Does Using Google Search Strings for Adverse Media Screening Work?
Adverse media is increasingly important for financial institutions and global corporates. Google...
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Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO)
The concept of “Ultimate Beneficial Owner” (or UBO) is critically important in corporate law and...
Guide to Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)
Politically exposed persons are political or public figures and high-powered senior executives,...
Sigma Ratings Expands to include 500,000 High-Risk Addresses
Sigma Ratings has grown our high-risk addresses database to half a million, which is a massive leap...
Sigma Ratings launches ongoing KYB & KYC monitoring
Delivering ongoing monitoring to clients is a massive evolution of Sigma Ratings' platform, and our...
Streamlined Sigma news alerts for added efficiency
At Sigma, the product improvements we invest in aim to deliver a flawless experience to our user...
Sigma Enhances Risk Curation Capabilities to Improve Efficiency & Scale
As our journey to transform compliance and due diligence teams’ workflows continues, we’ve recently...
The Tax Justice Network Releases the 2022 Financial Secrecy Index
This week, the Tax Justice Network (“TJN”) released the 2022 Financial Secrecy Index, which ranks...
What is the Difference between Shell, Shelf and Front Company
After the release of the Panama Papers in 2015, the terms “shell company” or “shelf company” became...
Sigma Releases New Self Service Enhancements | Sigma Monitoring
Sigma Monitoring has been further enhanced to offer new self-service capabilities that allow for...
How to Identify a Shell Company and the Associated Red Flags
In the aftermath of the 2016 Panama Papers data leak, the term "shell company" rapidly emerged in...
Sigma Expands Address Risk Coverage with Top 1,000 Shared Addresses
Hello Sigma network! We continue to roll out new product enhancements across our product offerings...
Top 10 Compliance Podcasts for May 2022
Need some inspiration for Fincrime, compliance and risk podcasts in May 2022? Here's what the Sigma...
FATF Effectiveness Report
Last week, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) released its Report on the State of Effectiveness...
Sigma Releases Expanded Russia Focused Datasets
Sigma continues to provide updated, improved screening for clients interested in understanding...
List of Jurisdictions with a Golden Visa Program
Golden Passports or Visas, a citizenship by investment or residency by investment program, has...
Top 10 Compliance Podcasts for April 2022
Need some inspiration for Fincrime, compliance and risk podcasts in April 2022? Here's what the...
Russian Oligarch's Offshore Shell Company Network
This week, an investigation by Buzzfeed revealed that the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich...
Sigma Ratings Makes Key Russia Data Available to Help Users Uncover Hidden Risks
Over the past week, the world has watched the crisis unfolding in Ukraine in disbelief, anger and...
Top 10 Compliance Podcasts for March 2022
Need some inspiration for Fincrime, compliance and risk podcasts in March 2022? Here's what the...
WSJ: U.S. Treasury’s Beneficial Ownership Rules Stirs Debate
This week, the WSJ reported that the U.S. Treasury is “facing a wide range of views on the details...
