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Helping A Leading Estate Agent ensure AML & Right to Rent Compliance

Helping A Leading Estate Agent ensure AML & Right to Rent Compliance

Estate and lettings agents are under increasing pressure to implement risk mitigation strategies to ensure they are compliant with AML and Right to Rent regulations. NorthRow offers leading estate agents in the UK the ability to leverage cutting- edge technology to automate AML, KYC and IDV checks, streamlining the client onboarding journey. Learn more.

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What Are the 7 Biggest Mistakes Firms Are Making When it Comes to PEPs & Sanctions?

What Are the 7 Biggest Mistakes Firms Are Making When it Comes to PEPs & Sanctions?

There is still a great deal of confusion surrounding the client due diligence process.One area that causes the greatest confusion relates to the 4MLD approach to Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and Sanctions checks on individuals and entities. The following represent 7 main misconceptions relating to PEPS and Sanctions Compliance. … Read More

How APIs Can Transform Your Regulated Business

How APIs Can Transform Your Regulated Business

A growing number of regulated businesses today are now using data through API technology to drive growth, to improve operations and to help ensure compliance with multiple regulations. Read NorthRow’s list of the top benefits from API integrations that will transform your business. … Read More

Politically Exposed Person (PEP)

Politically Exposed Person (PEP) | Low vs. high-risk

PEPs (Politically Exposed Persons) pose higher financial crime risks due to their positions. Effective PEP screening, enhanced due diligence, and compliance tools are essential to mitigate risks while enabling informed business decisions. … Read More

top compliance trends

Top Compliance Trends You Need to Know for 2019

Money-laundering and compliance failures within large banks and institutions dominated the financial news in 2018. To help you not fall foul of the regulations in 2019, we have gathered a list of top 9 compliance trends this year and how they may impact how you do business. … Read More

NorthRow & GBG Partner to Offer Broader Employee Background Checking Solution

NorthRow & GBG Partner to Offer Broader Employee Background Checking Solution

GBG, the global specialist in Identity Data Intelligence, has partnered with NorthRow, a leading regulation-technology compliance software provider, to provide employers with an app-based solution to manage employees’ Right to Work status. … Read More

Crypto Asset’s Pathway to the Mainstream through AML and KYC Compliance

Crypto Asset’s Pathway to the Mainstream through AML and KYC Compliance

If you are looking to start a crypto asset business it is important to ensure that proper procedures are put in place from day one. NorthRow provides AML and KYC compliance single API. … Read More

Client Suitability & Appropriateness

Client Suitability & Appropriateness

Whether a financial institution is offering investment advice, portfolio management or providing non-advice services such as execution-only services, the relevant suitability and/or appropriateness checks must always be carried out. NorthRow has partnered with muinmos to automate client suitability and appropriateness checks. … Read More

KYC AML check

Why do businesses need to do KYC AML checks?

The UK enforces strict AML and KYC regulations, requiring businesses to verify customer identities and monitor transactions. Compliance ensures protection against financial crimes and avoids penalties, with automation improving efficiency. … Read More

NorthRow to Verify International Users for UK Open Banking

NorthRow to Verify International Users for UK Open Banking

NorthRow (a Contego solutions business), the RegTech and compliance specialist, has been chosen by the UK’s Open Banking Implementation Entity (the ‘OBIE’), to verify its users in the European Union and the rest of the world. The move follows the successful implementation of verification processes for UK users, streamlining services for customers. The new partnership will see NorthRow verify users throughout the EU and the fast-emerging markets in Asia Pacific, including: India, the Philippines and Australia/New Zealand. … Read More