What Is World Check?

In this blog, Gherson's criminal litigation, investigations and regulatory team explore what World Check is and how the information that World Check (and its competitors) holds and provides about you can have a profound (and potentially unknown) effect on both your reputation and your ability to conduct business with and through numerous key institutions in a globalised world.

The blog explains how it is, therefore, of vital importance to ensure that any information that these databases hold about you is correct and accurate; and details how you can find out whether this is the case, and if not, the steps you can take to rectify the situation.

What is World Check?

World Check or, to give the organisation its full name – Refinitiv World Check – is a database often utilised by those who conduct due diligence, third-party screenings or Know Your Client ("KYC") checks. Eliminating the technical jargon, the World Check database, and the databases of their