Cedar Rose Int Services Ltd

Cedar Rose Int Services Ltd Established in 1997, Cedar Rose has evolved into a global leader in business intelligence, credit risk, and due diligence solutions.

Cedar Rose is a multi award-winning business intelligence company which provides data solutions for automated and manual decision making during the customer on-boarding, compliance and credit analysis processes. Joined Coface Group in 2025, a worldwide leader in credit insurance and risk management. Cedar Rose combines the deep regional expertise of a specialist provider with the strength and scal

e of an international network. With one of the world’s largest corporate and legal entity databases, we have been empowering clients for over 27 years with trusted, accurate, and fully verified data. Our solutions are designed to help businesses manage risk, meet regulatory demands, and make confident, well-informed decisions in an increasingly complex world. Our proprietary platform, CRiS Intel, offers intuitive access to global risk and compliance tools, enabling organisations to assess creditworthiness, uncover ultimate beneficial ownership, manage regulatory obligations, and conduct enhanced due diligence with ease. We continue to be recognised as a market leader in credit reporting, with our MENA-focused credit reports delivering comprehensive, timely, and reliable insights on businesses across the region and beyond. In addition, our data licensing services provide verified and up-to-date information that clients can leverage to gain competitive advantage, reveal untapped market insights, and even create new revenue streams. Through our extensive due diligence capabilities and Compliance-as-a-Service model, we help clients expose hidden risks, whether at the entity or individual level, and maintain a strong compliance posture. As an ISO 27001-certified and GDPR-compliant provider, Cedar Rose remains committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy. With unmatched regional insight, a global perspective, and a team dedicated to precision and client success, we continue to support our partners with the intelligence they need to grow with confidence in any market.

Cedar Rose x CleverChain: verified intelligence, automated outcomes across MENAWe're pleased to announce our new commerc...
09/09/2026

Cedar Rose x CleverChain: verified intelligence, automated outcomes across MENA

We're pleased to announce our new commercial partnership with CleverChain, a leading RegTech provider of AI-powered due diligence and AML solutions.

The partnership brings together Cedar Rose's verified regional business information and investigative depth with CleverChain's contextual intelligence engine and policy-driven automation.

Together, we will help organisations address the full due diligence workflow in a single process, from corporate verification and KYB to UBO identification, enhanced due diligence, third-party and supplier onboarding, and ongoing monitoring, across MENA and beyond.

The partnership will initially focus on opportunities across the Middle East and North Africa, with scope to support selected opportunities in the UK and Asia.

We look forward to working with the CleverChain team and bringing our combined capabilities to organisations operating across complex markets.

Discover more: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0y9N120

A confirmed PEP match doesn't mean an applicant should be refused.A confirmed sanctions match is a different matter enti...
08/09/2026

A confirmed PEP match doesn't mean an applicant should be refused.

A confirmed sanctions match is a different matter entirely and needs to be escalated immediately.

Treating these two findings the same way is one of the more consequential mistakes in CBI due diligence, and it happens more often than it should.

Our latest article breaks down when a Citizenship by Investment application actually requires Enhanced Due Diligence, the specific indicators that should trigger it, and why a screening match is a starting point for investigation, not a conclusion.

Read it here: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0y7HcL0

A clean identity check tells you an applicant is who they say they are.It does not tell you how their wealth was built, ...
01/09/2026

A clean identity check tells you an applicant is who they say they are.

It does not tell you how their wealth was built, whether the funds behind a Citizenship by Investment application are legitimately sourced, or whom the applicant is connected to.

That gap is where most of the real risk in a CBI file sits, and it is why we have just published our Citizenship by Investment Due Diligence Guide.

Inside: a practical, six-stage framework for assessing CBI applicant risk, built for compliance officers, risk managers, and due diligence professionals working on citizenship and residency programmes.

Identify. Verify. Screen. Investigate. Assess. Monitor.

Download the guide: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0xZHzC0

The gap in KYB isn't the data. It's the boundary you draw around it.89.62% of flagged companies in our dataset have dire...
19/08/2026

The gap in KYB isn't the data. It's the boundary you draw around it.
89.62% of flagged companies in our dataset have director or manager connections to other entities. In Oman, that number reaches 97%.

Here's what that means in practice: a legal event — bankruptcy, liquidation, litigation — gets recorded against one company. But the people who govern that company rarely govern only that company.

So a counterparty can pass a clean entity-level check today while sitting one board seat away from a company already in liquidation.

Entity-level screening asks: 'Does this company have a legal event on record?' Network-level screening asks: 'Does anything in its network have one?'

Those are two different risk pictures. Only one of them is complete.
We break down what network-level KYB actually requires: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0xJVNB0

Not every jurisdiction shows the same risk pattern — and not every market should be monitored in the same way.Our analys...
18/08/2026

Not every jurisdiction shows the same risk pattern — and not every market should be monitored in the same way.

Our analysis of legal-event activity across six jurisdictions highlights two distinct patterns.

Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Morocco are showing stronger growth in new legal-event cases, with Tunisia recording a significant increase in activity since 2020.

These can be viewed as “flow” markets, where the key questions are: What is changing now? Where is activity accelerating? And what could develop next?

Cyprus, Oman, and the UAE show a different pattern — substantial historical case volumes, but comparatively lower levels of new-case activity today.

