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2008 Archive
19 December 2008
LONDON, 19 December, 2008. Dragon Capital Group, the most experienced investment house in Vietnam, today announced that it has chosen World-Check to enhance its Due Diligence and Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance processes. World-Check is the leading provider of risk intelligence for the screening of customers, transactions, employees, prospective clients and service providers in accordance with globally accepted risk management procedures.
10 December 2008
Three senior leaders of a German cell of the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU) were named as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) by the U.S. Treasury Department on the 4th of December, freezing all of their assets and prohibiting U.S. persons from engaging in transactions with them. World-Check profiled these individuals in detail more than one year before the sanctions were issued.
27 November 2008
London, 27 November, 2008. On November 20th, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated three key leaders of the al-Shabaab terrorist movement in Somalia. The three operatives – Ahmed Abdi aw-Mohammed, Issa Osman Issa and Mukhtar Robow -- have led the movement’s rise in Somalia since breaking from the Islamic Courts Union in 2006. World-Check's specialist Terrorism and Insurgency Research Unit (TIRU) had detailed profiles of these individuals up to two years before the recent sanctions were issued.
22 October 2008
22 October 2008
LONDON, 21 October, 2008. World-Check, the leading global provider of risk intelligence, and eSum Technologies Inc, a leading e-business solutions provider in South Korea, have announced a strategic alliance that will offer a seamless solution for customer and identity authentication screening against the World-Check risk intelligence database.
Compliance Leadership Forum provides platform for knowledge sharing and better understanding of best practices in compliance industry
23 September 2008
10 September 2008
1 September 2008
World-Check's Board of Directors has today announced the appointment of Daniel Peak to the position of Chief Executive Officer. This appointment marks the culmination of a carefully architected expansion of World-Check’s management team that will lead this market-pioneering company through its continued rapid growth.
World-Check reports accelerated client growth, adding over 200 institutions to its client base in the past three months
26 August 2008
30 July 2008
Lloyd’s, the world’s leading specialist insurance market,today announced that it has chosen World-Check to meet its Due Diligence and Know Your Customer compliance needs. World-Check is the leading provider of intelligence on heightened risk individuals and entities to more than 2900 institutions in 161 countries.
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World-Check is providing the project team with access to the Country-Check system which is used by organizations worldwide for country profi...more
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