Third-party due diligence means checking the businesses you rely on and who runs them. Why agents and distributors get a closer look, and where to start.
AML compliance is the program banks and other regulated businesses must run. What it includes, who's required, and the screening piece lenders and investors need.
A free due diligence checklist in Excel: 61 items across financial, legal, operational, HR, IP, and public-records checks, with owners, status tracking, and a summary.
Vendor credentialing keeps licenses and insurance current. Liens, judgments, and lawsuits never come up for renewal, so a credential needs a second layer.
An asset search shows what a judgment debtor owns, what is already pledged, and which liens stand ahead of yours, before you spend on enforcement.
A marketplace seller onboarding standard ordered by what actually flags: registration, judgments and liens, licenses, owners, then how to decide and re-check.
A first pass on a founder you can run in about an hour, covering which free public records to search, what they surface, and where they stop.
What a UCC filing is, what it secures, how the five-year clock works, and how to find UCC filings on a business before you lend, buy, or sign.
How Yieldi screens borrowers across a $260M asset-based loan book, what their reports catch, and how findings change deal terms.
A map for vetting a company before a deal: the six checks worth running, in priority order, three ways to source each, and where to go deeper on any of them.
What to verify on a borrower before you wire, which records answer which question, and how to read a lien or judgment that comes back with something on it.
The nine due diligence red flags worth a closer look, what each one signals, and whether it sits with the business or the people behind it.
A counterparty's identity is four separate checks, not one. What each one confirms, where each gives way, and how far up the list a given deal goes.
A clean tax lien search means no Notice was recorded where you looked. Why a federal tax lien can exist before that, and what narrows the gap.
A due diligence background check is not a pre-employment check. What it covers on a company and its principals, and how often it finds something.
Recent commercial mortgage fraud schemes cleared underwriting on forged documents. What the sponsors' court records showed before the loans closed.
Borrowers write their own track record. A lender's guide to verifying claimed experience, four ways to run it, what each costs, and what each misses.
A dismissed case, a no-records-found, an old conviction. Three findings a business background check returns that get read wrong, and what each really means.
What a vendor background check should cover on a vendor and its principals, where a fast search thins out, and how to pick the right depth for each vendor.
A business lien search can come back clean on a counterparty that is not. What each of the five record layers confirms, and what its silence is actually worth.
A step-by-step vendor screening process for a new supplier. How deep to go, what to run in what order, and when to escalate beyond an automated screen.
Fraud risk management usually looks inward at transactions. Here is what a counterparty's own records reveal, and how deep to go on any given deal.
Database screening or investigative due diligence? What each one settles, what going deeper actually surfaces, and how to decide which a given check needs.
Our entry-level screening has a new name. An investigator now reviews flagged hits before they reach you, and returns them in up to two business days.
A practical walkthrough of how to run a background check on a business, from confirming the entity through screening the principals and verifying the findings.
Beneficial ownership records tell you what was filed, not who controls a business. What a UBO check confirms, where it stops, and what investigators do next.
What sanctions screening confirms on a business, why a potential match is not a confirmed hit, and where a clean screen stops short of full diligence.
A practical checklist for prequalifying a subcontractor before work starts, covering entity, license, insurance, liens, and the people behind the business.
KYB verification confirms a business is registered and real. See what the full KYB stack adds on top, and when a registration check is enough.
For business due diligence, a non-FCRA background check does not require the subject's consent. Here is where the line sits and when the FCRA rules apply.
A clean due diligence company check can mean a company is clean, or that a recent lien hasn't surfaced yet. Here's when an empty result is worth confirming.
A plain guide to what liens, judgments, and small civil claims say about a company, and how a business lien search and judgment search surface them.
Every due diligence investigation runs against one subject. See how the right entity and the people behind it get confirmed before a screen runs.
Vendor due diligence tests what a supplier reports about itself, ownership, sanctions, insurance, finances, against independent records. Here's how, and when.
What adverse media screening covers, why common names create so much of the noise, and how to tell a real signal from a false match on a counterparty.
Point-in-time screening checks a counterparty once. Continuous monitoring keeps watching. Here's how to tell which one a relationship actually needs.
Not every deal needs an investigator. Here is how to right-size business due diligence and when to escalate a screen to source verification.
A complete business background check covers both the entity and the people running it. Here's what entity-only screening misses about the principal.
Learn how to automate corporate background checks and due diligence with BusinessScreen.com’s AI-powered solutions for global compliance and risk management.
Learn what secondary sanctions are, how the U.S. enforces them, and what they mean for businesses screening counterparties abroad.
Compliance missteps with FCRA background checks can lead to lawsuits. Learn the difference between FCRA and non-FCRA use cases to protect your business.
Wondering how investigator-led insights can give lenders more clarity than database-only tools? Here, we compare Business Screen and Thomson Reuters CLEAR.
Tax lien filings can reveal financial risks and legal complexities in business deals. Read now for our actionable tips to avoid costly pitfalls.
Commercial tenant screening reduces risks and ensures long-term profitability for landlords. Discover best practices to protect your investment today!
M&A due diligence is vital for assessing financial, legal and other risks before mergers and acquisitions. Explore our guide to ensure a successful deal.
Contractor background checks protect your business from legal, financial, and reputational risks. Get insights for your enterprise with our guide.
What vendor risk management covers: the financial, legal, and reputational risks vendors bring, and how to screen suppliers before and during the relationship.
Customer Due Diligence made practical: verify, monitor, and reduce risk across the customer lifecycle.
A commercial real estate due diligence checklist for the parties to a deal, from sellers and sponsors to tenants and contractors, and what to check on each.
What a lien is, the types businesses run into, and how to search county, state, and court records for liens on a company or property.
Compare due diligence companies with a clear 10-point rubric. Learn how to evaluate providers, verify data quality, and choose the right partner.
A phase-by-phase checklist for buying a small business: what to check before the LOI, during confirmatory diligence, and after close.
This step-by-step guide for how to find civil case records will help you uncover the information you need before making important decisions.
What a background check on Nightingale and its CEO would have shown before the $63M CrowdStreet fraud, what it couldn't, and how the case ended.
Get a business credit report in 2025 and uncover financial, legal, and ownership risks with verified insights from BusinessScreen.com.
Compare Dun & Bradstreet reports with business background checks to see which offers more reliable and detailed information. Learn how investigator-verified data can protect your business from potential risks and inaccuracies. Find out which service best meets your needs.
AI chatbots like ChatGPT can be a valuable asset in conducting a simple background check on a company.
If you own a preferred business network, association, or group, you know that building and maintaining strong connections is crucial to your success. But have you ever stopped to consider the risks of not conducting background checks on the companies you allow into your network?
A referral tells you someone trusts a business, not what's in its public record. Our founder's account of a referred vendor who took $600,000.
Ensure you conduct a comprehensive criminal record search when conducting due diligence. Learn the various types of court searches and why a national criminal record search may not be enough.
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