IDD+ Scope and Coverage

Overview

Instant Due Diligence Plus (IDD+) provides everything that is included in Instant Due Diligence (IDD), and much more. With the largest and most comprehensive global database of its kind, IDD+ gives you in-depth analysis aimed at protecting your organization from doing business with third parties who may not only be on Sanctions or Watchlists, but might be involved in Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Fraud or many more events.

IDD+ helps you to screen more effectively. Its combination of comprehensive data and categorisation means you can filter content by risk type, risk stage and risk age, based on relevance and your own risk profiles, resulting in more precision, fewer false positive results and create more efficiency for your risk lifecycle.

What is included in IDD+?

• Adverse Media, the largest collection of negative news in the industry.
  
  
• 900+ global lists including sanctions, watch-lists, debarment, law enforcement, and other lists.
  
  
• Sanctions Connect – Sanctions Connect is a dataset that provides information on the individuals and organizations associated with sanctioned entities. Covering all entities sanctioned under OFAC, the data set establishes the connections to individuals and organisations spanning over 190 countries.
  
  
• 3.1m+ PEPS in PEP Connect, including office holders, close family and associates, position history, and a unique PEP rating that factors PEP level, PEP type, country, and existence of any negative media or lists.
  
  
• Coverage of 60+ categories of risk ranging from high profile risks like money laundering, terrorism, organized crime, fraud and many others, pulled from global negative media on a daily basis.
  
  
• More than 120,000 sources of information for the different risk categories.
  
  
• Tracking of each risk from the earliest indication, e.g. rumour and accusation, through conviction, providing early warning indicators of risk.

Benefits for Users

Global news coverage – the largest collection of negative news in the industry, Benefit from global media coverage ranging from large publications to those with low or regional circulation – more than 120,000 trusted media sources in all. We cover 240 countries and territories and over 70 languages. The database has around 20 years of content, and includes more than 21 million risk profiles. It is updated daily, with typically around 10,000 risk profiles added or updated every day.

Global watch list coverage, The database integrates more than 900 governmental regulatory lists and watch lists, local, state and federal sources across the globe. It also includes specialised databases covering sanctions, Iran, the Panama Papers and marijuana-related business.

Precise filters: precise alerts, The highly categorised articles include more than 50 risk codes and 30 risk stages for precise filtering and precise alerting. Detailed categories include terrorism, human trafficking, organized crime, cybercrime and environmental crime. These categories align to the AML6 or 6AMLD (sixth Anti-money Laundering Directive) Predicate Offences and the designated categories of offences in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations.