LONDON, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- World-Check, a leading provider of intelligence to the financial community identifying known heightened-risk customers, announced today that Safe Banking Systems ('SBS'), of Melville, New York, USA, a software firm specializing in automated anti-money laundering and compliance solutions to the financial community, is the first company to achieve its highest partner ranking of "Integrated Solution Provider."SBS has fully integrated and enhanced its name filtering software to seamlessly support customer screening against the World-Check database. The SBS offering, which SBS refers to as the SBS Total World-Check Solution, streamlines the entire World-Check screening process, from automatically downloading updates of the World-Check database, to automated data configuration and enhanced match reviews. The SBS solution can support both batch screening and real-time wire transaction monitoring."Thanks to the expert work and dedication of the SBS team, financial institutions have access to a turn-key World-Check filtering solution that is fully automated from beginning to end and can be installed in just a matter of days," said David Leppan, Chief Executive Officer of World-Check. "The SBS application is a well-recognized and proven application, and we recommend the SBS Total World-Check Solution with full confidence of a successful and quick implementation followed by very tangible results.""The SBS team is proud to achieve this status from the market leader in intelligence gathering on high-risk entities," said Mark Schiffer, C.F.O and Vice President of Strategic Business Development of SBS. "SBS will continue to develop software products to further enhance the use of the World-Check database. We anticipate many joint projects in 2004 and beyond."About World-CheckWorld-Check tracks the identities of known heightened-risk financial customers, including money launderers, fraudsters, terrorists, Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), organized criminals, narcotics traffickers, arms dealers and over a dozen other high-risk categories from over 230 countries. The World-Check database is updated twice-daily and is derived from over 100,000 public sources. Over 450 financial institutions and government agencies use World-Check. World-Check offers both a downloadable database for automated filtering of an unlimited number of names, as well as a simple online service for quick customer screening. For more information, visit http://www.world-check.com/. About Safe Banking SystemsHeadquartered in Melville, New York, Safe Banking Systems offers a range of automated compliance and AML solutions to the financial community. These include anti money laundering software for correspondent banking (SAFE Report), watch list filtering and Straight-Thru-Processing (middleware and message repair). Also offered is SWIFT-related solutions and consultancy. For more information, visit http://www.safe-banking.com/. Web site: ARRAY(0x911018)