Ensure maritime compliance and reduce anti-financial crime on your disbursement accounts

DA-Desk enables you to automate and streamline due diligence, mitigate the risk of fraud and provide evidence of regulatory compliance 

Every port call is screened, including every appointment, every proforma disbursement account (PDA), and every final disbursement account (FDA).  

DA-Compliance® delivers trade and economic sanctions compliance, Know Your Counterparty (KYC) checks, bank account verification, information security compliance, payment approval and transaction monitoring, anti-financial crime (AFC) screening, Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance and Disbursement Account validation checks.

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DA-Desk is supported by a 60+ team of compliance researchers, analysts and sanctions specialists monitoring global trading and regulatory developments 24/7 to support our customers

Trade & economic sanctions compliance

Trade & economic sanctions compliance

Using data from multiple providers such as Dow Jones and Accuity, DA-Desk carries out screening and checks against:

  • Global sanctions lists which include OFAC, EU, US, UN, and other country-specific lists
  • Specially designated nationals (SDN) and non-SDN lists
  • Other official lists such as INTERPOL, state-owned entities, tax defaulters, amongst other lists

Know Your Counterparty (KYC) checks

Obtain KYC data and perform due diligence on your agents, vendors and suppliers

Cleanse and enhance the KYC data including:

  • Establishing if the name is a trading name or legal registered name
  • Perform verification of the address and contact details


Obtain and screen ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) information

Obtain source of funds information

 

Bank account verification

  • Continuous screening of beneficiary names and banks with IBAN / SWIFT validation
  • Perform enhanced due diligence if receive a request to make a payment to a jurisdiction different from that of the relevant counterparty
DA-Desk AFC compliance risk ebook

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How to reduce your maritime anti-financial crime compliance risks

Sanctions in the maritime industry are being imposed faster than ever before, and the high-pressured regulatory landscape means not only has your liability changed, but the anti-bribery and anti-money laundering compliance landscape is becoming increasingly complex.

Inside, you’ll discover:

  • How the maritime landscape of anti-financial crime compliance is changing
  • How Operations Directors can reduce anti-financial crime compliance risks
  • Survey results – how Operations Directors view AFC challenges
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Payment approval and transaction monitoring

  • Pre-payment and post-payment checking to help ensure that payment is processed successfully – if not, we get involved to resolve it
  • Running screening checks again on the bank and the beneficiaries of the payment, seconds before payments are released to our banking provider
Anti-financial crime screening

Anti-financial crime (AFC) screening

  • Screen all DAs and invoices and will not process an expense without supporting documentation
  • Perform fraudulent attempt checks, sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEPs), and adverse media screening
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Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act compliance

We are audited (Deloitte’s annual ISAE 3402 Type II audit), to complement and support your SOX compliance requirements:

  • DA-Desk controls are appropriately designed, tested, and implemented, thus complementing the customer’s audit requirements
  • Full record trail, books and records compliance. The DA-Desk platform allows for the uploading, collation, review, and retention of all supporting port call-related documentation
SOX Act compliance
Invoice and DA validation

Invoice and DA validation by DA Validation Engine (DAVE)

DA-Desk checks DAs and invoices for irregularities and inconsistencies in the value of those invoices – we do this combining our specialists and automation. DA-Desk’s proprietary system which does this is named as DA Validation Engine (DAVE).

Issues that arise are resolved directly by the DA-Desk team, providing you with two benefits:

  1. direct cost savings
  2. an added check on the legitimacy of invoices for fraud prevention, AML and ABC

DA-Desk assurance

Our IT systems, internal & external audits, controls and certifications give you confidence in DA-Desk as your compliance partner 

Our processes and controls are certified and compliant with: 

  • ISO 9001 Quality Management System 
  • ISO 27001 Information Security Management System  
  • ISO 14001 Health, Safety & Environment Management System 
  • ISO 45001 Occupational Health & Safety Management System
  • GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation 
  • ISAE 3402 Type 2 Report – Annual Service Auditor’s Report
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