Vendor Due Diligence | ClearSignal

Market-leading risk intelligence to power vendor due diligence

Effective Vendor Due Diligence – VDD depends on access to high-quality, integrated data and sophisticated AI tools to analyze that data for risks. Businesses worldwide look to ClearSignal to power robust vendor and supply chain due diligence.

Our sanctions, watchlist, PEP, KYB, and adverse media checks, combined with more sources, improved AI driven relevance, and less false positives than our competitors, ensure we minimise regulatory exposure, reputational damage, or financial loss.

Features that represents Vendor Due Diligence

Sanctions & Watchlist

Regulatory Risk Checks

Perform targeted checks against official sanctions lists and watchlists to determine whether an individual or organisation is subject to regulatory restrictions. This includes identification of sanctioned entities and Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), enabling you to meet mandatory compliance requirements.

Commerical Risk

Comprehensive Know Your Business

Use real time access to our global registered business data to verify the legitimacy of any commercial organisation and its officers and shareholders. Assess financial health and commercial risk for confident credit risk decisioning. Discover ownership and UBO with our extended group structure feature.

Adverse Media

Negative News & Event Screening

Monitor global adverse media in real time with AI-verified matches that reduce false positives by up to 90% and surface 5–20× more relevant signals than leading tools. New or existing companies in your supply chain can be constantly updated with the latest search results so that nothing ever comes as a suprise.

How we support Vendor Due Diligence requirements

Sanctions, Adverse Media, PEP & Watchlist Screen

Sanctions screening involves checking individuals or entities against official government or international lists of sanctioned parties. These sanctions can be imposed for various reasons, including terrorism, drug trafficking, human rights violations, or political conflicts. We also check for adverse media across hundreds of high quality news sources, and enforcements or disqualifications.

Possible sanctions checks include:

Sanctions check, without having to do separate AML - International Sanctions
Enhanced PEP check, without having to do separate AML - International Enhanced PEP
Adverse media - over 200 sources

Know Your Business

Our KYB check involves checking companies financial health through access to complete multi-year accounts data, director and shareholder information, full group structure and UBO determination, filing events, as well as CCJ's and trade payment performance data.

With access to company data from over 200 countries worldwide, you can be sure that our KYB check will surface any relevant information that will help assess an existing vendor, or a new one, prior to onboarding.

Ongoing Monitoring

Screening customers at the point of account opening or beginning of a business relationship is only the first step. As people and businesses change, being alerted to anything that could impact your risk is critically important.

Smart Engagement Alerts
Stay ahead with real-time notifications about critical changes in your customer accounts—so you can act quickly and confidently.
Perpetual KYC & KYB Monitoring
Get instant, event-based alerts when key financial or credit information changes for individuals or businesses on your watchlist. Stay compliant, stay informed.
PEP, Sanctions & Adverse Media Screening
Re-screen customers anytime against global databases of PEPs, sanctions, and negative news. Set custom monitoring frequencies based on risk profiles—your compliance, your way.
Daily Engagement Emails
Start your day with a summary of actionable insights—timely updates that give you compelling reasons to reach out to customers and prospects.