1. THOMSON REUTERS ACCELUS™
Financial Crime and Reputation Risk

2. THOMSON REUTERS ACCELUS™
Our solutions dynamically connect business transactions, strategy, and
operations to the ever-changing regulatory environment, providing highly
regulated firms with informed outcomes. Our client groups include compliance,
audit, legal and risk functions within the organisation. We partner with firms to
manage their risk exposure and accelerate their business at every step.

3. Thomson Reuters Accelus 3
Financial Crime and Reputation Risk
In 2010
Thomson
Reuters
tracked more
than 10,000
financial
services
regulatory
changes
across the
globe.
INTRODUCING THE FIRST TRULY COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL CRIME
PREVENTION SOLUTION
Thomson Reuters AccelusTM
provides effective financial crime solutions that combine advanced
software with World-Check’s comprehensive and highly structured intelligence on Politically
Exposed People (PEPs) and heightened risk individuals and entities. Thousands of organisations
around the world use our screening solutions to meet their Anti Money Laundering (AML), Know
Your Customer (KYC), Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) and PEP obligations, to find
hidden risk in their relationships and to safeguard their reputation.
Organisations that partner with Thomson Reuters Accelus can rely on our legacy of successful
implementation and service. We work with firms and their advisors to:
• Effectively manage regulatory, reputational and financial risk
• Offer auditable proof of due diligence
• Comply with global legislation including AML, KYC, CFT and PEP monitoring
• Ensure people are who they say they are
• Track market developments and regional enforcement action
• Process clients faster and more efficiently than the competition
• Provide targeted and effective due diligence on supply chains and third party agents
• Train employees and suppliers on their AML and due diligence obligations
• Perform ongoing transaction monitoring of clients for AML and fraud prevention
• Integrate our data into existing systems and technology infrastructure

4. 4 GOVERNANCE, RISK AND COMPLIANCE
Financial Crime and Reputation Risk
“The biggest
problem is
false positives
– this creates
most of the
work. Much of
my time is spent
doing due
diligence on
an alert and
noting why
it should be
cleared.”
CCO, Global Bank
MANAGING RISK IN THE GLOBAL
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Regulatory reform and increased enforcement activity may ultimately protect the international
business community and be of benefit to the greater environment, but they also increase the
pressure on businesses through increased workload and cost.
Regulatory change is now a constant feature, creating a compliance challenge particularly for
regulated companies. There is heightened awareness of the risk that may be hiding in business
relationships – individuals involved in organised crime such as money laundering and terrorist
financing have become increasingly sophisticated. Association with a high risk entity or individual,
whether or not intentional, will expose your organisation to the risk of regulatory censure. This
in turn leads to irreparable reputation and brand damage that is often more devastating than
breaching compliance legislation.
As organisations endeavour to keep up with the pace of reform, compliance programmes tend to
become disjointed and burdensome, adding significantly to the cost of compliance in both time
and money. The ability to move fast is essential for your organisation to succeed.
Thomson Reuters Accelus offers a cost-effective, comprehensive and flexible financial crime and
reputation risk suite that helps to manage regulatory obligations, improve business efficiency and
safeguard reputation.

5. Thomson Reuters Accelus 5
Financial Crime and Reputation Risk
“World-Check
has provided
comprehensive,
consolidated
information
that helps our
organisation
to address
regulatory,
compliance,
reputation
and business
requirements.
It has
provided much
information
on high risk
individuals and
entities, KYC
and customers
due diligence
solutions.”
Senior Assistant Manager,
Central Bank of the Bahamas
A COHESIVE APPROACH TO FINANCIAL CRIME PREVENTION
Our financial crime and reputational risk suite combines World-Check highly structured
intelligence data with sophisticated matching technology and advanced software to create a
powerful, comprehensive approach to screening.
World-Check Intelligence
Effective risk screening relies on the best available intelligence. It is our global infrastructure
coupled to the skill of our research analysis that is key to the value of our intelligence.
Raw data is gathered by research analysts supported by specialised software and is processed
through rigorous quality control. Intelligence is carefully collated and checked for duplication.
It is the use of reasearch analysts that enables us to make further connections between subjects
and other business or family relationships, uncover suspected terror networks and highlight
the relevance of the intelligence offered. Software alone cannot offer this level of research
sophistication because people can identify relationships that software overlooks.
The structure of our intelligence when combined with our powerful software, increases accuracy,
minimises errors and false positives, ensuring a screening solution that is a cost-effective choice
for fast and reliable results.
There are greater risks than PEPs – 48% of our intelligence is made up of non-PEP information,
supporting an effective risk-based approach that goes beyond PEP screening.
Terrorism and insurgency research – Less than 3% of our terrorism coverage is derived from
official watchlists, showing the strength of our methodology. Clients benefit from tens of thou-
sands of records that reveal suspected human terror networks.

