Marex Financial Selects Fin-Scan Hosted Compliance Solution for Sanctions and PEP Screening


LONDON, March 11 /PRNewswire/ --

Fin-Scan, a leading provider of Sanctions list and PEP compliance
screening solutions for the financial services industry, today announced that
Marex Financial has selected the Fin-Scan Hosted compliance solution to aid
in the company's goals to reduce risk and meet the heightened screening
requirements of recent Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Anti-Terrorist
Financing (ATF) regulations. The Fin-Scan solution comprises a Hosted
Screening service together with a subscription to the Fin-Scan List
Management service. The screening service will be used to check new and
existing clients against Fin-Scan's Sanctions List data as well as
World-Check's Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) due diligence data, both part
of the List Management service.

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During the evaluation process, Marex Financial outlined their key
compliance solution requirements. First and foremost, they required a
solution that would provide full integration with World-Check PEP data. As
important, to ensure that the time-consuming process of reviewing sanctions
and PEP screening results would be managed efficiently, Marex wanted
precision matching software that would minimize the number of false
positives. Additional requirements included "intelligent" Safe List
processing to avoid rechecking previously cleared individuals and entities; a
hosted case management tool that would significantly reduce administrative
effort; and an automated, comprehensive audit trail to simplify required
record keeping. And because Marex wanted to have a solution up and running as
soon as possible, rapid, cost-effective implementation was imperative.

"We are looking forward to working closely with Marex Financial," said
John Haley, Fin-Scan sales and marketing manager. "In addition to
implementing the Fin-Scan Hosted screening solution and case management tool,
Marex Financial is subscribing to our List Management service. This will
reduce the administrative overhead of monitoring and managing the various
sanctions and PEP databases, and will also minimise the risk of screening
against old versions of lists, which would significantly reduce accuracy."

Used in thousands of projects worldwide, Fin-Scan's robust matching
engine facilitates the efficient and accurate screening of large volumes of
records with very precise, user-configurable rules for flagging suspicious
records. This process greatly reduces the risk associated with missing real
matches (false negatives), and minimises the time and cost associated with
researching false matches (false positives).

About MAREX GROUP

MAREX Group Ltd was formed in December 2005 by an affiliate of Marathon
Asset Management LLC ("Marathon"). Marathon, headquartered in New York, is a
global alternative investment asset management company with over US$10
Billion in capital under management. MAREX Group provides Brokerage, Trading
and Technology services through a number of brands:

MAREX Financial Limited is a leading independent Broker specialising in
Commodities, Financial Futures and Foreign Exchange. MFL provides Broking
services and E-Trading platforms, from London and Geneva. MFL Clients include
Banks, Corporate CTA's, Hedge Funds, Introducing Brokers and professional
individuals.

MAREX Trading was first established in 1998 and is one of Europe's
premier Electronic Trading businesses. MT has 150 trading personnel operating
from offices in London and Gibraltar. MAREX Trading is a division of MFL.

Easyscreen has been developing trading technology for the Futures Markets
since it was established in 1998. Easyscreen now has over 400 active platform
users. Easyscreen is a division of the MAREX Group.

About Fin-Scan

Fin-Scan protects organisations against non-compliance with the
world-class data quality and data matching capabilities that are the
cornerstone of all Innovative Systems, Inc. products and services.

Fin-Scan helps financial services organisations worldwide meet the
requirements of international government regulatory agencies by providing the
most advanced sanctions list and PEP compliance solutions available. Fin-Scan
offers 24/7/365 list management; licensed, hosted, or transactional screening
options; and automated due diligence reports to help ensure the most
effective and accurate compliance for our clients. The Fin-Scan Web site is
located at www.fin-scan.com.

About Innovative Systems, Inc. (ISI)

Innovative Systems is a world leader in delivering enterprise customer
information solutions to organisations whose success depends on a complete
and accurate understanding of their customers. ISI's data quality and data
management solutions include the i/Lytics(R) Enterprise Data Quality Suite;
i/Lytics GLOBAL(TM) a CASS-certified address verification solution; and
Synchronos(TM), a master data management solution for enterprise customer
data.

Since 1968, companies worldwide have relied on ISI's data quality
software, systems integration, database solutions and customer data quality
audits. The company has set the standard for data quality management in
thousands of applications in more than 30 countries. ISI maintains
headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with European operations based in
London. The Innovative Web site is located at www.innovativesystems.com.

Trademark Noticei/Lytics, i/Lytics GLOBAL, Synchronos and Fin-Scan are
trademarks of Innovative Systems, Inc. All other products or company names
are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their
respective owners.

Fin-Scan Contact:
    John Haley
    Sales & Marketing Manager (EMEA)
    +44-0-1483-730446
    jhaley@innovativesystems.com

    Web site: http://www.innovativesystems.com
              http://www.fin-scan.com

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