These markets require a different focus: understanding historical exposure, relationships, ownership structures, and how entities may be connected.

Using the same monitoring approach across both patterns can create blind spots — directing too much attention towards stable activity while missing jurisdictions where legal events are increasing.

For due diligence and compliance teams, the distinction matters. Effective monitoring is not simply about collecting more information; it is about knowing where to look, what to track, and how frequently to reassess risk.

Our full analysis examines all six jurisdictions and what these patterns could mean for due diligence teams.

Read the full analysis: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0xH-t80

Note: The map is provided for illustrative and analytical purposes only. It reflects the jurisdictions covered in this analysis and does not represent a position on sovereignty, territorial status, political boundaries, or the legal status of any disputed territory. Country and territory names are used solely to identify the geographic scope of the analysis.

58,926 companies. Six jurisdictions. One pattern most compliance teams are missing.Public notices – bankruptcy filings, ...
05/08/2026

58,926 companies. Six jurisdictions. One pattern most compliance teams are missing.

Public notices – bankruptcy filings, liquidations, court actions, and deregistration – are legally mandated disclosures. They're published by courts and regulators. By design, they're public.

Yet most organisations treat them as administrative footnotes: a record to check once a counterparty's status changes, not a signal to act on before it does.

That's the gap. Record-keeping answers "what happened?" Risk intelligence answers "what's likely to happen next — and to whom else."
The difference isn't access to data. It's how consistently that data gets monitored.

We break down why static, point-in-time screening misses what continuous monitoring catches.

Read the article: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0xrP260

Have you registered for the Cedar Rose x MEACA webinar? Sanctions, regulatory developments, supply-chain exposure, and g...
27/07/2026

Have you registered for the Cedar Rose x MEACA webinar?

Sanctions, regulatory developments, supply-chain exposure, and geopolitical uncertainty can change business risk overnight.

Join leading compliance and risk professionals for a practical discussion on how organisations can respond, strengthen their frameworks, and protect business continuity.

When the Map Changes Overnight: Sanctions, Risk & Survival in the Middle East
📅 Thursday, 30 July 2026
🕒 3:00–4:00 p.m. UAE time
📍 Online

Hear from:
• Ross Barlow, Director at KPMG
• Paul Costers, Chief Sales Officer at Cedar Rose
• Svetlana Makarova, Global Compliance Leader at Nokia
• Gabriela Gutiérrez, Chief Compliance Officer at VEON

The session will cover sanctions and regulatory risk, third-party exposure, supply-chain disruption, emerging fraud, and practical actions businesses can take.

A live audience Q&A will also be included.

Register now: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0xbFjx0

Cedar Rose x MEACA Webinar: When the Map Changes Overnight Sanctions, regulatory changes, supply-chain disruption, and e...
22/07/2026

Cedar Rose x MEACA Webinar: When the Map Changes Overnight

Sanctions, regulatory changes, supply-chain disruption, and emerging fraud can reshape business risk overnight.

Join Cedar Rose and the Middle East & Africa Compliance Association for an expert discussion on how organisations can respond to a fast-changing risk environment across the Middle East.

When the Map Changes Overnight: Sanctions, Risk & Survival in the Middle East
📅 Thursday, 30 July 2026
🕒 3:00–4:00 p.m. UAE time
📍 Online

Hear practical insights from:
• Ross Barlow, Director at KPMG
• Paul Costers, Chief Sales Officer at Cedar Rose
• Svetlana Makarova, Global Compliance Leader at Nokia
• Gabriela Gutiérrez, Chief Compliance Officer at VEON

The panel will explore sanctions and regulatory risk, third-party and supply-chain exposure, emerging fraud, investigations, and practical steps to protect business continuity.

The session will also include a live audience Q&A.

Register for the webinar: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0x57zC0

Not all data enrichment providers are built for compliance. Many platforms are designed to complete sales and marketing ...
21/07/2026

Not all data enrichment providers are built for compliance.

Many platforms are designed to complete sales and marketing records, but compliance teams need more than contact details and company profiles.

For AML, KYB, sanctions screening, and customer due diligence, enriched data must be accurate, traceable, regularly updated, and defensible to regulators.

This is especially important in markets where corporate registries, beneficial ownership data, and public records are not always easy to access or verify.

The right provider should help compliance teams understand who they are really doing business with, reduce false positives, and support audit-ready decision-making.

Is your organisation evaluating data enrichment providers based on volume or on data quality, source verification, and regulatory defensibility?

Read the full article to learn how compliance and risk teams can evaluate data enrichment providers more effectively: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0x2-b50

Many organisations still rely on traditional AML checks to detect financial crime. In reality, static rules, fixed thres...
14/07/2026

Many organisations still rely on traditional AML checks to detect financial crime.

In reality, static rules, fixed thresholds, and high volumes of false positives can make it harder for compliance teams to identify the risks that truly matter.

AI and automation are reshaping anti-money laundering checks by enabling real-time monitoring, behavioural risk scoring, smarter sanctions and PEP screening, and faster first-level alert triage.

For institutions operating across high-risk and cross-border markets, the priority is not just adopting new technology. It ensures that AI-driven AML systems are supported by reliable data, explainable models, and continued human oversight.

Is your organisation’s AML process built to keep pace with evolving financial crime risks?

Read the full article to learn how AI and automation are changing anti-money laundering checks: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0wXczW0

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