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Politically Exposed Persons (PEP)
pep’s are considered to pose an elevated risk due to the status and influence of the position they hold as it relates to corruption and bribery the financial action task force (fatf) is an independent multi government body that creates policies and standards globally to protect against money laundering, counter terrorist financing, and financing of weapons of mass destruction fatf recognizes the process of performing politically exposed persons checks signzy's politically exposed persons screening uses data from government databases, a lot of other data sources & analyze media sources daily to uncover pep associations not listed by governments or other common sources looking at family members and close associates as well as the individual in question how fatf defines politically exposed person(s), pep(s) foreign and domestic politically exposed person(s) are individuals who are or have been entrusted with prominent public functions by a foreign country for example, heads of state or of government, judicial or military officials, senior executives of state owned corporations, important political party officials also, person(s) who are or have been entrusted with a prominent function by an international organization refers to members of senior management, i e , director, deputy directors and members of the board of equivalent functions at signzy, our team monitors and audits individuals who are identified as pep globally we ensure that our database is highly accurate and provide broad coverage to peps and their relationships we go through a series of steps to ensure integrity and accuracy of our database those steps are given below step 1 firstly, we collect data from all government and official source sites for finding existing and new pep profiles step 2 then, we use relationship extraction algorithm to continuously search, identify and extract public data from over 20,000 qualified global media sources this enables us to identify existing and new officials taking office, which automatically enhances much faster and accurately than legacy methods this covers additional pep level 1, 2 and 3 information (pep’s, family members & associations), then is analyzed through machine learning and applied to enhance our pep database step 3 analyst team is responsible for in depth web analysis and the review of the pep data our relationship extraction algorithms obtain, where they assist our system in the machine learning process politically exposed person(s) source examples allgov, archontology org, ballotpedia, barcelona centre for int affairs, bbc, biography, bioguide, center on global energy policy, central intelligence agency, election in, europa, everypolitician, geneology com, house of representatives, infoplease, international plypic committee, latham and watkins, littlesis, mon nire fr, national portal of india, open register of domestic pep's, people pill, planet rulers, portale storia, ranker, rulers org, the famous people, the hill, white house, wiki data, world leaders index, world statesmen org, zarate's political collections politically exposed persons (pep) categories abbreviation name allpp all pep categories sample input curl location request post 'https //api signzy app/api/v3/global/pep nm wls' \\ \ header 'authorization < auth token >'\\ \ header 'content type application/json' \\ \ data raw '{ "subject" "donald trump", "categories" "allpp", "aliases" \[ "potus" ], "needstranslation" false, "dateofbirthfilter" false }' sample output json { "result" { "recordsfound" true, "subject" "donald trump", "results" { "wlsresults" null, "nmresults" null, "pepresults" \[ { "productid" "pep", "score" 1, "profileid" 73616, "resultid" 1, "country" "united states of america", "countrycode" "usa", "name" "donald trump", "gender" "male", "placeofbirth" "queens, ny", "dateofbirth" "1946 06 14", "dateofdeath" null, "birthname" "donald john trump", "nativename" "donald trump", "professionalhistory" \[ "president of the united states of america", "director", "chairperson", "business person", "political candidate", "senior white house adviser, anthony pugliese", "un ambassador, nikki haley", "campaign manager, brad parscale", "assistant to the president, office of american innovation, brooke rollins", "white house counsel, donald f mcgahn ii", "executive branch", "director of the office of surface mining reclamation and enforcement, steven gardner", "trump nominee to head women's bureau, patricia g green", "deputy chief of staff, kirstjen nielsen", "djt holdings managing member llc", "trump international hotels management llc", "transition team member, kris kobach", "head of interior transition team, doug domenech", "reform party", "william daniel johnson", "colorado campaign director, patrick davis", "senior white house advisor epa transition, don benton", "the trump organization llc", "julie kirchner", "senior advisor to 2016 campaign, jason osborne", "senior advisor to 2016 campaign, ed brookover", "energy secretary, rick perry", }