LONDON, September 1 /PRNewswire/ --     World-Check's Board of Directors has today announced the
appointment of Daniel Peak to the position of Chief Executive Officer. This
appointment marks the culmination of a carefully architected expansion of
World-Check's management team that will lead this market-pioneering company
through its continued rapid growth.

Established in 2000, the World-Check database tracks the identities and
activities of heightened-risk individuals and businesses from over 240
countries and territories. World-Check is the recognized market pioneer in
providing risk intelligence to regulated industries to help meet their
regulatory and risk management requirements.

David Leppan, Founder and former CEO of World-Check, will
continue to play an active role in the company as Chairman of the Board.

"I have had the privilege of leading this special company and
team from its inception to its 3,000th client," said David Leppan,
World-Check's newly appointed Chairman. "At my direction, the board launched
an exhaustive search for a proven professional qualified to lead this dynamic
company through its sustained rapid growth. I have worked with Dan for well
over a decade and I am confident that his unique combination of leadership
experience and knowledge of the company, its clients and market will enable
World-Check to continue its unparalleled growth-breaking and setting new
goals as it goes forward."

Mr. Peak joined World-Check in 2004 as senior business
development consultant for North America and the Caribbean. He has extensive
senior leadership experience having managed a diverse group of organisations
of varying sizes with a focus on data, content technology, services, and
software development.

Mr. Peak joined World-Check from Thomson Sheshunoff where he
was General Manager from 2000. Prior to this position he served as Managing
Director for Thompson Financial Publishing from 1998 until 2000. From 1992
Mr. Peak was Vice President of Product Management for McGraw-Hill
Construction Information Group which he joined after his previous employer,
Computer Aided Planning, was acquired by McGraw-Hill. Mr. Peak is a graduate
of the University of Florida.

"World-Check is the market pioneer and leader in risk
intelligence thanks to the solid foundations laid by David Leppan and the
company's consistently superior product data and services, said Dan Peak,
World-Check CEO. "As the recognized industry 'best of breed' the challenge
lies in extending our hard earned, cutting edge reputation to markets beyond
the financial and legal sectors while, at the same time, better servicing our
existing client-base. It is with this challenge in mind that I am truly
excited to lead World-Check on a continued path of rapid growth and expansion
as we introduce our unparalleled collection of risk data and products to a
larger and broader audience."

With today's announcement, Dan Peak becomes Chief Executive
Officer of a company with a solid management team and a clear path ahead of
it.

About World-Check

World-Check provides its global database of heightened-risk
individuals and businesses to more than 3000 institutions in 162 countries,
including 47 of the world's 50 largest banks and hundreds of government
agencies. World-Check's database of known money launderers, fraudsters,
terrorists, narcotics traffickers, shell banks and sanctioned entities is
unparalleled in its depth, reliability and coverage. The risk-relevance of
its Politically Exposed Person (PEP) coverage is also unsurpassed.
World-Check's database is relied upon by institutions to enhance their Anti
Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) screening, Enhanced Due
Diligence (EDD), fraud prevention and Counter Terrorist Financing (CFT)
systems by efficiently screening customers, associates, transactions and
employees for potential risk. World-Check's intelligence also finds direct
application in PEP risk screening processes.

World-Check offers a downloadable data file for the automated
screening of unlimited records, as well as a simple online service for
instant entity screening.

Marion Willson,
    mw2@world-check.com,
    +44-20-8099-7263