Due diligence, verification and background research — done properly, shown clearly.
AUSTRAC published new guidance on customer identification for digital onboarding. Short version: your liveness check needs to be an actual check.
Anyone in Chicago need the kids looked after for an interview morning? Free, on 100quid, I work from home. Link in my profile.
For anyone doing checks in the Balkans: court records are searchable online in Croatia and Slovenia, partly in Serbia, and mostly not in Bosnia. Plan for a site visit.
The Portuguese registry now needs a certified extract for anything older than 2010. Budget an extra two days if you need history.
Tuned a screening tool from 30% false positives to 6% for a broker this week by fixing how it handled name order. Half of compliance is data hygiene.
False-positive rate on a 500-name batch this week: 11%. Most were common Arabic and Chinese names matching on a transliteration. This is why a human reads the hits.
Reminder that the NZ Companies Office shows struck-off companies with a very small grey label. Two clients this month nearly missed it. Read the status line first.
Question: how do people here handle a "no adverse findings" result? I write out every source searched, with dates, so the reader knows what "clean" covers. Curious what others do.
Skill swap: I do a handful of identity checks for your onboarding, you teach me Catalan (or better Spanish). Serious offers only, my Catalan is genuinely bad.
Looking for someone to verify STCW and flag-state certificates for ~30 crew a month against the issuing authorities. Fixed budget per month.
Client is selling a 50 ft cat to a buyer paying from a company account. Need a check on the company and director before the deposit lands. NZ or AU, quote please.
NZ company and director check for NZ$150: Companies Office, PPSR, insolvency and court search, and a memo saying whether anything worries me.
OSINT counterparty profiles, hourly. Every finding with source and retrieval date; "nothing found" says what was searched.
Batch sanctions and PEP screening, up to 500 names, £250. Every hit reviewed by a human with a written rationale.
Hola desde Barcelona. Identity verification by remote video: documents, liveness, and a clear yes / no / needs-a-human. Also looking to swap checks for Spanish or Catalan lessons.
Hello from Singapore. Sanctions screening set-ups for small firms, MAS-flavoured. I teach people what a false positive looks like so they stop panicking.
AML/KYC analyst in London, ex-bank. Batch sanctions and PEP screening with a written rationale for every hit. Ask me about false positives; I have opinions.
Melbourne. KYC/AML consultant, AUSTRAC programme reviews. Practical not theoretical, and I've read your policy document so you don't have to.
Bok! Background checks across the Western Balkans from Zagreb. Court records, registries and press in four languages.
OSINT researcher in Kyiv. Counterparties, beneficial owners, footprints — every finding with a source and a date. Open sources only, always.
Identity verification · documents, liveness, remote video
Barcelona, Spain
4.0 (1)KYC / AML consultant for Australian firms
Melbourne, Australia
Data matching and entity resolution engineer
Chicago, United States
Sanctions compliance · list monitoring and screening set-up
Singapore, Singapore
Background checks across the Western Balkans
Zagreb, Croatia
Company registry research, Iberia and France
Porto, Portugal
AML / KYC analyst · sanctions and PEP screening
London, United Kingdom
OSINT researcher · counterparties, beneficial owners, footprints
Kyiv, Ukraine
Founder, dd.geek.nz · company and vendor due diligence
Christchurch, New Zealand
5.0 (2)Translator (Arabic ↔ English ↔ Dutch) and research assistant
Amsterdam, Netherlands
CV writer and reference checker
Toronto, Canada
Crew agent, Batumi · Black Sea and Mediterranean
Batumi, Georgia
dd.geek.nz is a community of people who check things before other people rely on them: company and director checks, identity verification, sanctions and PEP screening, open-source research on a counterparty, KYC onboarding design, and the unglamorous data matching that makes all of it possible. It began in Christchurch and now has members on most continents, which matters because the registry you need is rarely in your own country.
Work here is evidence-first. A finding says where it came from, when it was retrieved and how confident the researcher is; a "clean" result says what was searched and what was not. Members offer fixed-price checks, hourly research, day-rate audits and the occasional skill swap, and they ask each other for help with jurisdictions they do not know.
Only open and lawfully obtained sources, no pretexting, no scraping behind logins, and nothing that would embarrass you if the subject read it. The community team verifies members who work under a professional licence or a firm's compliance programme.