Background Checks
Comprehensive verification services for individuals and businesses. Protect your interests with thorough background investigations before entering into relationships or transactions.
Secure unprecedented levels of verified information about potential risks posed by individuals associated with a business process or financial transaction, partnership, investment, recruitment, or other significant decisions.
In-depth Risk Profiling
Exposing Hidden Risks
Expose an individual's current or previous involvement in fraud, bribery, corruption, money laundering, dishonest conduct, theft of commercial data, financial malpractice, or links to criminal, suspicious or illicit activities.
Checks extend to identifying concealed or undisclosed risk data internationally relating to threats such as substance abuse, acts of domestic or violent behaviour, political, radical or ideological persuasion, or individuals likely to be susceptible to temptation, external influence or criminal coercement, a tactic prevalent in data breaches.
Background Checks
Investigation Types
Personal Checks
Expose an individual's current or previous involvement in fraud, bribery, corruption, money laundering, dishonest conduct, theft of commercial data, financial malpractice, or links to criminal, suspicious or illicit activities.
Investments
We help you assess investment risks and verify credibility before you commit. Our insights are designed to protect your interests and reduce uncertainty.
Bank Instrument Verification
Authentication of bank guarantees, letters of credit, bonds, and other financial instruments. Protect against forged documents, verify issuing bank legitimacy, and confirm instrument validity.
Corporate Due Diligence
Comprehensive investigation of key stakeholders before mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, or major transactions. Verify ownership, financial standing, litigation history, and reputation.
Employment
Our background checks draw on unique data sources to uncover fraud, risk, and credibility concerns. We help businesses make safer decisions before exposure occurs.
Insider Threat
Spot employees working in high threat areas susceptible to bribery or criminal coercement to avoid data breaches.
Investigation Depth
Background Check Levels
Our team of experts thoroughly examines and verifies every piece of data before it is shared with our clients.
Know Your Customer (KYC)
Essential identity & risk screening
- Search for other names used (past and present)
- Complete worldwide criminal history check (warnings, cautions, arrests, warrants, convictions)
- Review of associated people and organisations
- Direct or indirect links to fraudulent, criminal or suspicious activity and third-party risk
- Bankruptcy and financial probity check
All checks international. Minimum 10 checks per order.
Enhanced Due Diligence
Comprehensive risk analysis
- Everything in Level 1, plus:
- Financial status & negative financial history checks
- Bribery, corruption or fraud checks
- Involvement in money laundering activities
- Prescribed organisation / political affiliation checks
- Complete social media and internet presence review
- Border Force interest marker check
- Politically exposed persons (PEP) screening
- Sanctions list including financial sanctions
- Substance abuse programme checks
- Check for domestic violence history worldwide
- Intelligence risk analysis assessment
All checks international.
Intelligence-led Due Diligence
Advanced tactical investigation
- Assessment of targeted third-party threat: establish risk to business and investments
- Known affiliations and network risk exposure
- Travel pattern analysis
- Tactical surveillance
- GPS tracking of target and known associates
- On and off-shore financial profiling and analysis
- Affiliations with radical or ideological persuasions
- Corporate structure and registration verification
- Civil litigation and bankruptcy checks
- Media and adverse press analysis
- Red notice checks & financial regulator warnings
- Counter-Terrorism Financing (CFT)
- Comprehensive global intelligence risk analysis
All checks international. Scope varies by case complexity.
Personal Financial Checks
Concealed assets & financial analysis
- Identifying concealed offshore accounts
- Financial stability check (Personal)
- Complete financial history
- Bank instrument verification including underlying asset location
- Bank account or financial asset verification
- Financial marker identifying suspected fraud linked to target
- Associates, addresses and corporate entities linked to individual
Price on application.
Bank Instrument Verification
Forensic analysis of financial instruments
- Phase 1: Instrument Verification. Authenticity check for POF, BG, SBLC, MTN, and bank statements
- Phase 2: Beneficial Ownership. Global due diligence on ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs)
- Phase 3: Source of Funds / Source of Wealth. Transactional analysis across banking and digital currencies
Estimated majority of bank instruments in circulation are fraudulent or linked to criminal activity.
Why choose Footprint Investigations
Clear Intelligence. Real Answers.
We uncover more, verify everything, and deliver answers you can rely on.
Access to more data
Our intelligence-driven investigations provide access to 70% more information than even the most sophisticated commercial or open-source investigative technologies.
Exclusive data sources
We draw from a global network of unique and trusted partnerships, ensuring a well-rounded and highly factual perspective tailored to every case.
Verified insights
Quality is our priority. Every piece of information undergoes thorough verification by our team of experts before being shared, ensuring accuracy and reliability.
Unmatched expertise
Footprint Investigations delivers unparalleled investigative capabilities, offering a comprehensive approach that spans the entire scope of modern intelligence gathering and analysis.
Compliance & Confidentiality
Conducted to Highest Standards
All background checks are conducted in strict compliance with data protection regulations, employment law, and industry standards. Our team of experts thoroughly examines and verifies every piece of data before it is shared with our clients.
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