LONDON, January 23 /PRNewswire/ --     World-Check, the global industry pioneer and leading provider
of highly-structured open source risk intelligence, is proud to announce that
it recently celebrated its 2500th client sign-up(1). On an annual basis 19
million names(2) are manually queried by our client base in 153 countries
within World-Check Online, while many millions more are automatically
screened against the World-Check Data-file.

Founded in late 2000, World-Check was originally created to
address the Swiss financial industry's Know Your Customer (KYC) and
risk-reduction requirements. Today, World-Check's database is relied upon by
47 of the world's 50 largest financial institutions and more than 200
regulatory and enforcement agencies across the globe, including 70% of the
Egmont Group's Financial Intelligence Units. Clients also include businesses
in the insurance, legal, gaming, aviation, real estate, consultancy, natural
resources and accounting sectors, to name but a few.

World-Check's unique database includes profiles of known money
launderers, fraudsters, Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), terrorists,
narcotics traffickers, shell banks, sanctioned entities and many other
categories of high risk individuals and entities. Positioned at the forefront
of international risk research and intelligence, World-Check regularly
profiles heightened risk individuals and businesses years before their names
appear on official sanction lists, making the database the ultimate "early
warning system" against regulatory and reputation risk. This reliability is
testament to the company's ongoing investment in technology and it's
strategically placed international team of multilingual researchers.

"We are extremely excited about our exceptional growth in such
a short period of time, and are committed to continued investment in
innovative solutions, research specialists and value-added services based on
our client needs," said David Leppan, CEO and founder of World-Check.
"World-Check has played a critical role as the industry leader in the AML,
KYC and CTF fields, and our continued client and partner growth confirms that
we lead the market. In addition our 97% annual client renewal rate for the
past seven years confirms that our database is unparalleled in depth,
reliability and coverage."

About World-Check

World-Check provides its global open source intelligence
database to more than 2500 institutions in 153 countries, including 47 of the
world's 50 largest financial institutions, and 200+ enforcement and
regulatory agencies in 90 countries. 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.

For more information about World-Check go to
http://www.world-check.com

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(1) This number reflects actual institutions and not their branch or
subsidiary networks.

(2) World-Check, as certified by KPMG, is unaware of the actual names
(search terms) clients search for within World-Check.