Why choose us?

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Uncover more risk
than all other solutions combined before they harm your company.

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Meet legal and
regulatory Anti-Money Laundering processes with confidence.

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Reduce false positives with more relevant and up-to-date verification and AML screening solutions.

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Eliminate the need to rescreen customers for updates with our AML automation solutions.

How it works

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Monitored lists

Check compliance against
1500+ global lists.

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PEPs

Check against 1.7+ million
global Politically Exposed Persons.

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Adverse media

Screen against a library of media articles 3X bigger than the next largest competitor.

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Continuous screening

Fully automated ongoing Anti Money Laundering checks eliminates the need to rescreen.

Screening Features

Adverse media screening & monitored lists

High-risk monitored lists validation

Verification against 900+ global lists, including:

  • International sanctions
  • Regulatory bodies’ actions
  • Money laundering related
  • Terrorism related
  • Human trafficking-related
  • Fraud related
  • Organized crime-related
  • Drug trafficking-related
  • Fugitive lists
  • Fraud warnings
  • Debarment lists
  • Disciplinary/enforcement actions
  • Law enforcement press
Screening Features PEPs

PEP screening services

Our verification check services inspect against a 1.7+ million global Politically Exposed Person list which features government officials, military and judicial figures, family, associates, advisors and state-owned enterprises.

Uncover client involvement in activities related to financial crime or that pose a reputational risk

Adverse media screening

As a leading adverse media screening service provider, uqudo can uncover client/company involvement in activities related to financial crime or that pose a reputational risk by screening over 3 billion media articles that are deduped and prioritized.

Screening Features Ongoing AML

Automated ongoing AML (Anti-money laundering) solutions

Stay up-to-date with legal and compliance changes by leveraging fully automated and continuous AML (Anti-money laundering) screening and monitoring services.

Secure, frictionless, & fully compliant digital onboarding. Integrated seamlessly within your app.

Latest Screening/AML updates

Product, Screening
Aug 29, 2022
5 min read

6 tips for a successful AML (Anti-Money Laundering) Compliance

Chandrika Mahapatra

KYC Content Specialist uqudo

Knowledge base
Sep 05, 2022

AML (Anti-Money Laundering)

Knowledge base
Sep 05, 2022

PEPs (Politically Exposed Persons)

Easily integrate with your tech stack.

Use our simple and secure Web SDK, Mobile SDK, or RESTful API to seamlessly integrate identity capabilities into your operations.

See documentation

An award-winning team

uqudo is proud to be recognised by some of the world’s most distinguished organisations.

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  • Arab innovation logo
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Here’s what people say about us

  • After our research, we found uqudo to be by far the best AML provider and we are confident that they will help us push our business forward as we grow.

  • Digital ID, data governance and cross borders e-payments are critical to advance the digital transformation we want for Africa. Therefore, welcoming uqudo to the alliance is clearly aligned with our ambitions. Their expertise and experience will be a great asset to our organisation.

  • Authentication and authorization are mission-critical components. Staex provides a dynamic lightweight network layer for new digital collaborators such as public-private engagements while uqudo offers proven digital identity technology. The combined solution safeguards our lives and actions in the digital world.

  • From a strategic point of view for TECH5, uqudo is a great partner for the integration of both companies’ offerings to create unparalleled digital KYC and National Identity programs in the Middle East, Africa, and other regions. In addition, we appreciate access to uqudo’s expertise as a full-service provider in the space of digital onboarding and authentication.

  • I’ve seen the uqudo platform working first hand and it’s extraordinarily compelling, especially if you are looking for an incredibly seamless onboarding/ID verification process.

  • What made us choose Uqudo as our digital identity partner is their clear and fast integration process and the constant availability and efficiency of their support team. The client ID verification and video selfie is user-friendly and convenient making our onboarding process quasi-instant.

  • It is an honor and great fun, working with a company like uqudo! I‘m fascinated not just by their great talent and tech & market expertise … but especially by their passion. For their products, their customers and the restless willingness to go beyond. All this resulted already in impressive successes – looking forward to working with the team, to truly ‘own’ the region and grow beyond.

We price based on successful onboarding.

Say goodbye to request-based fees, repeat charges, and spiralling customer acquisition costs.

FAQ

What does your Screening process involve?

uqudo’s screening process involves running background checks by checking global lists for high-risk entities. In regulated industries, there is a requirement to ensure the individuals you are dealing with aren’t sanctioned to mitigate business risk.

  1. Anti Money Laundering (AML) is a set of policies, procedures, and technologies that prevents money laundering. Money laundering involves the execution of transactions to eventually convert illegally obtained money into legal money.
  2. A Politically Exposed Person (PEP) check, also known as PEP sanction screening, involves searching official politically exposed people lists to see if a prospective or current customer is on that list during client identification or transaction screening processes.
  3. Sanctions checks (sometimes known as watchlist checks) are specialised searches that include several international, government, or regulator sanctions databases that identify individuals prohibited from certain activities or industries.

How do you do AML/PEP’s/Sanctions screening?

Our Screening lists include the following:

  1. Monitored Lists: 900+ monitored lists that include international sanctions, money laundering and other global lists.
  2. PEPs (Politically Exposed Person) lists: PEP list check against 1.7+ million high-risk individuals.
  3. Adverse Media Screening: Screening against 3 billion media articles.

We can screen and monitor in real-time, on an ongoing basis.

What is AML?

AML (Anti-Money Laundering) refers to the rules and regulations that combat money laundering and terrorist financing. AML screening helps detect and identify these suspicious activities. 

What are monitored lists?

Monitored lists use data from numerous sources to evaluate a customer’s risk profile. Some examples of monitored lists include

  • International sanction lists (FATF, OFAC, UNSC)
  • Regional sanction lists (MENAFATF, EU, GIABA, ESAAMLG)
  • Money laundering 
  • Terrorist financing
  • Drug trafficking
  • Narcotics trafficking 
  • Human rights violations
  • International treaties violations

What is PEP screening?

PEPs (Politically Exposed Persons) are those individuals holding a prominent public position, which increases their susceptibility to fraud. PEP screening involves identifying PEPs and evaluating their risk profiles. 

Our PEP screening involves evaluation against 4 PEPs risk levels, which are:

  1. High-risk PEPs
  2. Medium-risk PEPs
  3. Low-risk PEPs
  4. PEPs by association

Why is watchlist screening important?

A global watchlist screening helps companies identify suspicious money launderers and individuals associated with financial crimes. Along with this, screening helps firms comply with their region’s AML/CFT regulations.

Are uqudo’s Screening lists regularly updated?

Yes, our database undergoes real-time updates, so our Ongoing AML can easily track changes in a customer’s risk profile.