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Media Check
With the Media Check we offer you another tool with which you can check your (potential) customers and business partners for general Google and Internet entries as well as general media news including social media channels. This tool is ideal to get a first, general media impression and overview of a person as well as a company or assists to complete a customer dossier.
ESG Due Diligence Assistant
Monitoring ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) risks is becoming a new, additional compliance requirement. With the rejection of the Corporate Responsibility Initiative in Switzerland, the indirect counter-proposal will automatically come into effect, introducing new mandatory reporting requirements in the Code of Obligations and in criminal law. Depending on the size and sector of the company, it will have to account for environmental, social and employee concerns, respect for human rights, the fight against corruption and compliance with due diligence requirements for minerals and metals originating from conflict and high-risk areas, as well as for products or services with suspected child labor. As things stand, the complex new regulations will come into force in 2022, forcing companies to report accordingly for the first time for the 2023 financial year. In this respect, the management of ESG risks is gaining in importance not only from a company's reputation perspective, but also from a criminal law perspective.
Companies that are directly affected are those that source parts of their value creation externally and fulfill the relevant criteria in terms of size and industry. However, ESG risks not only play a central role in the review of supply chains in purchasing, but also complete a holistic view of legal entities in the customer base.
KYC Spider now offers the possibility to use the ESG Due Diligence Assistant to quickly and efficiently check your customers and business partners for relevant news and articles related to ESG topics or risks. After searching for the most relevant articles, you can rate and comment on them individually. The PDF report can then be downloaded or archived in the KYC Spider Toolbox as usual.
Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) Assistant Update
Our popular Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) Assistant has received a facelift and is now based on the same technology as the new ESG Due Diligence Assistant.
Would you like to try out our new features or stay informed about relevant compliance and ESG news and developments? Sign up now for a short demo appointment or for Compliance / ESG updates:
We extended the already existing function of querying the Swiss Commercial Register (SOGC), allowing to search SOGC entries not only on the basis of names (private persons or companies), but also on the basis of the company identification number. Both the old commercial register number (CH number) and the new company identification number (UID) are supported. The entry of the company name is no longer necessary if the identification number is available. First select the format used (Type) and enter the corresponding identification number.
For information purposes, the internationally used DUNS number (Dun&Bradstreet) can optionally be entered. However, an explicit search for this number is not possible yet.
New: Indication of available tools
The tools available in the toolbox now highlight whether all information is currently available for the use of the respective service, or whether further data would have to be added. For example, to use the Enhanced Due Diligence Assistant, the name of the person or the company must have been entered beforehand. For an address check, the respective address of the person or company. A tool is grayed out if some information is missing to use the tool. Which information you are missing exactly is displayed as a small note, the tooltip. To see the tooltip, just move the mouse pointer over the grayed-out tool. If all information is available, the tool will be displayed in red as usually.
With this adjustment, you can now very quickly and easily see which tools can already be used and for which ones further information would have to be added for use.
The new update will be implemented during the regular release window on Tuesday 22.03.2022 at 5pm.
We hope you enjoy the news and the update. If you have any questions about the new functionality, please contact the KYC Support Team.
With best regards from Zug
Your KYC Spider Team
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