Ennetbürgen, Switzerland / London
June 15, 2006

WORLD-CHECK INCORPORATES PASSPORT VERIFICATION SOLUTION BY TAMONA AG

We are very pleased to announce the start of a strategic partnership with World-Check, the industry pioneer and global leader in the provision of structured risk related intelligence.

The Agreement will see Passport-Checker included in the World-Check System as an integral module under the name Passport-Check and therefore available to more than 8000 users at 1600 banks and 200 government agencies worldwide which are presently using the World-Check System.

“World-Check is delighted to have reached an exclusive agreement with Tamona to provide this service as part of our industry standard KYC and PEP service.” Said David Leppan, CEO and Founder of World-Check. “Tamona have developed a superb application and Passport-Check, like World-Check, will become another industry standard.”

“The agreement with World-Check is very valuable as the integration of Name-Checking and ID-Document Checking into one process provides customers with an unique solution to match the stringent international KYC due diligence obligations” says Willem Kerkmeer, CEO of Tamona AG. “Lining up with the leading provider of KYC and PEP intelligence is a significant step in our mission to provide the entire international financial community with straight, simple and reliable solutions to verify the integrity of ID-Documents”.


Ideally, access to the Passport-Check is to be extended to Front-Office level, to be used as a first important filter or early warning system. To this effect, Passport-Checker, the Stand Alone solution can also be integrated in the Banks Intranet. Passport-Checker can be ordered separately at Tamona AG in Switzerland or requested at the World-Check Sales Organization.

For more information on World-Check, please visit http://www.world-check.com or About World-Check