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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 scale 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.

A KYB check tells you whether something was true when you looked. It doesn't tell you whether it's still true now. Most ...
03/11/2026

A KYB check tells you whether something was true when you looked.

It doesn't tell you whether it's still true now.

Most KYB programmes still operate on a single-event model: verify at onboarding, file the result, and revisit only on a fixed schedule. That meets the letter of a re-verification requirement while missing the substance of ongoing monitoring, which is that a material change should surface when it happens, not whenever the next scheduled review falls.

The gap matters more across the Middle East and Africa specifically. Where the underlying registry environment doesn't compel an ownership change to surface on its own, a periodic re-check inherits that same lag.

Our latest blog looks at what continuous monitoring actually means for KYB and why it's not the same thing as the transaction monitoring most AML programmes already run.

Read the article: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0zpStn0

Cedar Rose will be represented by Chinmay Lath, our Key Account Director, as a speaker at the 12th MENA RegTech Conferen...
30/10/2026

Cedar Rose will be represented by Chinmay Lath, our Key Account Director, as a speaker at the 12th MENA RegTech Conference in Dubai.

Chinmay will contribute to the session “Screening Is Not Evidence: The Data Gap Inside Your Compliance Stack", exploring the importance of reliable data and supporting evidence in compliance decisions.

Leading our business across the GCC and the Indian subcontinent, Chinmay brings close to a decade of experience across LSEG, including Refinitiv and Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, DHL and ZS. His work spans banks, financial institutions, fintechs and regulated businesses, with a focus on financial compliance, enhanced due diligence and risk data solutions.

He will bring a practical perspective on how company intelligence and KYB data can help organisations strengthen due diligence and make informed compliance decisions.

We look forward to sharing our expertise and exchanging insights with fellow compliance and RegTech professionals.

Date: 5 November 2026
Venue: Millennium Airport Hotel Dubai, UAE
Join us in Dubai.
View the agenda and register your interest: https://conferencescs.com/events/upcoming-physical-events/12th-regtech/

FATF's own guidance says commercial databases alone are not sufficient to meet PEP compliance requirements. Most automat...
27/10/2026

FATF's own guidance says commercial databases alone are not sufficient to meet PEP compliance requirements.

Most automated screening tools surface a PEP flag and a sanctions match the exact same way: a name matched against a reference list.

The two findings are not the same thing. A PEP designation calls for enhanced due diligence under a risk-based approach. A sanctions match calls for an immediate freeze under strict liability, meaning intent doesn't matter if you get it wrong.

Our latest blog looks at why an automated system can confirm the match but not the classification and what that means for how a compliance screening programme should actually be built.

A name match is the beginning of the process. Not the end of it.

Read the article: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0zpSpP0

A bank's sanctions screening system flagged a designated individual 14 days late. Not because the system was inaccurate....
21/10/2026

A bank's sanctions screening system flagged a designated individual 14 days late.

Not because the system was inaccurate. Because it was configured to screen its full customer base monthly, not daily, and nobody had checked that assumption against what compliance actually required. It's one of three ways the answer to "is AI accurate enough" turns out to depend entirely on which question you're actually asking.

Structured extraction: strong evidence. Judgement calls that can't be independently verified: weaker evidence and hallucination risk that risk officers themselves flag as a real problem. And regardless of either, a system's accuracy means nothing if its configuration was never checked.

Three categories. One accuracy question. Very different answers.

Read the article: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0z7lNJ0

Most business verification tools were built for a different kind of market: one registry, one script, one predictable up...
14/10/2026

Most business verification tools were built for a different kind of market: one registry, one script, one predictable update cycle.

That's not the environment across the Middle East and Africa.

Registry fragmentation. Layered ownership structures spanning multiple jurisdictions. Naming conventions that shift across Arabic, French, and English records. Regulatory expectations that vary by country, sometimes within the same organisation's own footprint.

In a region where independent verification of beneficial ownership is still the exception rather than the norm, a search against a single source can look complete while missing a more current record sitting somewhere else entirely.

Our latest blog breaks down four structural realities that make MEA verification genuinely harder, not just slower, and what that means for how due diligence teams should actually approach it.

Read the article: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0z3hmp0

AI can now process a KYB file in hours instead of days. It still can't decide whether the risk it finds is acceptable. T...
12/10/2026

AI can now process a KYB file in hours instead of days.

It still can't decide whether the risk it finds is acceptable.

That distinction is the subject of our new white paper, Faster Verification, Same Decision: AI and the Future of KYB in MEA.

Across the Middle East and Africa specifically, the gap between what AI has genuinely changed and what it hasn't matters more than in more data-mature markets. Fragmented registries. Layered ownership structures. Naming conventions that shift across Arabic, French, and English records. None of that goes away because the screening got faster.

Our position is straightforward: Cedar Rose informs. Programme operators decide. Automation changes how quickly you reach that decision point. It doesn't change who is accountable for it.

Read the full argument and download the white paper below.

Download: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0y_rnN0

Applicant-only screening can come back completely clean. No PEP match, no sanctions hit, no adverse media.And the risk c...
15/09/2026

Applicant-only screening can come back completely clean. No PEP match, no sanctions hit, no adverse media.

And the risk can still be one step away: in a company they control, a business partner, or a related entity carrying exactly what the applicant-level check missed.

For CBI applicants specifically, whose interests often span multiple entities and jurisdictions, mapping beneficial ownership and connected parties is frequently where the real risk assessment happens.

Read it here: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0yk3rX0

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

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2A Omiros & Araouzos Tower, 25 Olympion Street
Limassol
3035

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 18:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 18:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 18:00
Thursday 09:00 - 18:00
Friday 09:00 - 18:00

Telephone

+35725346630

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