LONDON, October 3 /PRNewswire/ --     World-Check, the global provider of risk-related intelligence
on individuals and businesses, today announced the launch of its
counter-terrorism e-newsletter, the latest addition to its series of
intelligence alert newsletters.

World-Check's terrorism intelligence briefing (T-brief) is a
free, monthly newsletter which features news, information and expert analysis
on terrorism related individuals and businesses, and the risk they pose to
financial institutions. The T-brief aims to promote awareness of anti-money
laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CFT)) developments
including details of emerging issues and expert opinion.

The first edition will feature Part One in a series of
articles by John Solomon, Head of World-Check's Terrorism and Insurgency
Unit. Entitled "Trends in Terror", the series will expose ways in which
terrorist groups are financing their activities. Part one will examine how
the unregulated sector is being increasingly targeted by terrorist groups.

International initiatives to curb and deter terrorism have
intensified over the past few years by targeting its funding and procurement
structures. As part of its efforts in raising awareness on global CFT
initiatives, World-Check is committed to sharing terrorism-related risk news
and advice with its clients and the broader community. The T-brief will form
an integral component of this endeavour by bringing together a host of
information pertinent to developing AML and CTF frameworks and systems.

The T-brief extends World-Check's two existing newsletter
offerings namely, the iBrief and "From a Different Angle" by Financial Crime
Consultant Kenneth Rijock. Since their introduction these intelligence alert
newsletters have grown to a combined circulation of more than 20 000
subscribers that include compliance officers and industry related
practitioners working in the client screening fields of Know Your Customer
(KYC) and Due Diligence systems. The newest addition is specifically aimed at
assisting those individuals who work in the CTF field.

"It is extremely rewarding to know that whilst providing
crucial intelligence and innovative tools to assist our client institutions
in avoiding unnecessary reputation and financial risk, we are also making a
positive contribution in terms of creating a database that assists
international CTF efforts" said David Leppan, CEO and founder of World-Check.
"The popularity of World-Check's two existing e-newsletters has encouraged us
to develop this additional one, which I believe meets the specific needs of
the compliance, AML and CTF communities. We have found the newsletters to be
an extremely important information tool, and we strongly encourage our
clients and those interested in receiving the most current CTF news to
sign-up to this targeted, high frequency and expert content newsletter".

Building on the tremendous successes of World-Check's
Terrorism and Insurgency Research Unit (TIRU), which has to date identified
and profiled more than 20 000 high risk individuals and businesses associated
with terrorism related activities worldwide, World-Check has developed the
T-brief to keep its clients and the broader community of compliance and
related professionals abreast of latest news and developments in CTF efforts.
The ultimate goal is to keep terrorists out of the financial system and
World-Check's structured intelligence on terrorism related risk aims to do
just this. World-Check's researchers use an analytic method that highlights
risk, identification and funding information. Discerning terrorist financing
"signatures" or patterns of specific terrorist organisations is a core task
as well as mapping relationships among various overlapping transnational
criminal networks.

About World-Check

World-Check provides its global database of heightened-risk
individuals and businesses to more than 2000 institutions, including 46 of
the world's 50 largest financial institutions and hundreds of government
agencies. The database is updated daily in real-time by World-Check's
international research team, and is derived from hundreds of thousands of
public sources. Coverage includes Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), money
launderers, fraudsters, terrorists and sanctioned entities - plus individuals
and businesses from over a dozen other high-risk categories. World-Check's
database and tools find direct application in financial compliance,
anti-money laundering (AML), Know-Your-Customer (KYC), PEP screening,
enhanced due diligence (EDD), fraud prevention, government intelligence and
other identity authentication, background screening and risk-prevention
practices.

World-Check offers a downloadable database for the automated
screening of an entire customer base, as well as a simple online service for
quick customer screening.

For further information, please visit our website
http://www@world-check.com