company profile - Accuity

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Headquarters
1 Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1HR, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 20 7014 3480
Americas
Telephone: +1 847 676 9600
Asia Pacific
Telephone: +44 20 7014 3480
Notes: Acquired by Reed Elsevier for £343 million in September 2011
 
Company information
Accuity is the leading provider of global payment routing data, AML screening software and services. Our solutions deliver critical payment information necessary to improve rates of payment straight through processing (STP) and offer a complete range of caution lists and screening tools for AML compliance. In addition, our services group provides consulting and training to help optimise both payment and compliance operations.

Since 1836 we have helped businesses around the world and our role as the Official Registrar of the American Bankers Association (ABA) Routing Numbers since 1911 has enabled us to compile and maintain the most authoritative and comprehensive database of global bank information available.

The largest organisations in the world rely on our solutions to save time and money. Visit us www.AccuitySolutions.com/finextra to find out how.
Products and services
Strategic Services Accuity's Strategic Services offer a collaborative approach for creating solutions that can take your company's compliance and payment processing operations to the highest levels. Our Strategic Services Group works with your firm's business and technology personnel to integrate Accuity solutions and optimise the benefits they provide. Our team partners with you to help you achieve your goals with managed solutions, workflow efficiency, education and training and integration support for Accuity's full complement of solutions. Web: More about: Strategic Services
Screening Applications Our powerful, automated interdiction screening tools methodically examine your data for potential violations of domestic and international regulations. These solutions offer a variety of customer filtering, account screening and transaction monitoring options to meet your business' unique processing requirements. Available in Web, client-server, mainframe, AS/400, SWIFT MERVA and SWIFT Alliance, these tools significantly reduce exposure to high-risk or sanctioned entities involved in criminal activities, such as money laundering or drug trafficking that may result in regulatory fines and penalties. Web: More about: Screening Applications
SEPA Operations Accuity's SEPA Operations solutions provide the fundamental tools to help you with your SEPA compliance initiatives and improve the processing of SEPA payment transactions by confirming the structure of IBANs before the transactions are processed. Key components include the ability to identify the connected SWIFT/BIC for any IBAN; determine the beneficiary's bank name and address for any IBAN; validate the structure of any IBAN; and, create an MT103+ message. Web: More about: SEPA Operations
Global Operations Accuity's Global Operations solutions serve as the anchor for your payment processing efforts and provide indispensable data to help eliminate excess processing and manual handling of transactions and essential routing information such as SWIFT/BICs, national clearing codes, CHIPS UIDs, SSIs (Standing Settlement Instructions) and correspondents by currency and location. Web: More about: Global Operations
Global WatchList Accuity's proprietary watch list screening database is an aggregation of specially designated individuals and entities compiled from dozens of regulatory and enhanced due diligence lists from around the world. Continuously updated, Global WatchList provides the ideal framework for your customer screening and interdiction filtering processes. Some of the lists include the World Bank Debarred List, United States Marshals List, Interpol Wanted Fugitives List, International Arms Traffickers, Enhanced OFAC List, HM Treasury List, European Union List, FATF Non-cooperative Countries (Money Laundering) List as well as the Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) Due Diligence Database.
Web: More about: Global WatchList
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