As global regulations tighten, enhanced due diligence is crucial to protecting your organisation from financial, regulatory, or reputational risks. Creditsafe’s PEPs and Sanctions Screening tools provide real-time checks across extensive global PEP and Sanctions databases, ensuring you stay compliant while effectively managing high-risk individuals linked to bribery, corruption, and financial crimes.
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Comply with regulations and ensure AML compliance with PEPs & Sanctions checks.
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Comprehensive coverage
Effortlessly identify potential risks by screening clients against 1,000+ global data sources, including sanctions lists and PEPs. Automating compliance saves time, reduces manual checks, and ensures protection from high-risk entities.
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Ongoing Monitoring
Meet regulatory compliance with real-time checks and continuous client monitoring. Creditsafe’s solution simplifies compliance, saves time, and identifies emerging risks early, safeguarding your business against regulatory breaches and illicit activity.
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Robust Global PEPs Database
Access over 800,000 global election records in a single search. Verified by local research teams, it reduces manual effort and enhances decision-making with actionable insights that go beyond raw data.
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Crime and Watchlist Data
Reduce risk with access to 8,000+ global records, including Interpol Red Notices and FBI Most Wanted. Quickly identify high-risk connections and criminal activity to strengthen compliance efforts to protect your business.
Which lists are included in our PEPs & Sanctions data?
Our Politically Exposed Persons & Sanctions checks search against over 3000 databases including:
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HM Treasury Sanctions List
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Department of State
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Interpol Most Wanted
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EU Consolidated Sanctions List
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U.S. Treasury PML List
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Adverse media
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OCC Shell Bank List
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CBI List (The Central Bureau of Investigation)
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ICE List (U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement)
Why use Creditsafe for PEPs & Sanctions checks?
Quickly manage regulatory obligations and protect your business with a robust due diligence platform designed to surface insight in seconds while driving cost savings and efficiency gains.
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Digital audit trail
Secure your records with an automated digital audit trail that minimises document loss and storage costs. Track each client interaction in real-time to ensure transparency, prevent manual errors, and enable fast access to historical data whenever needed.
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Integrated results
Complete checks in seconds, instantly flagging Sanctions or PEPs to minimise risk. Integrated into your existing workflows, our solution provides reliable, actionable screening, helping you stay ahead of regulatory changes and mitigate risks with ease.
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Shorter time to value
Speed up onboarding and reduce customer drop-offs caused by slow processes. Instant screening cuts onboarding time from days to minutes, creating a smoother and more efficient customer journey.
6AMLD Compliance
The EU’s 6th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (6AMLD), effective from 6th December 2020, mandates full implementation by all relevant financial institutions by 3rd June 2021.
Designed to strengthen the fight against money laundering and terrorism financing, 6AMLD broadens the scope of existing legislation and introduces tougher criminal penalties, empowering financial institutions and authorities to take more decisive action.
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Frequently asked questions
What are PEPs?
This check will allow you to see if a company has been sanctioned or if a politically exposed person has a connection to the company. There is no unique definition of a PEP. In fact, the criteria varies from country to country and even company to company. A PEP does not necessarily mean someone who is involved in politics, it could include immediate family members, close business associates or even senior executives. These are key individuals and are important to check as a PEP presents a higher risk for potential bribery and corruption due to their position in society and the influence they may hold.
Why do you need PEPs and Sanction checks?
Standard AML checks do not screen clients against Her Majesty’s Treasury (HMT) list, while PEPs are not necessarily included in financial sanctions checks. FCA registered companies are required to run the checks as day-to-day due diligence, not only to reduce their own company’s risk exposure, but to also comply with the current guidelines and stay within the law. It is also the responsibility of the credit or compliance department to carry out proper due diligence when investigating new clients. The guidelines set by the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group (JMLSG) state that every Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) registered company has to be fully aware of whom they deal with under AML and ‘Know Your Customer’ (KYC) guidelines. With a 30-40% increase every year in the PEPs list alone, it is important to screen new and existing clients to make sure they are compliant with the AML guidelines.
What are Sanctions?
If a company has been sanctioned, they have been issued a penalty by law for failure to comply with a court order, law or regulation. It is illegal to deal with a sanctioned company, so it is important to run a check on them and be compliant with the current guidelines set in place. If your company deals with a sanctioned company, even if you are a limited company, you may be personally prosecuted for this and could risk going to jail.
Why do I need to perform ongoing monitoring?
Your customers' circumstances can change frequently, meaning that a historic check may not reflect a customer’s status now. For this reason, ongoing monitoring is a critical component of your compliance with the 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive.
There is no definitive guideline to say how often your PEPs and Sanctions should be updated. However, our ongoing monitoring service will check the status of the customers you monitor on a daily basis to keep your records up to date.