Due diligence that starts where Google search stops.
Comprehensive investigative reports on any company, in the UK or worldwide. Ownership and beneficial owners, directors, adverse media, PEPs and sanctions, court records and behavioural risk.
It tells you whether a name appears on a list. It won’t surface a director’s behavioural risk, a settled fraud case, a discrepancy buried in the ownership structure, or a pattern of concern in employee reviews.
A full investigation does, and maps each finding on a single risk matrix.
Most risk never reaches Google.
Google indexes around 4–6% of the internet. We screen 198M+ corporate records and 600B+ archived web pages, including pages that have since been taken down, plus the deep and dark web, breached data, and more than 300 social platforms.
Risk doesn’t hide in the obvious. Neither do we.
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The risk is rarely just the company.
It sits one entity over, in a subsidiary, a beneficial owner, or a director’s other interests.
Network risk analysis runs across up to five subsidiaries, five significant individuals, and five owners.
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enhanced due diligence
An investigation you can act on.
Every report opens with a Risk Alert Matrix, then sets out the detail behind each flag with the source linked. The kind of report that holds up when a regulator, a board, or an auditor asks how you reached the decision.
Most credit checks were built for a different era — global models, static scores, one-off checks at onboarding. We built ours for the way UK risk teams actually work today.
Standard due diligence
Matches a name against watchlists.
Surface web and standard watchlist coverage.
The named entity only.
Findings you take on trust.
Compliance with one provider, credit risk with another.
Company Watch
A full investigation: ownership, directors, adverse media, behavioural and reputational risk, court records.
600B+ archived pages, the deep and dark web, breached data, and 300+ social platforms.
The network around it: subsidiaries, significant individuals, and beneficial owners.
Every finding source-linked. A report you can hand to a regulator, a board, or an auditor.
Enhanced due diligence and financial risk from the same provider.
How we compare
Most due diligence stops at a name and a watchlist. We built ours to keep going.
Standard due diligence
Company Watch
Matches a name against watchlists.
A full investigation: ownership, directors, adverse media, behavioural and reputational risk, court records.
Surface web and standard watchlist coverage.
600B+ archived pages, the deep and dark web, breached data, and 300+ social platforms.
The named entity only.
The network around it: subsidiaries, significant individuals, and beneficial owners.
Findings you take on trust.
Every finding source-linked. A report you can hand to a regulator, a board, or an auditor
Compliance with one provider, credit risk with another.
Enhanced due diligence and financial risk from the same provider.
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What a report covers:
Risk Alert Matrix across reputational, regulatory and individual risk.
Corporate structure and ownership, including beneficial owners.
Directors & significant individuals, with adverse media and behavioural risk.
Who they are is one half. Whether they’ll pay is the other.
That is a different discipline, and it is the rest of what Company Watch does: financial health scoring, distress prediction, and daily monitoring on UK and Irish companies, built on real insolvency data.
Run your enhanced due diligence and your financial risk with one provider, instead of stitching two together.
Book a demo and we’ll walk you through an EDD report and how to link financial performance to your overall risk picture.
what you’ll unlock:
A sample Snapshot and a full Investigation
Which tier fits which counterparty
PEPs, sanctions and adverse-media screening in action
Due diligence run on UK or worldwide counterparties
How to add financial-risk monitoring from the same provider
FAQS
Enhanced customer due diligence (EDD) is an advanced form of due diligence required when onboarding high-risk individuals or entities. It involves collecting in-depth information to assess financial crime risk, ensure regulatory compliance, and verify identities beyond standard KYC checks.
Enhanced customer due diligence often includes reviewing a company’s ownership structure, financial background, transaction history, and links to politically exposed persons (PEPs) or sanctioned entities.
Enhanced customer due diligence is critical for identifying and mitigating risks such as fraud, corruption, terrorist financing, and money laundering. It’s not just a legal requirement in regulated industries. It’s a proactive measure to protect your business from financial and reputational harm.
Industries like gambling, cryptocurrency, legal, real estate, and insurance are especially vulnerable to financial crime and must implement robust EDD practices to stay compliant.
EDD is legally mandated or strongly recommended in scenarios where there’s an elevated risk of money laundering or financial crime. This includes:
Customers from high-risk jurisdictions
Politically exposed persons (PEPs)
Complex ownership structures
High-value or cash-intensive transactions
Customers with prior criminal records
High-net-worth individuals in high-risk industries
In such cases, enhanced due diligence for high-risk individuals helps uncover hidden threats and ensures full compliance with AML regulations. Our EDD reports make enhanced due diligence for high-risk customers straightforward and efficient.
Effective EDD typically includes:
Verification of identity and beneficial ownership
Risk assessment of the individual or entity
Detailed background checks on directors and key personnel
PEPs & sanctions screening
Ongoing monitoring for suspicious activity
Deep-dive reporting using external data sources
These components help build a 360-degree risk profile and support smarter, faster decision-making. For an over-arching due diligence process, it is also worth looking at a company’s cyber risk status. Cyber Risk Report by Company Watch provides such an assessment in a comprehensive and holistic manner.
Enhanced due diligence for high-risk individuals involves a deeper investigation into personal and financial histories. This includes verifying identity through independent sources, reviewing affiliations with PEPs, analysing source of funds, and flagging potential red flags via global databases.
Anti-money laundering (AML) refers to a set of regulations, policies, and procedures designed to detect and prevent the flow of illicit funds. Enhanced customer due diligence is a core pillar of AML compliance.
EDD provides the granular visibility needed to flag suspicious behaviour, reduce risk exposure, and stay on the right side of global AML laws.
Failure to perform adequate EDD can lead to:
Regulatory fines and penalties
Reputational damage
Criminal charges
Loss of business licenses or banking relationships
Proper enhanced customer due diligence can serve as your first line of defence in avoiding these consequences.
KYC (Know Your Customer) is the basic process of verifying a customer’s identity. Enhanced customer due diligence goes beyond that to evaluate risk factors associated with high-risk individuals and entities.
EDD includes ongoing monitoring, comprehensive background checks, and deeper scrutiny – making it essential for higher-risk relationships.
A Politically Exposed Person (PEP) is someone who holds or has held a prominent public position and may pose a higher risk for involvement in bribery, corruption, or financial crime.
PEPs are categorised by risk level:
Tier 1: Heads of state, senior politicians, judiciary, military, and executives of state-owned corporations
Tier 2: Domestic equivalents of Tier 1
Tier 3: High-level corporate or public sector roles
Tier 4: Close associates, family members, and business partners of higher-tier PEPs
Access to accurate, up-to-date PEP and Sanctions data is essential for effective enhanced customer due diligence.
To perform enhanced customer due diligence on a company, collect detailed information about its ownership structure, financials, transaction history, director backgrounds, and associated risks. Use technology that scans global corporate records and online data to identify red flags.
Doing this manually and without the right tools can be a pain. Company Watch can make the process straightforward, smooth, and presentation-ready.
Yes, in many jurisdictions, enhanced customer due diligence is mandatory when dealing with high-risk customers, especially in regulated sectors like finance, real estate, and crypto. It’s also required under AML laws when specific risk indicators are present.
Yes. Enhanced customer due diligence can be automated using specialised business information providers like Company Watch. We screen global databases, perform sanctions and PEP checks, and generate comprehensive EDD reports in real time.
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