RDC (Regulatory DataCorp, Inc.)

RDC delivers powerful, decision‐ready due diligence information and world‐class risk and compliance protection, allowing global organisations to identify banned or suspect entities, strengthen fraud protection, ensure regulatory compliance, manage supply and distribution risk, and protect their brand equity.

Formed in 2002 by 20 of the world’s largest financial institutions, RDC was built to help businesses identify and manage risk arising from fraud, corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing as well as other risk-relevant activities by aggregating and delivering public source information in its Global Regulatory Information Database (GRID).GRID records can be searched and viewed through a Web-based application called “RDC Search.”

GRID Database

RDC's Global Regulatory Information Database (GRID™) is a 100% public source risk intelligence database tracking risk relevant information on people and organisations globally. It contains 19 million+ records, with over six million individual entities, including extensive adverse news culled from over 10,000 global media publications screened each day. Each record is tagged and coded with the alert type, alert stage, date, and entity type. Records include original source material, links, etc. All records are structured by risk code/sub-event (risk stage). RDC continuously collects new data sets on bribery, money laundering, financial fraud, terrorism, and organised crime.

Global Government Sanctions and Watch Lists

Hundreds of regulatory and disciplinary authority and government lists from around the world are used including:

• Fugitive lists
• Exclusion lists
• Fraud warnings
• Debarment lists
• Disciplinary actions
• Enforcement actions
• Law enforcement lists

Coverage of US and International sanctions and securities exchange actions is thorough, going beyond OFAC including:

• 77 non-us national-level regulatory lists (e.g., OSFI Canada, DFAT Australia, Japan
• Finance Ministry, BofE)
• 65 US state and local level regulators
• 45 US national-level regulatory lists

Where possible, consolidated lists are utilised , such as the EU consolidated list. Counting component parts of those lists separately would put the total count at approximately 1500 lists.

PEPs (Politically Exposed Persons)

PEP profiles for anti-corruption compliance include:

• Extensive public-source government documents and lists, plus proprietary third-party databases.
• Thousands of public sources including specialised political, trade, industry journals, academic specialty publications, and biographic special interest journals.
• Regional desk groups with local language capability that build complete profiles of senior officeholders, military officials, judicial figures, state-controlled enterprise directors, regional and municipal officials, and legislators and political party leaders.
• Names, aliases and position history, plus links to profiles of family members and close associates.
• Continual evaluation of additional/supplemental sources for inclusion.

Global Media

RDC provides access to global media and negative news from many sources:

• 15,000+ individual media sources:
  • Newspapers (low circulation up to major market)
  • Magazines
  • Trade specialty publications
  • Geographic special interest publications
  • Academic journals
  • Gray literature (non-standard publications that are not typically available through normal publication channels)
  • Television and radio transcripts

• Foreign-language material from domestic and overseas US government bureaus (world news connect)

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