks with Nexis Diligence+
Typing a name into a search engine and finding nothing alarming is not a due diligence check. It is the absence of a result, which is a different thing entirely. A clean first page reflects what a public crawler has indexed and ranked, not what licensed registries...
Risk-Tiered Customer Due Diligence: Simplified, Standard, Enhanced and Trigger Events
Customer due diligence works only when the depth of effort is proportional to the risk in front of the analyst, but in practice many programmes drift toward a single uniform process because tiering rules are unwritten or inconsistently applied. The intent is rarely...
Risk-Based PEP Checks: Tiering Politically Exposed Persons for Proportionate Screening with Nexis Diligence+
A retired backbench MP in a standard-risk jurisdiction and a sitting foreign head of state are both politically exposed persons under current regulatory definitions. They do not present the same risk. Yet many compliance teams apply effectively the same screening...
The Coverage Gap Problem: Why Most News Monitoring Services Miss What Matters
What a news monitoring service catches is visible. What it misses is not. Coverage gaps - in source licensing, language, geography, and historical depth - create blind spots that organisations cannot see until the consequences arrive: a reputational crisis reported...
Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD): Uncovering Historic Risk with Nexis Diligence+
Enhanced Due Diligence is situated at the junction of uncertainty and consequence. It is invoked not because wrongdoing has been proven, but because available information leaves important questions unanswered. At this point, standard screening ceases to be proportionate...
Advanced KYC Workflows: Conducting High-Stakes Entity Checks in Nexis Diligence+
Not all KYC checks are created equal. A low-risk domestic sole trader does not present the same analytical challenge as a multi-layered holding company with operations across three continents, opaque subsidiaries, and exposure to politically sensitive jurisdictions...
Seven Ways Companies Can Effectively Respond to the Global Spread of New Anti-Money Laundering Regulations
Seven Ways Companies Can Effectively Respond to the Global Spread of New Anti-Money Laundering Regulations In the last blog in our AML series , we outlined the major developments which are driving rapid regulatory changes across the world. Today, we are going...