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18 December 2006
World-Check, the leading provider of risk related intelligence to the financial community, has once again proven its worth as an early warning system of heightened-risk individuals and entities. On December 6th the US Treasury added nine individuals and two businesses to the OFAC list.  World-Check had already previously profiled five of the nine individuals. One of the individuals, Sobhi Mahmoud Fayad, has been on World-Check for almost three years
13 November 2006
World-Check, the world's leading provider of structured intelligence on heightened-risk individuals and entities together with the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore are proud to announce the “ICPVTR – World-Check Fellowship’.  World-Check and the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) specialize in analysing threats to countries and risks to business.
3 October 2006
World-Check is delighted to announce that David Leppan, CEO and founder of World-Check, the industry pioneer and leader in the provision of KYC and PEP intelligence, has been invited as the sole KYC industry expert to speak at this premier event, to be held in Kuwait on the 4th to 7th of November, 2006, under the special patronage of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.
13 September 2006
World-Check, the leading provider of risk-related intelligence on heightened risk individuals and entities, is proud of its record of being ahead of the sanction-listing curve.  During the last 18 months the US Treasury (OFAC) has augmented the OFAC List with some 330 individuals and entities.  Through its continued research and expertise, World-Check had identified 89 of these prior to their inclusion on OFAC.
11 September 2006

World-Check the global leader in the provision of highly structured KYC and PEP related intelligence to both the commercial and government sector is delighted to announce that journalist Rahul Sharma is bringing his wealth of experience to the company and will head up the Asia-Pacific Research Team from September 2006.

31 August 2006
Como resultado de las acciones mexicanas encaminadas al cumplimiento de las regulaciones internacionales en materia de LAVADO DE DINERO y FINANCIAMIENTO AL TERRORISMO la Secretaria de Hacienda y Crédito Publico creó la UNIDAD DE INTELIGENCIA FINANCIERA, como autoridad encargada de prevenir el uso del sistema financiero en las operaciones con recursos de procedencia ilícita.
19 July 2006
Arab Bank is using open source intelligence service from London-based World-Check to mitigate compliance risk across its operations internationally.
17 July 2006
LONDON, July 11, 2006: Mashreqbank, which has been a World-Check client since 2004, has signed a renewal agreement with the KYC & PEP Intelligence leader.
5 July 2006

World-Check the leading provider of heightened risk intelligence, today announces its commitment to the world’s largest orphan charity, SOS Children’s Villages.  World-Check will be sponsoring fifty children in five villages in Africa and in addition will sponsor a further eight villages across the world.

19 June 2006

World-Check, the leading provider of KYC and PEP intelligence on heightened risk individuals and entities, today announced the launch of “Passport-Check”, a pioneering and cutting edge module that verifies the authenticity of machine-readable passports. This extremely valuable feature will give all World-Check Online users the capability of verifying the identity of customers in seconds and more importantly will allow such checks to be carried out in-house.


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