Know Your Vessel (KYV)™

“Windward’s platform was the natural choice when we were looking to increase efficiency across our compliance and sanctions departments. As maritime trade becomes increasingly complex to navigate, our partnership with Windward enables us to meet regulatory expectations and enhances our efforts to improve business operations, reduce risk, and improve compliance across maritime financial trade.”

“Windward is an essential partner in our fight against drug smuggling and always provides the right support when needed.”

“Financial institutions are some of the most heavily regulated in the world. In addition to our ongoing efforts against AML, new sanctions advisories by OFAC and OFSI have made an already complex ecosystem even more difficult to navigate. To meet regulatory expectations, we are enhancing our efforts to improve business operations, reduce risk, and improve compliance across maritime financial trade using Windward’s AI solution.”

“Working with Windward is a true partnership – they go above and beyond to give us assurance to enable us to trade with confidence, both from a strategic and operational perspective. Windward listens to and answers our key needs, enabling us to optimize our risk management, resources and create effective business practices.”

“Windward is a valuable source of intelligence for the Panel’s investigations concerning maritime sanctions and North Korea.”

“Windward enabled us to strengthen our screening environment with in-depth behavioral risk analysis and the tool has enhanced several investigations at our bank.”

“Supporting our multiple clients, with varied roles and responsibilities, has only been possible because of the unwavering support by Windward. Our efforts to provide actionable insights in the ever-changing scenario is possible only because of the “on time, every time” commitment of Windward.”

“Windward is a critical and trusted partner for fleet managers and marine insurance underwriters.”

“We have partnered with Windward for a number of years, collaborating closely to develop and expand [the business with] their advanced technology, in order to build a robust and dynamic international sanctions risk approach and implement specific compliance controls for the product phases (i.e., underwriting, ongoing monitoring and claims/ settlements management).”

“We have been working with Windward for around 18 months and have had the opportunity to get a good understanding of what their domain expertise and data could deliver in different areas of the group. Issues such as the OFAC advisories published in 2019 are gamechangers for our compliance requirements, and services that can help us to use our resources smartly are very valuable.”