38 authorities.
One report.
Every public register, sanctions list, regulator and court record we read, what each one is, and who publishes it, read fresh at the moment your report is written.
Statutory registers · the public record
The official registers maintained by UK government bodies and devolved regulators. The legal record of who exists, who runs them, and what they've filed.
The statutory register of every company incorporated in the United Kingdom. We read the full filing history, officers, persons of significant control, charges, and confirmation statements.
Register of all charities operating in England and Wales. We read trustee lists, governing documents, regulatory cases, annual returns and audited accounts.
The Scottish equivalent of the Charity Commission. Read for any entity registered as a Scottish charity, including trustees and accounts.
Register of charities operating in Northern Ireland. Cross-checked for any entity declaring NI operations or trustees.
The UK's beneficial ownership register. We read every named PSC and screen each against all three sanctions lists, plus the disqualified persons register.
Live register of insolvency proceedings, bankruptcy orders, debt relief orders, and disqualified directors. Critical for solvency signals on company reports.
Charities recognised by HMRC for tax purposes (Gift Aid, charitable rates relief). Cross-checked to confirm a charity's tax-recognised status.
Directors disqualified from acting as a company director. Every officer and PSC in the report is cross-checked against this register.
Trustees disqualified by the Charity Commission. Cross-checked for every named trustee on a charity report.
The official journal of public record. We read notices of insolvency, dissolution, wind-up petitions, and other statutory notices relevant to the entity.
The Scottish and Northern Irish official journals of record, parallel to The London Gazette. Read for any entity with Scottish or NI activity.
Register of co-operative and community benefit societies, friendly societies, and credit unions. Read for any entity registered as a mutual.
Sanctions lists · three primary, four allied
Every named person in the report, trustees, directors, persons of significant control, is screened against three primary sanctions lists and four allied registers.
The UK's authoritative sanctions list. Approximately 5,135 designated persons, entities and vessels. The primary screen on every Probitas report.
The United States' flagship sanctions list. ~16,000 entries including alias names. Screened to catch UK-incorporated entities with US-designated principals.
The list of individuals and entities subject to UN Security Council sanctions regimes. ~700 entries. The baseline international screen.
The European Union's consolidated sanctions database. Cross-screened for any entity with EU-resident principals or trade exposure.
Switzerland's sanctions register. Cross-checked for designations that may not appear on OFSI or OFAC, particularly in financial-secrecy jurisdictions.
Australia's sanctions register. Read as an allied jurisdiction screen, particularly for Indo-Pacific-linked entities.
Canada's sanctions list under the Special Economic Measures Act and Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act.
Regulators · enforcement & conduct
The UK regulators that publish enforcement actions, conduct notices and registers of authorised persons. Read for both authorisation status and adverse history.
The register of every individual and firm authorised by the FCA. Includes scope of permissions, exemptions, and a five-year history of regulatory action.
Public archive of FCA enforcement actions, fines, prohibitions and final notices against firms and individuals. Read for the last ten years.
The UK's prudential regulator for banks, insurers and major investment firms. Read for authorisation status and supervisory notices.
UK data-protection regulator. Read for monetary penalty notices, enforcement actions, and reprimand letters against the entity.
Decisions, infringements, and merger interventions. Read for competition-law exposure on company reports.
Public register of health-and-safety prosecutions and enforcement notices. Read for the entity and named officers.
Register of prohibited and disqualified trustees, and notices of regulatory action against pension scheme sponsors.
Courts & tribunals · the written judgement
Published judgements and decisions of UK courts and tribunals, read for any named officer, trustee, PSC, or the entity itself.
Published judgements of the High Court, Court of Appeal and Crown Court for England & Wales. Read by named-party search.
Published opinions of the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary. Read for Scottish-registered entities and their principals.
Published Supreme Court decisions. Read by named-party search for any precedent involving the entity or its principals.
Published employment tribunal judgements. Read for the entity as respondent, signals on conduct, discrimination, dismissal.
Decisions of the Charity Tribunal, including appeals against Charity Commission enforcement. Read for the charity and its trustees.
Upper Tribunal decisions on tax, chancery and lands matters. Read for principals named in published appeals.
Press & open-source intelligence · the public conversation
Wire-service and broadsheet coverage of the entity, screened for adverse mentions. We only cite published reporting from named outlets, never anonymous forums or social media.
Reuters reporting on the entity, indexed by named-party. Read for the most recent five years of coverage.
FT coverage of the entity. Read for adverse coverage indexed by name, with attention to investigations, regulatory issues, and litigation.
BBC reporting indexed by named-party, including regional bureaux. Read for public-interest reporting that may not surface on financial wires.
Coverage and investigative reporting from The Guardian and The Observer. Read for the most recent five years.
PA Media's national wire, which feeds most UK regional press. Read for regional coverage that does not appear on broadsheet feeds.
Financial filings · the numbers themselves
We don't read summaries of the accounts. We read the audited accounts as filed. The auditor's opinion, the notes, the cash position, the reserves policy, the raw filing.
The actual filed PDF of the most recent audited or independently examined accounts. We extract reserves, income, expenditure, the auditor's opinion, going-concern statement, and the notes on related-party transactions.
Sources are only useful
if you read them properly.
Read live, not cached.
Every source is fetched at the moment of generation. The report's footer prints the read time of each one, you can check we're not serving last week's data.
Cross-check before you cite.
A claim from one source is held back until at least one other source confirms it, or the claim is marked 'single-source' in the report. We don't hide where we're only seeing one side of the picture.
Cite the primary record, not the summary.
Where a regulator publishes both a summary and the underlying filing, we cite the filing. Where a wire service reports on a court judgement, we cite the judgement.
Name what's missing.
Where a register has no data, the report says so, explicitly, rather than letting silence read as absence of risk.
Log every correction.
When a customer flags an issue we've made, the correction goes on a public log with a date and a description of what changed. The log is part of the methodology.