NorthRow

Optimising onboarding for investment banks

Refining client journeys with robust onboarding and monitoring

Facilitate operations to minimise your daily compliance costs and ensure adherence to evolving regulations to navigate the growing regulatory scrutiny investment banks face without compromising efficiency.

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Join other investment banks who have reduced their compliance costs and improved operational efficiency.

The biggest AML challenges in investment banking

SUSTAINABILITY AND ESG INVESTMENTS

As regulatory frameworks around ESG tighten globally, banks must adapt their portfolios to demands.

TECHNOLOGICAL INTEGRATION

AI improves the detection of suspicious activities but needs careful integration to avoid privacy issues and false positives.

REGULATORY PRESSURES

Capital and risk management requirements, like the Basel III endgame, pose challenges to ROE and compliance.

GEOPOLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY

Volatility in global markets, driven by geopolitical tensions and inflation, adds layers of uncertainty to deal-making.

ENHANCED DUE DILIGENCE (EDD) AND ONBOARDING

Banks are required to implement EDD on high-risk clients, particularly in complex cross-border deals.

CYBERSECURITY THREATS

Ensuring robust cybersecurity measures is critical, especially with rising costs linked to data breaches​.

£31.6 BN

will be spent to upgrade technology

£94.8 BN

global revenues projected

£2.08 TN

in available capital for M&A recovery

£166 BN

raised for private equity in H1

£8.3 BN

investment in compliance systems

How NorthRow helps

Ameliorate your AML framework to verify investors and strengthen Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR)

Harness technology to efficiently identify risks while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Embrace strategies to foster trust and transparency in your investment practices.

Strengthen regulatory transparency with audit trails

Increase transparency by effectively demonstrating to regulators that you maintain a comprehensive compliance audit trail of all monitoring and investigative activities.

Instant alerts for PEPs and Sanctions risk monitoring

Automated alerts notify companies and individuals of risk profile changes, enabling monitoring of political exposure, sanctions, or adverse media for proactive risk management.

Seamless customer experience in onboarding and compliance

Simplify Know Your Customer and client onboarding processes with ease, minimising manual tasks through our flexible APIs designed to meet rigorous Anti-Money Laundering standards.

investments people

The single most crucial factor in sanctions compliance is properly conducting due diligence. It’s important to emphasise ‘properly’ here, as while conducting due diligence may be easy, doing it well is not. It requires the ability to navigate complex corporate structures.

investment banking expert

Federica Taccogna

Managing Director at Interpath Advisory

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Verification Streamlined

Centralise your AML and KYC Processes for compliance efficiency

Consolidate all your AML and KYC checks in a single platform to ensure compliance with the latest regulations while streamlining the identity verification process.

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Effortless Compliance

Automated EDD for comprehensive risk assessment

Gather data and analysis to facilitate risk assessments of high-risk clients, including real-time monitoring of PEP and sanction status changes.

Building Trust

Unveiling business integrity with Know Your Business verification

Reduce onboarding times, screen and identify financial and shareholder information, as well as UBO details for even the most complex corporate structures.

KYB verification

Impact in numbers: elevating compliance for investment firms

We bring together global market-leading data sources and verification technologies into a single, simple interface, accessible anywhere, any time.

< 4%

Abandonment rate

220+

Jurisdictions

500m+

Entities available

13,000

Documents supported

1.5m

Daily news articles

< 2%

False positive rate

Combat Fraud with EDD

Utilise client screenings against global watchlists, sanctions, and PEPs alongside EDD to effectively detect suspicious activities and strengthen compliance.

Navigate Investment Regulations

Mitigate risks while safeguarding against penalties and reputational harm by overcoming the ever-changing regulations for AML and CFT across different jurisdictions.

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Reduce Compliance Costs

Optimise routine tasks with a strategic risk-based approach, allowing you to allocate valuable resources to more complex cases that demand professional expertise.

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Empowering Open Banking to set the benchmark for secure management of customer financial data.

Open Banking sought a technology partner to streamline client onboarding for third-party developers accessing their network, ensuring comprehensive verification checks to maintain the highest security standards.

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Investment banking FAQs

For all of your burning questions, take a look at our FAQs. Can’t find the answer to your question? Feel free to contact us directly and we’ll be happy to help.
What data providers do you use?

NorthRow integrates with lots of renowned global data providers, corporate registries and premium data sources, providing unrivalled access to the data your business needs.

Our key data providers are as follows:

Dun & Bradstreet who are leading company data and UBO database specialists, featuring over 500 million global company entities.

Lexis Nexis is our core provider of UK identity and address validation data, such as credit reference agency and electoral register data.

Acuris (often referred to as C6), is our core provider of risk data. Specifically for PEPs, sanctions and adverse media.

Creditsafe is our supplier for KYB/company data. Often used for corporate ownership and structure information. This includes company directors, shareholders and other interested parties as well as where a company is based and its business activities to help support identification of UBOs.

More information can be be found here.

What do you do with our data?
At NorthRow we take security very seriously, we adhere to the highest, rigorous standards for data, privacy and security compliance. The data you send us is only used to verify your client’s identities and businesses. We never use it for any other purpose. We send it to third parties to complete the checks, and we can share our list of sub-processors with you so that you have full transparency of how your data is used.
Where is our data held?
Our products are tested continuously throughout our development process by a team of internal QA engineers. In addition to the application testing we regularly scan for vulnerabilities using third party services and undertake annual detailed penetration testing. We continually monitor new vulnerabilities and proactively work to ensure that we are protected.
How do you test your services?
Our products are tested continuously throughout our development process by a team of internal QA engineers. In addition to the application testing we regularly scan for vulnerabilities using third party services and undertake annual detailed penetration testing. We continually monitor new vulnerabilities and proactively work to ensure that we are protected.
What about service availability?
NorthRow makes use of the Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure to ensure we do not have a single point of failure in our architecture. All the data we hold and the services we provide are backed up at regular intervals to protect against disruption or loss of data.
What support is included?

From the moment we work together we hold your hand throughout the implementation process and continue through to ‘go live’.

Excellent customer service and continued support are all part of partnering with NorthRow. You can always email our support team on support@northrow.com if you have any queries.

All Premium and Enterprise package customers receive a dedicated account manager who will keep in touch to ensure you get the most out of our software.

How fast can I be up and running?
Typically, we get our clients live within 14 days of them signing a contract.

We’ve worked with hundreds of regulated businesses. Let’s work together.

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