What's new in Firmcheck | Firmcheck Help Center

Week ending 15 November 2024

We have a new “Pull latest” button for Companies House UK companies. Clicking this button will pull the latest Company name, Company type, Registered address from UKCH and update in Firmcheck.
A new documents tab is on the new profile view where staff can add client documents.
Client manager has been added to the bulk import files so can be included when bulk importing clients.
On the People tab, the Verifications column now reflects the verification status for that person that’s been done in the AML workflow.
Added some AML details and actions to the client profile so you can jump back into AML from here.
Additional due diligence has been added to individuals. This section is optional.

Can now add new related parties to organisations on the new profile view
A new notes tab is on the new profile view where staff can add client notes
Client profile is enabled for clients, simply click on the row to go to the profile from where you can edit client details, view and edit related parties, notes.
Fixed a bug where x icon was showing after a manual ID document was added.
Fixed a bug where weird scrolling was happening on clients tabs
Fixed a bug where sole trader name was being saved as every sole traders name.

Can now remove related parties from organisations on the new profile view
Can now add existing related parties from organisations on the new profile view
New staff role added: Client managers
- When you add or edit a staff member, you can now pick if they are a client manager.
- You can then assign clients to a manager, and then filter clients by managers.
- This is one of the additions to support our migration project, but it is also valuable for larger firms as they have multiple staff involved in one client’s AML work, and assigning managers will help here.
We’ve added in the ‘additional notes’ field for the authentication of manually added documents.

A bug where the next review date for next Firm-wide risk assessment was showing as the completed date instead of +1 year has been fixed.
A bug where an email notification was being sent to yourself if you picked yourself as a reviewer has been fixed.
When there is a positive match for PEP, Sanctions, and Adverse media, you can now manage the result either marking them as a false positive, or confirming they match as PEP, Sanctions and/or Adverse media. If there is a true result, you can also decide if based on those results you are approving or not approving the person with space to add notes and additional documents.
The Related parties tab has been added to the new client profile (visible for non-clients at the moment), can view related parties and edit their roles.

Client risk assessment template builder is live! Create client risk assessment templates completely with your own questions to meet your own firm’s policies. Templates can be assigned to different client types so that they automatically are assigned the correct template when starting a new AML for that client.
We’ve added alerts to show that an Advanced ID check has been sent, when it’s close to expiring, and when it’s expired.
We’ve added an alert when you try to run an essential ID check on a non-UK resident, prompting you to switch to PEP check instead.
If an Advanced ID check is filled in by the client with a non-UK address, only the PEP check will be run instead of the Essential ID checks after the client submits.