Source Added:

Country-Check is proud to announce the release of Free Trade Zone dimension. FATF released a report that tackles Money Laundering vulnerabilities of Free Trade Zones. Country-Check added the list as additional source in the system joining Economic Factor in generating jurisdictional risk index

Data extracted from and for further information, please visit: http://www.fatf-gafi.org/dataoecd/45/47/44888058.pdf

Source Updates:

Country-Check updates raw score values of Aon - Terrorism Risk Map - Terrorism Threat Conditions. The latest data released by Aon is 2010. Index has 5 level of threat from Low to Severe covering 200+ countries.

For further information, kindly visit the following link: http://www.aon.com/risk-services/terrorism.jsp

Data Extracted from - http://www.aon.com/risk-services/terrorism-risk-map/interactive-risk-map/2010_Terrorist_Threat_Map/index.html

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Country-Check is proud to announce the addition of 3 new sources under Sanctions dimension. A total of 5 sources covering Country-Check dimension Sanctions under Financial Factor with a brief description below:

UN Sanctions – Listed several countries from UN Security Council Sanctions Committees to ensure international peace and security. The range of sanctions targeted measures from arms embargoes, travel bans, financial or diplomatic restrictions.

For further information and Data extracted from, please visit: http://www.un.org/sc/committees/index.shtml

EU Sanctions – the list in the framework of Common Foreign and Security Policy that imposed restrictive measures from arms embargoes, other specific or general trade restrictions, financial restrictions, restrictions on admission and other measures as appropriate.

Data extracted from: http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/cfsp/sanctions/docs/measures_en.pdf

For further information, please visit: http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/cfsp/sanctions/index_en.htm

HM Treasury Sanctions – Financial Services – measures sanctions via international financial sanctions in effect in the UK.

Data extracted from: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/fin_sanctions_currentindex.htm

For further information, please visit: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/fin_sanctions_index.htm

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Source Added:

S-CTG59 to S-CTG70 - EU Counterfeit Seizure 2009 publication

Country-Check added new sources under Counterfeiting dimension. The 2009 report preview Annex 4 of the publication - Breakdown of number of articles detained expressed as % by provenance and by category

For further information, kindly visit the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/customs/customs_controls/counterfeit_piracy/statistics/index_en.htm

Extracted from - http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/customs/customs_controls/counterfeit_piracy/statistics/statistics_2009.pdf

Source Updates:

1. Country-Check updates raw score values of Carleton - Country Indicators For Foreign Policy (CIFP) - Corruption Index. The latest data released by CIFP is 2006.

For further information and data wxtracted from - http://www.carleton.ca/cgi-bin/cifp/data.pl

Source Removed:

S-CTG5 to S-CTG58 - EU Counterfeit Seizure

With the sources added S-CTG59 to S-CTG70, the raw score data S-CTG5 to 58 were removed as the values are outdated.

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We are glad to inform you the feature update in Country-Check system. This update will show your current weight set loaded in Rank Risk and Modify Weights section.  You will notice that the indication of “Active Weight Set: <name of weight set>” will be highly noticeable once loaded the page.

We also updated the character space limit in saving custom weight sets. This will now be 30 alphanumeric including underscore.

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Country-Check is proud to announce the release of Known Tax Haven dimension. A total of 3 brand new sources covering Country-Check new dimension Known Tax Haven under Financial Factor with a brief description below:

TJN Financial Secrecy Index 2009 identified 60 jurisdictions based on methodological principles in creating Key Financial Secrecy Indicators (KFSI)

Data extracted from: http://www.financialsecrecyindex.com/2009results.html

For further information, please visit: http://www.secrecyjurisdictions.com/kfsi/methodkfsi

TJN Tax Haven Lists derived from 11 regulatory agencies listing the jurisdictions as known tax haven

Extracted from and for further information, kindly visit the following link: http://www.secrecyjurisdictions.com/PDF/SJ_Mapping.pdf

OECD List of Uncooperative Tax haven labeled jurisdictions as implemented agreed tax standard, committed but not yet implemented agreed tax standard and have not committed to the internationally agreed tax standard

Data extracted from: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/50/0/43606256.pdf

For further information, please visit: http://www.oecd.org/document/57/0,3343,en_2649_33745_30578809_1_1_1_1,00.html

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Country-Check is proud to announce the release of Offshore Financial Center dimension. IMF released Offshore Financial Centers (OFCs)" IMF Staff Assesments. The organization provided detailed assessments of country and jurisdictions to help strengthen financial supervision of OFCs

Data extracted from: http://www.imf.org/external/np/ofca/ofca.asp

For further information, please visit: http://www.imf.org/external/np/ofca/ofca.asp

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Country-Check updated the FATF - Jurisdictions with strategic AML/CFT deficiencies report to our database. Country-Check users are now provided access to the latest 2 publication of FATF as part of the organization on-going efforts identifying and working with countries to protect the international financial system. The updated source can be found under AML Controls dimension via S-AML68 Source.

Extracted from:

http://www.fatf-gafi.org/dataoecd/17/5/45540828.pdf

http://www.fatf-gafi.org/dataoecd/17/4/45540819.pdf

For further information, kindly visit the following link:http://www.fatf-gafi.org/pages/0,3417,en_32250379_32235720_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

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Vision of Humanity released its latest publication – Global Peace Index for 2010. The index results shows how are countries fare with global peace interms of ongoing domestic and international conflict, safety and security in society and militrasation in 149 countries.

This update covers Global Peace Index source under Absence of Violence dimension

Extracted from –

http://smartercapitalholdings01.businesscatalyst.com/CampaignProcess.aspx?A=Link&VID=5508196&KID=89925&LID=312072&O=http%3a%2f%2fwww.visionofhumanity.org%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2fPDF%2f2010%2f2010%2520GPI%2520Results%2520Report.pdf

For further information, kindly visit the following link:

http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi-data/#/2010/scor

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The Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Dataset released its latest data for 2008. Covers 195 countries standard based quantitative information on different aspect on government human rights practices. This includes multiple Country-Check sources naming from Electoral Self-Determination, Freedom Of Religion, Physical Integrity Rights Index and Empowerment Rights Index under Political Factor.

Extracted from and for further information, kindly visit the following link:

http://ciri.binghamton.edu/index.asp

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US Department of State released its latest publication – Trafficking in Persons Report 2010. The index outlines the challenge in Human Trafficking around the world. Tier placement from 1, 2, 2 Watch List and 3 are assessed for 177 countries.

This update covers US Department Of State - Trafficking in Persons Report source under Human Trafficking dimension.

Extracted from –http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2010/142755.htm

For further information, kindly visit the following link: http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi-data/#/2010/scor

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The United States Department of the Treasury - Office of Foreign Asset Control recently updated their Sanction List. They have added 'Somalia' in the list of Sanctions.

Country-Check updated its current source - F-SC2 - OFAC Country Sanctions Program that is related on this update.

Extracted from – http://www.treasury.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/programs/index.shtml

For further information, kindly visit the following link: http://www.treasury.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/programs/somalia/somalia.shtml