Screening with LSEG World-Check
Every submitted case is screened against LSEG World-Check One: sanctions lists, politically exposed persons, law and regulatory enforcement, and other risk lists. This page explains what is screened and how to read what comes back.
What Vindex screens
When a case is submitted, Vindex screens the customer, as an individual or an organisation, in World-Check One. For a company it also screens every director and beneficial owner as an individual. The results are on the case's Evidence tab, under five LSEG checks:
PEP and watchlists
Sanctions
Media Check
Ongoing screening
UBO Check
A person is screened with their name and, where the case has them, their date of birth, gender and nationality, which narrow the results. A company is screened on its name.
Reading a match
A possible match is a World-Check record whose name is like the customer's. It is not a finding: it stays a possible match until a person has looked at it and decided whether it is the same party.
HARBOURVALE TRADING FZE
Organisation · United Arab Emirates · first listed 2019
Name
Country
Registration number
Why it is listed: Sanctions · Other bodies · Regulatory enforcement. Lists: two national sanctions lists, one regulator, one special-interest category.
Example
A customer called Jane Example screens with an exact match to a Jane Example on a regulator's list. The record's date of birth is 1962; the customer declared 1989. The name is exact, but the details disagree: almost certainly a different person, which the reviewer records as the disposition.
Sanctions, implicit sanctions and PEPs
Vindex keeps three kinds of risk apart, because they call for different responses:
The full record
The screen returns a summary of each match. The full World-Check record says much more, and Vindex loads it for the strongest matches automatically. Open a match to see it in tabs:
Use it whena weaker match has no full record yet and you need its details to decide.
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Open the match on the Evidence tab.
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Press Load the full record. It is kept, so it is only ever loaded once.
Directors and owners
On a company case, each director and beneficial owner is screened in their own right and listed under People, with their roles, their holding, and their matches. A company with a clean name can still be owned by someone on a sanctions list, so read this section on every organisation case.
Tip
A person screened without a date of birth tends to come back with many weak matches. Ask the customer for it rather than clearing each one by name alone.
Ongoing screening
With ongoing screening on, World-Check keeps watching a customer after the case is screened, and Vindex checks for anything new: a fresh sanctions listing, a change to a record. A new match is added to the case and flagged, so a customer who was clear at onboarding is not quietly forgotten.
The LSEG allowance
Each screen is one call to LSEG, and so is each full record loaded. On a trial account the calls are counted against a fixed allowance, and Vindex refuses a call rather than go over it. Screening a company and three owners uses four calls; loading three full records uses three more.
Good to know
A screen is saved as a case in the World-Check One account too, so the full list of matches, beyond the 25 Vindex keeps, is always there.
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