Grant Thornton International is one of the world's leading organizations of independently owned and managed accounting and consulting firms. These firms provide assurance, tax and specialist advisory services to privately held businesses and public interest entities. Clients of member and correspondent firms can access the knowledge and experience of more than 2,400 partners in over 100 countries and consistently receive a distinctive, high quality service wherever they choose to do business.

Grant Thornton member firms in the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, USA, Canada and the UK provide expert services relating to all forms of economic crime using forensic asset tracing skills combined with the powers available under the insolvency, proceeds of crime and company laws in the relevant jurisdictions.

Grant Thornton member firms' economic crime teams comprise forensic, fraud, accountancy, insolvency and tax professionals, supported by computer forensics specialists, who provide expert advice and support at every stage of the discovery, investigation, recovery and prevention processes.

Economic crime practitioners offer unique solutions and have expertise in the following areas:

• asset tracing of misappropriated assets and funds
• fraud investigations that minimise consequences of fraud
• assistance with fraud reporting and presenting findings in Court
• litigation against fraudsters
• asset recovery
• repatriating monies gained from fraudulent and criminal activity
• tracing and freezing the proceeds of crime
• litigation against third parties and professionals who have assisted in perpetrating fraud
• forensic IT to identify and retrieve information held on electronic media
• finding hidden or apparently lost data, and recreating critical computer related communications
• searching and managing e-mails and databases

Grant Thornton member firms have experience in all of the major offshore financial centers including the Caribbean, Dubai, Mauritius, Lichtenstein and many other jurisdictions.

 
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Established in 1974, Cayman National Group comprises of banking, trust & company management, wealth management and insurance. Cayman National is a public company with its shares now being traded through the Cayman Stock Exchange. The Group is comprised of: Cayman National Bank Ltd., Cayman National Fund Services Ltd., Cayman National Securities Ltd., Cayman National Trust Co. Ltd, Aon Cayman National Insurance Brokers Ltd, Cayman National Bank and Trust Company (Isle of Man) Limited, Cayman National Fund Services (Isle of Man) Limited, Cayman National Bank Ltd. Oficiana de Representación (Panama) and Cayman National Dubai) Ltd. As a strong and trusted financial service provider headquartered in Grand Cayman, the Group has been providing personal, commercial and corporate financial services to local and international clients for 35 years, offering expertise with integrated financial solutions delivered through one coordinated relationship.

 

 

Since its establishment in 2000, World-Check has been at the forefront of Know Your Customer intelligence and has taken the lead in providing regulated industries with innovative services and tools to help meet their regulatory and risk management requirements. The World-Check database covers heightened-risk individuals and entities from more than 24 categories, including money laundering, fraud, organized crime, terrorism and sanctioned entities. As a separate specialist area of coverage, World-Check’s PEP intelligence is unparalleled, including PEPs from every country in the world, as well as relatives, middlemen and companies associated with them.

 

Kinetic Partners is the only global professional services boutique focused exclusively on the asset management industry. Established in March 2005 as a viable alternative to the ‘Big 4’ and a one stop shop for clients wanting in-depth industry expertise, we provide a truly unique and bespoke solution to both alternative and traditional firms.

 

Established in 2002, Inquesta provides a variety of risk management services from business intelligence and mortgage fraud investigations to cyber, physical and personnel risk solutions for banking, insurance and corporate clients. The mortgage and credit crisis has only accentuated the need for this experience for a range of business activities now under the U.S. Congress’ microscope. Inquesta’s staff of former federal agents and regulators and former financial industry executives are particularly qualified to assist your organization establish a risk-based governance framework in the areas of information privacy, identity theft prevention (Red Flags Rule), vendor management, business continuity planning and crisis management. And our KYC Solutions division can help you operate FCRA-compliant employment and tenancy processes, as well as screen customers and business partners.

 

 

Truth Technologies (www.truthtechnologies.com) is a worldwide provider of anti-money laundering and customer identification products and services.  Truth Technologies’ premier product, Sentinel, is a highly effective, customizable, and global customer screening resource providing Sanction, PEP and high risk individual and company screening.  TTI provides Sentinel ASP services via an online interface, via batch processing, or through web services.  One time screenings are available.  Sentinel provides customizable, high-speed customer screening.

Sentinel offers these bottom-line benefits:

• Reduced Workload - Automated customer on-boarding eliminates the need to manually enter data. Sentinel's low false positive rate and New Data Alert feature dramatically reduce occurrences of matches requiring review by up to 75%.
• Ease of Use - Fast, user-friendly remediation screens and workflow.  Batch Screening and Real Time APIs allow you to check thousands of customers with out having to manually enter any data.
• Trouble-Free Maintenance - Automatic system, software, and database updates.

 

 

 

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