Verified Risk Insights
“ Secure unprecedented levels of verified information about potential risks posed by individuals associated with a business process or financial transaction, partnership, investment, recruitment, or other significant decisions.
Exposing Hidden Risks
Expose an individual's current or previous involvement in fraud, bribery, corruption, money laundering, dishonest conduct, theft of commercial data, financial malpractice, or links to criminal, suspicious or illicit activities.
Checks extend to identifying concealed or undisclosed risk data internationally relating to threats, such as substance abuse, acts of domestic or violent behaviour, political, radical or ideological persuasion, or individuals likely to be considered as weak targets and therefore susceptible to temptation, external influence or criminal coercement – a tactic prevalent in data breaches.
Investigation Types
Personal Checks
Expose an individual’s current or previous involvement in fraud, bribery, corruption, money laundering, dishonest conduct, theft of commercial data, financial malpractice, or links to criminal, suspicious or illicit activities.
Investments
We help you assess investment risks and verify credibility before you commit. Our insights are designed to protect your interests and reduce uncertainty.
Bank Instrument Verification
Authentication of bank guarantees, letters of credit, bonds, and other financial instruments. Protect against forged documents, verify issuing bank legitimacy, and confirm instrument validity.
Corporate Due Diligence
Comprehensive investigation of key stakeholders before mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, or major transactions. Verify ownership, financial standing, litigation history, and reputation.
Employment
Our background checks draw on unique data sources to uncover fraud, risk, and credibility concerns. We help businesses make safer decisions before exposure occurs.
Insider Threat
Spot employees working in high threat areas susceptible to bribery or criminal coercement to avoid data breaches.
Background Check Levels
Our team of experts thoroughly examines and verify every piece of data before it is shared with our clients.
All checks international
- Search for other names used (past and present)
- Complete worldwide criminal history check (including warnings, cautions, arrests, warrants, and convictions)
- Review of associated people and organisations
- Check for direct or indirect links to fraudulent, criminal or suspicious activity and third-party risk (friends, family and associates)
- Bankruptcy and financial probity check
All checks international. Includes everything in Level 1, plus:
- Financial status
- Negative financial history checks
- Bribery, corruption or fraud checks
- Involvement in money laundering activities
- Prescribed organisation/political affiliation checks
- Barred activities and organisations checks
- Complete social media and internet presence review, identifying problematic conduct and attitudes
- Border Force interest marker check
- Politically exposed persons
- Political risk assessment
- Sanctions list (including financial sanctions)
- Reference verification
- Substance abuse programme checks
- Checked against Child/Adult barred lists
- Check for domestic violence history worldwide
- Intelligence risk analysis assessment
All checks international.
Investigations may include some or all of the following services, depending on the nature and depth of due diligence required. Solutions to assist clients with complex target profiling and wider fraud and risk-based analysis.
- 1. Assessment of targeted third-party threat — establish risk to business and investments
- 2. Known affiliations and network risk exposure
- 3. Travel pattern analysis
- 4. Cobra TS (Tactical Surveillance)
- 5. Target activity report
- 6. GPS tracking of target and known associates
- 7. On and off-shore financial profiling and analysis
- 8. Affiliations with radical or ideological persuasions
- 9. Background and reputational review
- 10. Corporate structure and registration verification
- 11. Legal and regulatory standing
- 12. Civil litigation and bankruptcy checks
- 13. Media and adverse press analysis
- 14. Legal and regulatory standing
- 15. Civil litigation and bankruptcy checks
- 16. Red notice checks
- 17. Check financial regulator warnings
- 18. Pending legal action (Personal)
- 19. FBI Most Wanted list check
- 20. Counter-Terrorism Financing (CFT)
- 21. Check for domestic violence history worldwide
- 22. Comprehensive global intelligence risk analysis assessment
Financial data reports may include:
- Identifying concealed offshore accounts
- Financial stability check (Personal)
- Complete financial history
- Bank instrument verification including verifying the location of underlying assets (e.g. MTN, SBLC, BG) and beneficiary account holders
- Bank account or financial asset verification
We can also place a financial marker of an individual check which will identify:
- 1. Suspected financial fraud linked to the target individual
- 2. Associates of the individual
- 3. Addresses used by the individual
- 4. Corporate entities controlled by or linked with the individual
- 5. Document verification if appropriate
It is estimated that the majority of bank instruments in circulation are either fraudulent or linked to wider criminal activity. IYE Global employs advanced forensic analysis to identify fraud, forgery, or criminal intent within financial instruments, documents, certificates, and agreements.
- Phase 1: Instrument Verification Verification of bank instruments (including POF, BG, SBLC, MTN, and bank statements) to determine authenticity and identify indicators of fraud or criminal activity.
- Phase 2: Beneficial Ownership Where an instrument is confirmed as genuine, global due diligence is conducted to identify ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs), determine actual control, and assess third-party risk, including links to criminal, fraudulent, or suspicious activity.
- Phase 3: Source of Funds / Source of Wealth Verification of the origin of funds to confirm legitimacy, including transactional analysis across both traditional banking systems and digital currencies.
Clear Intelligence. Real Answers.
We uncover more, verify everything, and deliver answers you can rely on.
Access to more data
Our intelligence-driven investigations provide access to 70% more information than even the most sophisticated commercial or open-source investigative technologies.
Exclusive data sources
We draw from a global network of unique and trusted partnerships, ensuring a well-rounded and highly factual perspective tailored to every case.
Verified insights
Quality is our priority. Every piece of information undergoes thorough verification by our team of experts before being shared, ensuring accuracy and reliability.
Unmatched expertise
IYE delivers unparalleled investigative capabilities, offering a comprehensive approach that spans the entire scope of modern intelligence gathering and analysis.
Our Clients
Due to confidentiality protocols, we are often unable to disclose who we work with. We are grateful to the following organisations for allowing us to showcase our valued partnerships.
Propertymark partners with IYE for background checks
Propertymark is the UK's leading membership body for property agents, representing over 17,800 members.
IYE Global act as Propertymark's preferred provider for due diligence and background checks on Board members, divisional advisory panels and regional executives.
www.propertymark.co.uk
LI-Europe partners with IYE for due diligence
LI-Europe is a leading service provider to the food manufacturing industry. Services include operational due diligence, risk, factory diagnostics, OEE Measurements, training and private equity advisory support for acquisitions.
Clients include Cadbury, McCain, GlaxoSmithKline, Weetabix, and Seabrook.
www.li-europe.comConducted to Highest Standards
All background checks are conducted in strict compliance with data protection regulations, employment law, and industry standards. Our team of experts thoroughly examines and verify every piece of data before it is shared with our clients.
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