Compliance data sources

Smart Integrity Platform combines several data sources into a single screening layer. This page describes each capability, the entity types it applies to, and the coverage behind it — so your compliance team can evidence what was checked and against what.

Screening answers a question at a moment in time: is this person or company on a list today? Monitoring keeps asking that question for you. You submit a population once, and SIP raises an alert when someone in it is added to, or removed from, a dataset you are tracking.

Both use the same underlying datasets, so a screening result and a monitoring alert are directly comparable.

Each dataset can be queried on its own or in combination. Not every dataset applies to both entity types.

Dataset availability by entity type. Combinations are configurable per screening profile.

Political exposure is graded in three tiers by seniority and proximity to power. The tiers are consistent across every country, which is what makes cross-border risk scoring comparable. Where national law defines additional roles as politically exposed, those roles are covered for that country as well.

Adverse media is only useful if you can defend why a record exists. Every record carries a credibility grade based on the kind of evidence behind it, so you can decide which grades trigger a case in your own workflow.

Client self-disclosure is also excluded as an evidence source. A record is created from what an authority or a credible publisher states, never from what a screened party says about itself.

The screening layer draws on 933 individually curated sources across 120 jurisdictions, grouped into five regional desks. Regulatory enforcement content specifically is drawn from curated sources across 233 jurisdictions.

Adverse news is screened in the languages actually used in each market rather than in English alone. SIP maintains a mapping of 251 countries and territories to their relevant languages, with a default language per country used when no preference is set. Multilingual jurisdictions are screened across each mapped language.

Entity data answers the questions that come before screening: does this company exist, is it the company you think it is, and who ultimately stands behind it.

Returns a full business profile together with its position in a corporate family — parent, domestic ultimate and global ultimate. Use it when you need to see past the counterparty in front of you: tracing ownership up a group structure, identifying which entity is actually sanctioned when a subsidiary is not, or establishing beneficial ownership for onboarding.

A lighter check that confirms an entity exists, is trading, and matches the identifiers you hold. Suited to high-volume onboarding and supplier checks where a full profile is more than the decision requires.

Retrieves documents filed with an official register for a given entity — the underlying evidence for a file, rather than a summarised data record. Useful when an auditor or regulator asks to see the source document itself.

SIP can query Germany’s beneficial ownership register directly. Access runs through your own organisation’s register account, not through ours — German law ties inspection rights to the obliged entity performing the check.

Your account needs to be activated for the register’s inspection interface before SIP can use it. An ordinary Transparenzregister account works for manual lookups on the register website but not for automated inspection. Activation is a short, one-time task in your register account: open your actions area, request activation for the inspection interface, confirm your email address, and the status changes to activated once processed.

Requirements differ sharply between jurisdictions — which identifier is authoritative, which register is the primary source, and how fields map between them. SIP maintains a country guide for each supported jurisdiction covering local identifiers, available registers, and the field mappings SIP applies. Consult these when onboarding counterparties in a new market or reconciling identifiers across systems.

For clients integrating SIP directly, each capability above maps to an interface. Endpoint specifications and credentials are issued with your integration package.

Full lists are available to signed-in client users. Sign in with your SIP account to download.

This page describes SIP’s screening coverage as at the review date shown in each section. Coverage, cadence and retention are reviewed periodically and may change as sources are added or regulatory requirements shift.

It is a reference document, not a contractual specification. Where your agreement or integration package specifies coverage, those terms apply.

Questions about a specific jurisdiction, dataset or list? Contact your account manager, or write to [email protected].