REFINITIV® WORLD-CHECK®

RISK INTELLIGENCE
Special Interest Categories feature

Overview
Adverse media screening forms a crucial part of customer or third-party due diligence processes to uncover
potential risks indicating a party’s alleged involvement in criminal activity, which could give rise to financial,
reputational or other types of risks to your business.
Refinitiv® World-Check® Risk Intelligence data combines the best of structured and unstructured adverse
media data to help you to comply with legislation and protect your organisations from financial crime and
reputational harm.

Sanction, watch, regulatory and

law enforcement lists.

Official
lists

Politically exposed persons, relative

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or close associate, state-owned entities

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PEPs, RCAs, and state-invested entities.

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SOEs and SIEs

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Content captured in World-Check data,

reported in the reputable media as being
Structured adverse media content accused/questioned/investigated/arrested/
charged/convicted of an action which fits
the World-Check inclusion criteria.

Unstructured text-based content such as

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Media check news content, provides coverage of media

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All adverse media content including content including financial crime and
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reputational risks.
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non-financial (reputational risks)

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Adverse media content included in the Refinitiv World-Check Risk Intelligence database is associated to
pre- and post-conviction stages.
With the introduction of our Special Interest Category feature, you will now be able to get an even more
granular view of the reason for the record’s inclusion and its associated potential risk or risks.

Helping to solve the challenge

Based on the regulatory guidance around media screening requirements and following consultation with
our customers, to find out what risk areas were of concern and relevance to them and their business, we
have created a sophisticated taxonomy or categorisation scheme that applies to records within World-Check
including but not limited to adverse media records.
Using a combination of AI, natural language processing, machine learning, specific taxonomy and human
review, records have been tagged according to the risk category or categories they represent.

The Special Interest Categories at a Glance

Absconder or Abuse of Office Aiding and Aircraft Hijacking Antitrust Violation Arms and
Fugitive Abetting and Aviation or Unlawful Ammunition
Crime Competition Possession
Arms and Arson and Breach of Bribery and Conspiracy or Consumer
Ammunition Destruction of Fiduciary Duty Corruption Collusion Protection
Trafficking Property Violation
Control or Counterfeiting or Crimes Against Cybercrime Data Privacy Deported or
Regulation Piracy the State Breach Exiled
Violation
Disciplinary Disqualified and Dissolved Energy Crime Environmental Explicit Sanctions
Action Debarred Company Crime
Exploitation of Extortion Financial Services Forced and Slave Forgery and Former Explicit
Children Warning Labour Uttering Sanctions
Former Implicit Fraud Frozen and Hate Crime Healthcare Fraud Human Rights
Sanctions Seized Assets Violation
Human Trafficking Illegal Gambling Illegal Immigration Illegal Possession Illegal Restraint Implicit Sanctions
or Sale or Kidnapping
Insider Trading Insolvency, IP Rights Labour Rights Licence Money
Liquidation or Infringement Violation Revocation Laundering
Bankruptcy
Narcotics Obstruction of Organised Crime Other Pharmaceutical Sanctions Related
Trafficking Justice Trafficking
Securities Sexual Smuggling Tax and Customs Tender Violation Terror Related
Violation Exploitation Violation and Restrictions
Theft and Trafficking in Travel or Visa Unlawful Money Violent Crime War Crime
Embezzlement Stolen Goods Restriction Lending
Wildlife Crime
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Clear indicators of potential risk

The Special Interest Categories feature allows you to select and filter the special interest categories that
have relevance to your business’s risk-based approach and legal/regulatory requirements. The feature will be
available across all delivery methods, platforms, APIs and data feeds.
By being able to select topics of interest, and to essentially slice and dice the data according to your specific
needs, you will get a far more granular view of potential risks associated to both the pre- and post-conviction
records included in the World-Check database. This targeted approach to screening, with the ability to
exclude topics from your screening universe, has the added benefit of reducing false positives and alleviating
remediation workload.
Records returned in your (screening/name matching) results will have clear indicators – the indicators
vary according to your delivery methods – together with the description of the special interest categories
associated to them.

Benefits at a glance
• Fully customisable
You have the ability to select specific special interest topics to include in your screening criteria in line with
your company screening needs and regulatory requirements.
• Identify and assess risk faster
Records have clear indicators together with the description of the special interest categories associated
to them.
• Reduce false positives and alleviate remediation workload
By filtering and selecting specific risk areas, you are able to ensure that you screen against only the
potential risk areas that are of concern to your business, ensuring targeted results.
• Uncover other potential risk information
Results include any special risk categories associated to a record, even if that category was not selected
at the outset, to provide a full overview of potential risks.
• Varied delivery methods
The feature is available across all delivery options, include data feeds, APIs and platforms.
• Peace of mind
Partner with a trusted provider that has been delivering timely and accurate adverse media data for over
two decades and is used by the world’s largest financial institutions and companies.
To unlock the feature’s full capabilities, you will need to be a World-Check Advanced level subscriber. To find
out more, speak to your representative.

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