KYC News owns the following databases:

Group 1: Story Library, Offshore General, Bermuda Supreme Court and the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands; Group 2: OffshoreAlert, InsideBermuda, KYC Alert; and Group 3: Documents.

All Group 1 databases can be accessed using 'credits' which you can buy 24/7 from our Shopping Cart. You can search the Story Library and Offshore General databases for free but one credit is deducted from your account each time you open up an entry that matches your search criteria. Two credits are deducted each time you search Bermuda Supreme Court and the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands and an additional one credit is deducted for each entry that you open.

Credits cost $10 each with discounts of up to 61 per cent available for bulk purchases via a product called KYC Remote Control. You can purchase credits 24 hours-a-day using our Shopping Cart. The entire process is automated and, once your payment has been processed, you will be emailed your username and password and can immediately start using your credits. The entire process takes a matter of minutes. You can top up your credits at any time.

Once you have purchased credits, you do not need to use them in one visit. You can return to our site again and again and use them at your leisure. They do not expire over time but only when you have finished using them. Credits are automatically deducted from your account at you use them. You can monitor how many credits you have at any time from a box that is located in the top right-hand corner of our web-site.

All Group 2 databases can be accessed by subscribing annually to OffshoreAlert or InsideBermuda newsletters or monthly to KYC Alert newsletter. Everyone can search these databases for free but only subscribers can open up matches.

Our Group 3 database contains various documents which you can purchase using our Shopping Cart. You can search this database for free but you must pay to open up each document.

Descriptions of our databases are as follows:

Story library, Documents, Bermuda Court, Cayman Court, Offshore General, OffshoreAlert, InsideBermuda, and KYC Alert.

Documents

KYC News regularly obtains copies of civil lawsuits, criminal indictments, and other documents regarding financial crime and make them available from our site, some for free but most for a charge. You can order and pay for these documents using our 'Shopping Cart'. Once payment has been approved, you are led to a link where you can immediately download your document or, in some rare cases, you are emailed the document within 48 hours of purchase.

We suggest that you buy credits on an as-needed basis for $10 each or buy them in bulk at a discount and use them over a long-period of time on different projects until they run out. Once your account has been set up, you can top up your credits at any time from our 'Shopping Cart'.

We suggest a combination of a subscription to KYC Alert and bulk purchases of credits.

KYC Alert is a newsletter that will deliver the latest news on financial crime to your email box every week for just $15 per month. Each edition also contains links to documents such as civil lawsuits, criminal indictments, creditors' reports on failed companies, etc., and links to third-party web-sites where you can read breaking news about financial crime. Subscribers also have access to all current and back issues via a round-the-clock search facility on our web-site.

As for credits, we have a sliding scale of discounts depending on volume. The cheapest rate if 50 credits for $195, a product we call KYC Remote Control. You can return to our site again and again to use these credits. They do not expire over time but only when you have used them.

For the serious researcher who works for a large bank, private investigative agency or other company, we suggest contacting us about having unrestricted access to all of our newsletters, including KYC Alert, OffshoreAlert and InsideBermuda, our News Wires and databases. We will come up with a price and a product to suit your needs.

When the company was formed in November, 1996, our focus was offshore financial centers, hence the original name of the company: Offshore Business News & Research Inc.

Our niche was the Bermuda-Caribbean region, including Antigua, the Bahamas, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Nevis and the Turks & Caicos Islands.

However, we now publish information about financial crime wherever it is committed and, to reflect this, we changed the name of the company to KYC News Inc. on March 26, 2003. KYC literally stands for 'Know Your Customer' and has become a synonym for Due Diligence.

Major financial centers such as Wall Street and London, which are rife with criminal activity, are now just as much a target for news as offshore jurisdictions.

is a monthly newsletter specializing in providing investigative news about offshore banking, finance and insurance, with a focus exposing white-collar crime while it is in progress.

Each edition is produced as a 'pdf' file and stored on our web-site. Subscribers have a 'Username' and 'Password' which allows them to have round-the-clock access to the current edition and all back editions since OffshoreAlert was launched in February, 1997.

Frequently quoted by international media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Business Week, USA Today, CBS News' 48 Hours and BBC Radio, OffshoreAlert is an important source of accurate information for compliance officers, businessmen and investors seeking the truth behind the hype of corporate press releases and promotional brochures.

OffshoreAlert is also widely read by regulators and law enforcement agencies and was referenced three times in the 2001 U.S. Senate Report on how correspondent banking relationships between U.S. and offshore banks are used to launder the proceeds of crime.

Although the focus of the newsletter is 'offshore', the fact is that the perpetrators and victims of most criminal activity conducted through offshore structures are domiciled in the world's major countries, such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.

As part of their subscription, annual subscribers also receive 25 credits to search and open information contained in our various due diligence databases, including our Story Library, Bermuda Supreme Court and the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Subscribers also receive a complimentary subscription to KYC Alert, our weekly email news service which delivers news about financial crime, plus links to documents such as lawsuits and criminal indictments, to you by email.

Click Here to view a Free Issue ('pdf' file).

If you want to test OffshoreAlert before deciding whether to take out an annual subscription, you can take out a two-month Trial Subscription, which will entitle you to two editions of the newsletter but no access to back editions.

is a monthly newsletter focusing on Bermuda's international business sector, with an emphasis on insurance and reinsurance.

It is produced as a 'pdf' file and stored on our web-site. Subscribers have a 'Username' and 'Password' which allows them to have round-the-clock access to the current edition and all back editions since OffshoreAlert was launched in February, 1997.

InsideBermuda has a track record of obtaining information about Bermuda's international business sector and its participants before other news organizations, including local newspapers. Our focus is on the island's insurers and reinsurers and financial institutions.

In November, 1997, InsideBermuda exposed the IPO prospectus of Goldman Sachs-controlled Stirling Cooke Brown Holdings the same month that it was taken public at $22 per share. Three years later, its share price had fallen to just 56 cents.

Apart from news articles about Bermuda's international business sector and its participant, each edition contains a 'Letter from Bermuda' focusing on Bermuda's political climate and details of all significant business-related lawsuits filed over the previous 30 days at Bermuda Supreme Court.

Additionally, subscribers also receive 15 credits to search and open information contained in our various databases, including our Story Library and Bermuda Supreme Court.

is a newsletter covering financial crime that is published four times each month. It contains breaking news articles and links to documents stored on our server such as criminal indictments and civil lawsuits.

The newsletter is produced as an 'htm' file. Each edition is emailed to subscribers, who also have a username and password to access the current edition and all back editions from our web-site.

A subscription to KYC Alert costs $15 per month per email address. Annual subscribers receive it free of charge as part of their subscription.

View past issues of KYC Alert by clicking on the links below:

KYC Remote Control is the name we have given to a product which offers you 50 credits for $195 - the cheapest discount we have available, other than for negotiated group rates.

You can use these credits on the following databases: Story Library, Offshore General, Bermuda Supreme Court and Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

KYC Remote Control credits do not expire over time, only when you have used them. You can return to the site time and again until they are all gone.

KYC Remote Control subscribers will also receive a monthly email notifying them of all new articles that have been published in OffshoreAlert.