Garancie helps the world’s leading companies perform Public Record Due Diligence quickly and cost effectively around the globe. We help our clients risk-check individuals and companies in over 165 countries and territories in a way that is not achievable by any automated due diligence platforms on the market. Whether it’s offshore, emerging or mature markets, we have them all covered.
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Established in 2009 Garancie was one of the first companies to establish an accurate and efficient methodology to help companies carry out large-scale client and vendor due diligence, in a way that was transparent, legal, highly reliable and cost-effective.
We have completed over 10,000 investigative and due diligence assignments in over 165 countries and we look forward to helping your organisation manage its reputational and regulatory risks.
Whether it is enterprise-wide compliance screening or remediation, pre-deal due diligence or a component of a complex investigation, we can help you cover all the relevant bases of Public Record research, no matter the language or the country in question.
Hedley is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Garancie, and is also the owner and principal of Credence Background Screening, a sister company (credence.co.uk).
Hedley is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has over thirty years of experience in senior roles across a number of industries. Over the last twenty years, Hedley has worked in the background screening and investigations sector, having run and grown two companies, prior to establishing Garancie and Credence.
Barnabas is the Operations Director and Co-Founder of Garancie. Prior to establishing Garancie Barnabas was a senior member of the EMEA research team at a specialist Enhanced Due Diligence company. Before embarking on a career in Due Diligence Barnabas was a freelance journalist and entrepreneur. Speaking five languages, Barnabas applies his expertise to managing the research team and overseeing the quality of the research product. Barni regularly presents at industry forums on Public Record Due Diligence.
Client tailored, transparent risk management
We understand that the due diligence needs of our clients differ. We aim to tailor our searches to your individual requirements by picking the components that matter most to your organization. Broadly, our services fall into three categories – Light Touch Due Diligence, Enhanced Due Diligence and Custom research for our investigations focused clients.
'Light Touch Due Diligence' at Garancie is anything but. Designed for large scale on-boarding or remediation initiatives, our clients are able to take advantage of our world-class research methodology, which uses only Primary Source data to validate the details of companies and individuals around the world. Unlike our competitors, Garancie does not rely on secondary data, purchased from credit agencies and company data aggregators. We always source and corroborate information received from our clients in original government registries. So whether it is confirmation of company registration in Hong Kong, or the ownership of a partnership in Bavaria, you always get the official registry trail. No compromises, and no shortcuts.
Whilst this takes a little more effort than going to a single database, Garancie’s approach eliminate data quality risk, which can miss a change in the management or ownership of a company, due to the time lag and data quality issues which are present in secondary data aggregators. Our approach also means, that should things go wrong, you can be sure that your document trail is audit and regulator proof.
In 'Light Touch Due Diligence', we apply a “lean” search methodology, which focuses only on specific risk points, allowing you to meet your compliance needs quickly and cost effectively, without cutting corners.
Whilst the set of checks we can perform will differ depending on the type of disclosures that are required by law in any given territory, you can broadly expect to see:
Garancie prides itself on a market-leading Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) research methodology. We provides our clients with a fully-cited, auditable Due Diligence overview of all the relevant governmental disclosures relating to companies and individuals in the countries where our searches are done. Our media and internet research is always conducted in both English and whatever additional languages are required in each case. We will always obtain disclosure confirmation, be it regulatory, legal or financial, from the original government body overseeing the data.
Because we don’t resell secondary database information, our Enhanced Due Diligence reports meet the absolute highest standard of auditability, giving our clients total piece of mind about their regulatory and reputational risk.
Garancie's "Enhanced Due Diligence" methodology expands on Light Touch Due Diligence to include more thorough regulatory, financial and legal due diligence, going beyond the “Red Flags”, as well as a fully comprehensive Media and Internet search.
The exact searches we can perform may differ by country, based on the legal disclosure requirements in each jurisdiction. With EDD, there is no one size fits all, and Garancie will always maximise research capabilities in each case.
Please get in touch if you have any questions about the precise scope you can expect in a given country. We will be happy to advise
As experts in Primary Source data acquisition, Garancie is often approached by clients to assist in assignments that range from tracing and returning assets to fraud victims, supporting complex investigations, assisting expert witnesses and lawyers, and other situations where a documentary trail is a requisite to serve as evidence in legal proceedings.
We can help to piece together links between companies, people, advisors, and locations, based on publicly made disclosures in the most unexpected domains and the most difficult of jurisdictions. Conversely, public disclosure documents and registry entries can also help defence teams to piece together a case of reasonable doubt against the prosecution or against another side of a legal dispute.
Whether it is fraud related asset recovery, other asset tracing, matrimonial or commercial disputes, Garancie will be glad to discuss with you the capabilities of public record searches based on your individual circumstances.
"Did you know that Garancie built its own Luxembourg Directorship checks database? We collected hundreds of thousands of documents, company announcements covering over 25 years. This service has been available to our clients for many years and it has helped fraud investigators to uncover assets in Luxembourg and in other jurisdictions.”
Accurate and complete information provided by our global research capability no matter the subject, industry or jurisdiction. We are here to assist you.
Garancie Ltd
160 London Road
Sevenoaks, Kent
TN13 1BT
United Kingdom