6. 6 GOVERNANCE, RISK AND COMPLIANCE
49 of the
world’s top
50 banks and
55 of Fortune
100 companies
rely on
World-Check
intelligence.
Advanced Software
Our sophisticated matching engine analyses the structure of a name and performs an intelligent
comparison using advanced linguistic algorithms. By performing these “intelligent” comparisons,
the engine helps overcome common name-matching issues which increases accuracy and drives
down false positives. The engine is particularly powerful in common scenarios such as:
• Same name written in multiple languages
• Phonetic spelling differences
• Nicknames
• Inclusion of initials
• Missing name components
• Out-of-order name components
The matching engine also features non-Latin character support in Arabic, Chinese (Simplified
or Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Pashto, Persian (Farsi/Dari), Russian, and Urdu. This powerful
functionality allows the software to translate names accurately to and from English.
This advanced technology has led to a 10%+ increase in match result processing and a 20%+
reduction in false positives*.
*Results based on internal test of 2,000 entities (1,000 individuals and 1,000 organisations)
Improved efficiency and automation
Our software helps to improve efficiency while supporting internal processes.
• Automated ongoing screening – users can enter a name to be screened and save it for ongo-
ing monitoring. The name will then automatically be screened overnight, every night, with an
email alert keeping users informed of any new matches that require attention.
• Multi-user workflow – enables a structured approach with specific teams, individuals and
escalation paths to share the task of handling exceptions generated by the system.
• Management reporting – provides quick and effective summaries of the overall screening
process.
• Case management – rapidly creates and compiles cases on suspicious transactions for disclo-
sure in Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs).
“…an invalu-
able tool
in the fight
against money
laundering
and crime in
general.”
HSBC
Financial Crime and Reputation Risk
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Financial Crime and Reputation Risk
THE THOMSON REUTERS DIFFERENCE
Historically, organisations have resorted to
using multiple technologies, data vendors
and training providers, together with in-
house solutions to ensure compliance with
AML, KYC, CFT and PEP regulations. This
approach results in duplicated effort and
serves to reinforce divisional structures that
do not share or cross-reference vital customer
information. With the Thomson Reuters
Accelus suite of solutions, a firm can take a
truly comprehensive approach to regulatory
compliance and reputation management,
improving the efficiency of business operations
significantly.
Additional services in the solution suite include:
Regulatory Training
Regulatory bodies across the globe require
firms to conduct regular AML training that
must be reviewed on a regular and frequent
basis. Developed by our in-house compliance
and training experts, our range of financial
crime e-learning courses covers core
compliance topics that help organisations
in highly regulated industries manage their
reputational and regulatory risk.
Our learning management system (LMS)
allows firms to:
• Assign courses
• Track progress
• Capture results
• Demonstrate compliance
Transaction Monitoring
TransWatch offers powerful detection,
inspection and resolution tools for transaction
monitoring. It takes a scenario-driven, risk-
based approach to the challenges presented
by money laundering, fraud and market abuse.
In addition, it is an effective tool in market
surveillance where hundreds of thousands of
transactions must be processed every day.
The extensive, yet flexible data model is
designed to minimise integration costs, whilst
maintaining adaptability. More than 100 pre-
built, parameter-driven detection scenarios
are provided as standard. This ensures that
the solution can be implemented quickly,
while remaining flexible to current and future
legislative requirements.
“…a valuable
addition to my
daily work as
a Compliance
Officer, in a
world where
requirements
are getting
more stringent
by the day and
risks are high-
er every day.”
Manager Compliance,
RBTT Bank NV

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