World-Check One API
Compliance doesn’t have to be slow, complex, or too manual. Imagine a world where your end-to-end risk screening workflows are seamless, automated, and lightning-fast. That’s exactly what our World-Check One API delivers.
Faster Onboarding. Smarter Compliance. Seamless Automation.
Fight financial crime with future-ready technology
LSEG World-Check One API is a workflow-based API, delivered as a REST/JSON web service accessible exclusively over HTTPS, that enables you to harness the power of our proprietary World-Check risk intelligence data with the advanced screening capabilities of our state-of-the-art World-Check One screening platform.
Our API enables you to process large volumes of information by integrating our advanced, future-ready technology into your existing systems. It streamlines risk screening workflows for diverse use cases, including Onboarding, Know Your Customer (KYC), Third-party due diligence, and Transaction screening while also supporting continuous monitoring with our ongoing screening capabilities and fewer false positives.
Built with cutting-edge technology, our API delivers immediate benefits: it enhances efficiency by automating manual processes, reduces costs, accelerates time to revenue, and improves the overall customer experience. Flexible, scalable, and easy to integrate, our API empowers you to achieve operational excellence while seamlessly adapting to your business workflows.
The API schema is in Swagger 2.0 format (also known as the OpenAPI specification format), so developers integrating can benefit from the many supporting tools, documentation and resources available within the Swagger/OpenAPI ecosystem.
Our API is versatile and built to serve various use cases and user journeys, few such listed below.
| Which problems are you trying to solve? | How can World-Check One API help? |
|---|---|
| I want to implement an automated screening workflow within my customer onboarding journey (or any other use case where screening is required). | Screen customer names syncrhonously or asynchronously depending on your use case, including any secondary identifiers such as gender, date of birth, identification documents, etc. |
| I want to integrate screening capabilities into my existing case/workflow management tool. | Screening APIs provide all the necessary information including case details, summary of statistics, screening results and respective matched record details. |
| I want to automate screening workflow, but I want a UI to work on the cases created since I do not have my own case/workflow management tool. | The web interface and API are fully interchangeable. You can automate your screening with API and allow users to access the web interface for remediation purposes. |
| I want to automate end-to-end screening workflow including case remediation. | Leverage our case manager APIs to resolve and review the matches within your internal or third-party applications. This includes full audit trial, bulk and reporting capabilities, etc. |
| I have my own internal watchlists which I want to screen my customers against alongside World-Check data. | Upload/maintain your internal watchlists using our web interface or automate your list management using our client-watchlist APIs. |
| I want to screen my customers against negative media/news. | Screen against both structured and unstructured adverse media from our World-Check risk intelligence data and Media-Check (add-on) respectively. |
| I want to tag certain cases as high-risk based on our risk appetite and perform ongoing monitoring. | Update risk-rating as High and enable the case for ongoing screening. Review any updated matches. You can also initiate an instant full re-screen or delta screen, if required. |
| I want real-time alerts whenever there any updates on my customer case | Subscribe our Webhooks based event-driven push notifications to get real-time alerts whenever ongoing screening process updates any of your cases. |
Below is a diagram illustrating a high-level sample interaction between your internal system and the World-Check One API.
Get Started
As a commercial offering, World-Check API requires access to be enabled via product licensing. If you already have the access, then you should also have your set of API keys which can be used to authenticate and access the API. If you do not have access, contact your LSEG Account Manager.
As a developer, you have full access to our comprehensive developer portal resources and technical documentation. If you have access to a Pilot account, you can develop and verify your integration before it can be progressed into your production environment for real-world use. The only change required to promote your integration to your production environment is updating the API keys within your configuration database.
To check your access and get started, please head over to our Quick Start guide.
Troubleshooting and support
Debugging an error? Head over to our developer community to search for questions raised by other developers and find useful troubleshooting tips.
Have a question? Post it in our Q&A forum by selecting Forum as “World-Check One”, Tags as “world-check-one-api” and one of our API consultants will attend to it.
Need more help? Raise your concern via LSEG MyAccount Support tool and one of our specialists will reach out asap.
Want to share an idea or general feedback? Keep them coming our way via LSEG MyAccount Feedback tool and we will prioritize our roadmaps accordingly.
Stay informed
World-Check One API is constantly improving with advanced capabilities through our innovation and customer feedback. All the changes are usually documented and available in the documentation under Changelog section.
Ensure you’re aware of upcoming system changes and/or new functionality that may affect your workflows or require action on your part by subscribing to Product Change Notifications (PCNs).
You can also view and subscribe to PCNs, Data Notifications, and Service Alerts on the Notifications & Alerts page in your LSEG MyAccount.
About Us
LSEG Risk Intelligence - Opening a world of possibilities by protecting you from a world of risks!
An increasingly digital economy and volatile geopolitical backdrop are generating new threats and opportunities for organisations to address.
You can confidently do business with your customers and suppliers while reducing time to revenue for new clients. With our comprehensive suite of solutions, you can remove barriers and operational costs associated with vendor management, and create superior customer experiences that set you apart from your competition.
World-Check One, from LSEG Risk Intelligence, is an essential screening platform, created to support your due diligence needs in the fight against financial crime, bribery, and corruption. Paired with data from World-Check Risk Intelligence, our next-generation automated screening software lets you take a targeted approach to Know Your Customer (KYC) verification and third-party screening.
Accelerate and simplify compliance with regulatory obligations relating to anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) using World-Check One’s purpose-built software, enabling detailed screening and monitoring of politically exposed persons (PEPs) and heightened risk individuals and entities.
Streamline your screening processes with powerful customisation and control, and a range of time-saving features for single users or large teams. Our unified World-Check One platform helps to make remediation simpler and more intelligent.
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