International Background Checks.
Providing the information required to make ASSURED employment decisions.
International Background Checks
Our international background checks into senior executives, managers and new hires, entails rigorous interrogation and analysis of information gathered from a range of open sources.
Our international background checks include:
- subscribed databases
- press and online media articles
- company registries
- civil and court records searches
- public records and documents
- insolvency registers
- financial regulator fines and licenses
- sanctions and PEP checks
- social media platforms
- adverse key word searches
- employment and education verifications
- professional qualification verifications
Why perform International Background Checks?
Including false information in an application is fraud. Performing background checks when a new employee is poised to join an organisation is an essential anti-fraud measure. Background checks are a proactive approach and helps mitigate the risk of hiring dishonest employees who could potentially engage in fraudulent activities within the organisation.
Not only does pre-employment screening act as a deterrent for dishonest individuals applying for positions within your organisation, but it also sets a positive culture for all employees, knowing that an organisation has a zero tolerance to fraudulent behaviour and looks to save the organisation from fraud losses.
“Fit and Proper” Checks
Our Fit and Proper checks, third party due diligence reports and international background checks covers multiple global jurisdictions and research is performed in various key languages.
We have a team of Analysts and Associates who interrogate the individual’s CV, application forms and corporate history specifically looking for adverse information and risk, including undisclosed red flags, conflicting findings, false or exaggerated statements and report these findings to the client.
Management Due Diligence and Regulatory References
Industry Insight, Business Intelligence and Source Enquiries
We provide clients with an independent analysis of an individual’s character and assess the appropriateness of their professional background by speaking with former colleagues, clients and senior management that had previously worked with the individual.
Our third party due diligence reports, enhanced due diligence, industry insight interviews and regulatory references, allows our clients to work with confidence and compliance.
Regulatory Compliance (Financial Services)
Furnishing clients with relevant background intelligence enables them to make sound investment decisions, whilst knowing their compliance and regulatory fears are protected.
Our analysis of new territories, emerging markets, ultimate beneficial owners, third-party risks, Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) and on-going Fit and Proper monitoring provides clients with a new standard of due diligence.
How we can help:
We regularly assist Nominated Advisers, corporate finance teams, brokers, venture capital and private equity companies helping them:
- adhere to the FCA’s Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) “Fit and Proper” regime
- implement Enhanced Due Diligence requirements
- comply with the London Stock Exchange rules for AIM directors/shareholders
- adopt anti-corruption and anti-money laundering rules and guidance
- design and implement FCPA compliance programmes; and
- undertake background checks for consumer credit organisations who fall under Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 regimes
- complete Management Due Diligence (MDD) insights and regulatory references
- review cyber risk landscapes and ICT due diligence
Enhanced Due Diligence
When dealing with individuals or companies established in high-risk jurisdictions, or are exposed to other cases of high risk, organisations are required to apply Enhanced Due Diligence measures to manage and mitigate those risks appropriately.
Organisations are required by anti-money-laundering directives, to assess, as far as reasonably possible, the background and purpose of all complex and unusually large transactions. This also includes researching any unusual transaction patterns, which do not have any economic or lawful appearance.
How to conduct Enhanced Due Diligence
Our Enhanced Due Diligence goes above and beyond financial regulatory requirements as well as setting “good governance” in other industries.
- We engage trusted local on-the-ground source inquiries and human sources which provides an additional level of assurance that online sources cannot
- We determine the subjects’ integrity, ability, reputation, and possible exposure to sanctions lists and litigation
- Examine different and independent sources of information with a specific focus on identifying factors that could damage the reputation of the client; to provide assurance that an individual is a suitable candidate to act as an investor, director or senior hire for the organisation.
- Our risk-based approach will help determine whether an individual is in a higher-risk category and to consider whether additional industry insight or business intelligence research from independent sources is required.
- Perform industry insight interviews and regulatory references in an endeavour to ascertain insight into the individual’s professional character, source of wealth and additional questioning.
- Provide clients with accurate and detailed intelligence they can use to confidently make business decisions.
Find out how we can help you
We understand that due diligence, corporate investigations and protection services can be sensitive and complex matters, and we take steps to ensure that all of our clients’ information is kept strictly confidential.
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