Bryant & Associates provides High Risk Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) by searching various internal and external, private and public databases. The various databases that we routinely access are compiled from thousands of reputable international public sources including newspapers, newsletters, newswires, technical journals and periodicals, industry publications, official law enforcement wants and warrants lists, prosecutorial bodies, intelligence agencies, governmental sanction lists and regulatory enforcement actions.
This High Risk Enhanced Due Diligence search is designed to identify individuals or entities worldwide that are known, suspected or substantially alleged to be involved in, either directly or indirectly, money laundering, organized crime, fraud, drug trafficking, terrorism, public corruption, human rights violations, or subject to official sanction. In addition, lists of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), their family members and close associates are continually added to the database. To reflect new developments, the database is updated daily with hundreds of additional individual/entity names being added monthly including photographs when available.
A search may be conducted by individual, corporation, aircraft, and vessel or country name. The results returned include any and all identifying data, affiliations (individual or corporation), allegation/charge, agency/jurisdiction, disposition and date reported. In a majority of cases, particulars can be provided as to the details of the scheme or the nature of the involvement of the individual or entity in the high risk behavior. A copy of the search results is provided with a date and time stamp as proof of due diligence. In order to enhance the comprehensiveness of the results, a manual open source and specifically targeted internet search will also be conducted on the subject name, particular emphasis will also be placed in the jurisdiction where the subject is domiciled.
Advantages of utilizing our EDD methodology:
- Proprietary databases are among the most comprehensive in the industry,
- Database sources are complied by a subject matter expert,
- Proprietary Intelligent Agent which multi-tasks more than 100 search engines consisting of 10′s of thousands of sources,
- We currently cover more than 10,000 news sources alone worldwide in more than 20 languages with a historical archive dating back to more than 30 years for some publications,
- Search covers the vast majority of the historical and invisible web’s more than 20 billion web pages and 700 billion documents (e.g. Google currently only searches approximately 4.3 billion web pages),
- We are the only vendor in the marketplace that conducts manual specifically targeted research based on the subject name in addition to database scrubbing,
- No expensive subscription costs or restrictive licensing agreements,
- No processing labor required,
- Searches are conducted by an intelligence specialist skilled in open source internet research,
- No reviewing of returned records or possible hits are necessary,
- Results are reviewed by a subject matter expert,
- We exclude all false positives and they are eliminated from consideration for you,
- A more cost effective and efficient solution than on line database subscriptions,
- Certifications are provided for due diligence documentation purposes,
- Searches and reports are fully customizable,
- Direct personal contact with the primary researcher,
- Regulatory support.
We have one of the most comprehensive official sanction databases available. We currently compile on a daily basis the following types of official lists:
- Denied Persons Lists,
- Specially Designated Nations and Blocked Persons,
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments,
- Financial Sanctions,
- Foreign Terrorist Organizations,
- Terrorist Exclusion Lists,
- Terrorist Designation Lists,
- Debarred or Ineligible Firms,
- Press Releases of Significant Arrests and/or Convictions,
- US Federal, State, and County Level Civil, Criminal, and Appeal Court Records,
- US Federal Bankruptcy Court Records,
- International Sanctions,
- Statutorily Debarred Parties,
- Unauthorized Financial Institutions,
- Entities of Proliferation Concern,
- Unverified Parties Lists,
- Fraud Warnings,
- Warning Notices,
- Registered Foreign Agents,
- Corporate entities with ties to high risk countries,
- European Financial Sanctions,
- Enforcement Actions against Institutions and Individuals,
- Consolidated Lists for Freezing of Terrorist Assets,
- Fraud Registries,
- Name and Shame Lists,
- Databases of Completed International Due Diligence Investigations,
- Intelligence and Law Enforcement Agency Wants and Warrants Lists.
The above lists are drawn from the following agencies, including but not limited to:
- U.S. Central Intelligence Agency,
- Interpol,
- U.S. Department of Commerce,
- U.S. Department of the Treasury,
- Bank of England,
- International Chamber of Commerce,
- United Nations,
- European Union,
- U.S. Department of Justice,
- World Bank,
- U.S. Department of State,
- Various Foreign Regulators.
Our clients routinely report that we find “hits” when they don’t while using other vendors such as World Check, World Compliance or Lexis Nexis.
Please contact us for pricing. Both requests for information and results are returned within 24 hours.
