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Contents
What watchlists are covered in Dow Jones?
Dow Jones Content Definition Guide
How often are the Records updated in Dow Jones?
What do I do if I believe a Dow Jones profile has been missed / has information missing from it?
What watchlists are covered in Dow Jones?
For a full breakdown of all of the data sets we get our information from, please view our live, non-exhaustive watchlist coverage feed HERE
Dow Jones Content Definition Guide
You can download / view the most up-to-date Dow Jones Content Definition Guide HERE
How often are the Records updated in Dow Jones?
Dow Jones have a content research team that monitor existing profiles to ensure any updates to the individual / entity are reflected. To check when a profile was last reviewed, you can view the 'watchlist last reviewed date' within the 'details tab' of the profile. It should be noted that the team are notified of any major changes (such as changes to sanctions / PEP statuses) to individuals / entities outside of their independent review of the profile.
Dow Jones Research team monitors sanctions lists from more than 50 sanctioning bodies using a thorough data collection, management and transfer methodology. Sanctions sources are monitored daily through a combination of proactive manual monitoring and automated alerts. Dow Jones aims to process updates to priority sanctions lists, which include sanctions lists published by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, United Nations, European Union or HM Treasury, within 24 business hours of the data being published or the sanctions coming into force if issued during working hours Monday to Friday. Unusually large and/or complex updates or those published on the weekend may take longer.
Dow Jones Risk & Compliance content is reviewed daily and continuously. It is updated as a result of media and source monitoring, carried out by the Research team daily to identify any events that might lead to creation of new profiles or changes to existing profiles on the database, such as changes to the political roles of an individual or changes to ownership of a company. The monitoring is against Factiva publications or across a wide range of online sources, depending on the content set. The websites of regulators, publishers of sanctions lists and other official lists are also monitored periodically to be able to pick up any changes to these lists as soon as possible and apply these updates to the database. Some content sets are also periodically reviewed to make sure that the information such as political roles in the Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) or state ownership in the State Owned Companies (SOC) content set is still up-to-date. Updates to profiles can also be made following requests from users of the database.
All updates to the Risk & Compliance data that are carried out by the Research team are available immediately in Dow Jones Risk & Compliance internet product versions, which are updated continuously throughout the day. Updates are then consolidated and distributed through Dow Jones Risk & Compliance feeds at established frequencies and reach KYC360 during our daily file feed.
Please note, for politically exposed classifications, Dow Jones rely on publicly available information to populate their profiles.
What do I do if I believe a Dow Jones profile has been missed / has information missing from it?
Please ensure the following considerations are taken when conducting searches:
- Use the legal name of the person or entity - Records will be held under the full legal name of the individual or entity, you should only conduct searches against the name of the individual / entity if you know it to be legally accurate.
- For individuals split each section of a name into its respective components i.e. break it down into Last Name, First Name and Middle Name fields; Where information is not readily available for long names, we recommend breaking the name down as first word in First Name, last word in Last Name and all other words in the Middle Name field, or alternatively searching the full name string in the last name field.
- For entities provide the full name of the entity in the Company field.
- Do not store First or Middle Names as initials
- Do not include Titles in the First Name field
- Do not include suffixes next to any name field Examples: (Deceased), Jr, III, etc.
- Do not include 2 Persons as a single record; Example: Mr & Mrs Jones
If you remain unable to locate an expected profile for an individual / entity, please view the following Dow Jones content definition guide to review their profile coverage criteria.
If the results generated are not what you believe you should see (and you have sufficient evidence to prove this) please raise a support ticket in our customer portal so that we can contact our data providers for an investigation. (If you are using our chatbot for support, please select NO this was not helpful so a ticket can be generated with our team)
Dow Jones Data Quality Report
You can view this report HERE