Due to international money laundering regulations, you are not permitted to buy or sell unless you have taken the details of two forms of identification from each person involved in the sale or purchase. One must be confirmation of identification, and one confirmation of address.
Manual Recording
To comply with regulations, you must obtain specific items of identification to ensure that your client is not using your services to launder money. Once you've obtained and photocopied or stored copies of identification, use this section to record this.
Landmark Credit Checking
If you have an agreement in place, Landmark allows you to send your contacts information electronically from Standout and receive a report, usually within 5 minutes. Standout will take the information you have provided and try to populate fields that will be used when credit checking.
Should your contact be two people (Mr & Mrs etc), Standout will try to populate the two contacts for placing an order. You should check all the fields prior to pressing the "Place order" button.
Fields to credit check a contact:
Title - this must be their title - Mr / Mrs / Miss etc
First Name - their first name
Surname - their surname
House Number - taken from the first line of their address and the first word or letter(s)
House Name - you may have to enter this
Road Name - the name of the road in the address
Town - the town where the address is located
County - the county where the address is located
National Insurance Number - an optional entry if you have their NI Number
Driving Licence Number - an optional entry if you have their Driving Licence Number (the first 16 digits)
PLEASE NOTE - failure to provide the correct information may result in a request failing, depending on your account terms, additional charges may occur from Landmark if subsequent orders are placed. Therefore, we cannot stress the importance of entering this information correctly.
Reports
Once a search has been completed, you will see on screen the report information, for a PDF version of the Landmark report, click on the Generate button. If you use Dropbox as your storage platform within Standout, your PDF report will be stored in Files tab. If you do not have Dropbox, you will be able to Generate and then download the PDF(s) next to the Generate button.
