NorthRow

AML and risk for the legal sector

Utilise robust risk assessments to mitigate potential threats.

Automate the entire AML process to improve your firm’s risk assessment with up to 95% auto-decision rate, giving fee earners freedom and the people dealing with compliance to focus on the cases that require further investigation.

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Join legal firms such as Dragon Argent, Kindleworth and Lanyon Bowdler who are mitigating onboarding risks and freeing up fee earners from compliance.

The biggest AML challenges in the legal market

INADEQUATE SOURCE OF FUNDS CHECKS

SoF can often bring low-quality data and complex information requirements while balancing verification.

SRA REPORTING REGULATIONS

SRA requires firms to regularly report on AML processes, sanctions, and suspicious activity to ensure compliance.

CLIENT RISK ASSESSMENTS

AML is crucial for mandatory firm-wide risk assessments, but they are often inadequate, increasing risk exposure.

FEE EARNERS’ REVENUE GENERATION

Fee earners can be drawn into compliance, taking away their time to bring in additional revenue.

OPERATING IN MULTIPLE JURISDICTIONS

Jurisdictions with varied regulations create greater compliance challenges for firms and their clients.

MANUAL CLIENT ONBOARDING

Manual client onboarding often falls to practice managers or admin roles, leading to neglect.

51%

of risk assessments fail to meet standards

1 in 3

firms are only fully AML compliant

£290k*

worth of fines issued by the SRA in 2024

47%

don’t screen existing clients for sanctions

439*

official warnings issued in the past year

How NorthRow helps

Become compliant with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)

By integrating advanced technology and automation, NorthRow empowers the legal market to efficiently conduct risk management, ongoing monitoring, and verify client identities in real-time.

Automate Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) processes

Automating up to 95% of decisions reduces manual work for fee earners, allowing your team to focus on high-risk cases while ensuring faster, more accurate compliance.

Stay protected with tailored risk management 

Be aware of potential threats with custom risk assessments tailored to your firm’s needs and real-time alerts that provide early warnings to keep out of regulatory trouble.

Continuous compliance with ongoing monitoring

Track risks and schedule regular reviews, ensuring your firm stays fully aligned with evolving regulations, shifting client profiles, and compliance requirements.

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Your firm-wide risk assessment is the first document you should prepare, as it drives all subsequent documents. While the regulator provides a template, you’re not required to use it. The SRA doesn’t like firms using the template without customisation, so make it bespoke to your business.

Legal firm AML expert

Eloise Butterworth

Compliance Manager at Lester Aldridge LLP

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Assess AML Risk

Agile risk management with real-time ongoing monitoring

Evaluate client risk using RAG (Red, Amber, Green) scoring for real-time monitoring of activities and flagging any issues to enhance your risk assessments.

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Ensure Regulatory Adherence

Achieve complete KYC and KYB for global compliance

Simplify due diligence by verifying client identities, navigating complex ownership structures, screening for Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), and checking global sanctions lists.

Global Compliance

Accelerate onboarding across borders with biometric verification

Streamline onboarding with secure biometric ID verification and document validation, ensuring seamless client management across multiple jurisdictions.

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Impact in numbers: elevating legal compliance

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

Know your customer identification

Verify clients in seconds using  biometric facial recognition and UBO data. Eliminate manual tasks across data sources with automated KYC processes aiding due diligence.

Effortless case management

A central compliance tool that delivers dynamic client records, provides MLROs and risk teams with full oversight, and ensures smoother internal and external audits.

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Automated screening with rich data

Take advantage of extensive data sources to seamlessly automate the screening process for PEPs, sanctions, and adverse media, ensuring thorough due diligence.

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Making a positive change towards Knight Frank’s client onboarding, improving cost, time and risk.

NorthRow’s digital transformation of Knight Frank’s client compliance process has seen their onboarding time accelerate, offering clients a friction-free experience whilst meeting their compliance obligations.

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LegalTech 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.

Book your free demo of our ID&V, KYC, KYB, and AML compliance solution and discover how we’ve turned compliance into a competitive advantage for companies like Knight Frank, CloudPay, and Yorkshire Building Society.

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