Investigation & Alerts
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Are you sure your deal is still the deal you checked?
A check is a photograph. Investigation & Alerts is the whole film.
A due diligence report tells you what was true on the day it was written. Deals keep moving after that. The seller changes the bank account, a new intermediary appears, the vessel is replaced, a revised SPA arrives with one clause changed, a director resigns. Each change can turn a safe deal into a dangerous one, and most arrive by email, late, when everyone is in a hurry to close.
With Investigation & Alerts, DDNC keeps one case open for your deal from the first document to the last payment. Everything you receive goes into the case. We check each new element against everything already known, and we tell you when something changes, for better or for worse, before you act on it.
What it looks like in practice
A real pattern, with the names changed.
Week one: the seller, the company and its bank account are verified. Week three: the final invoice arrives with a different IBAN, "for operational reasons". A one-off check would not see it, because nobody would think to send it in. In an open case, the new invoice is compared with the verified record, the change is flagged, a DDNC analyst confirms that the new account belongs to another company, and you receive an alert before the transfer, with the evidence and what to ask the seller.
Are you sure the company you signed with is still the same company?
Corporate changes are monitored and analysed, not just recorded.
Companies change during a deal, sometimes by chance and sometimes on purpose. While the case is open, DDNC watches the companies involved for any change to the company itself, its shareholders and owners, its directors and the people authorised to sign for it.
Each change generates an alert, and each alert is analysed by DDNC: what changed, when, who is behind it, whether the new people and owners are linked to known risks, and whether the documents already signed are still valid. A director who signed your SPA and resigned the following week, a new shareholder who appears just before payment or a power of attorney that has been revoked are the changes that matter most.
Covers: Changes to the company: name, status, address, registration · Changes of shareholders and owners · Changes of directors · Changes of authorised signatories and powers of attorney
Who it is for
High-value deals that take weeks or months to close.
Buyers, sellers, financiers and mandates who have real money exposed over time: large cargoes, long-term supply contracts, deals with several intermediaries or several jurisdictions. It is our highest level of service and is opened after a conversation with DDNC, so the scope, the parties and the alerts fit the deal.
A Permanent Investigation
One active case. A continuously updated risk picture.
Investigation & Alerts begins with a comprehensive baseline investigation and remains open for as long as the client maintains the service. The case evolves as documents, entities, representatives, banking instructions, procedures, logistics and verification outcomes are added or changed.
Total Cross-Check
Every new element is tested against the complete case history.
New information is compared with the established record, the DDNC checklist and all previous findings. The service incorporates corporate and transaction intelligence, premium-source verification, document forensic analysis, version and chronology review, issuer confirmation where available, and specialist operational checks where the case requires them.
Human-Reviewed Alerts
Positive and negative change, assessed before it reaches the client.
A material confirmation, contradiction, unresolved verification or increase or reduction in risk can generate an alert. Each material alert is reviewed by DDNC and tied to the evidence, its effect on the case and the action required.
Covers: Counterparty Alert · Corporate Change Alert · Banking Alert · Document Alert · Vessel & Logistics Alert · Procedure Alert · Compliance Alert · Verification Alert