Dow Jones Risk & Compliance

Dow Jones Risk & Compliance provides risk and compliance data and tooling, built on a database of more than four million records covering entities and individuals.

What distinguishes it is how that data is produced. The records are maintained by a multilingual team of researchers and analysts, with processes and controls subject to rigorous review, rather than being aggregated automatically from public sources.

Human research is not a nostalgic preference in this field, it is the requirement. Sanctions and politically exposed person screening depends on knowing that a name in one alphabet, transliterated inconsistently across jurisdictions, refers to the same individual as a name in another, and getting that wrong produces either a missed match with regulatory consequences or a false positive that blocks a legitimate customer. Multilingual analysts are what makes the distinction reliable.

The audiences are defined by role rather than by department, and sensibly so, since compliance is one of the few functions where the same data serves genuinely different purposes at different levels. Senior leaders need insight and benchmarking to know whether the programme is adequate, compliance professionals define policies and design programmes, and operational teams need reliable and efficient screening they can run at volume. Dow Jones emphasises that high-quality data is essential to an effective compliance programme. Pricing is not published.