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Grid risk event codes

Grid risk event codes are the primary means by which Grid records are structured.

They consist of over 50 three-letter trigraphs that each correspond to a specific general category of risk. Every record in Grid, regardless of source, contains a risk event code and risk stage code.

Grid risk event codes include the following:

As of 29 Jan 2024

ABU

Abuse

Offenses relating to marital relationships, children, vulnerable elderly or disabled people; includes domestic abuse, elder abuse, child abuse, child neglect, spousal abuse, domestic violence, and child endangerment.

ARS

Arson

Reckless or intentional damage and malicious burning of property, buildings, and vehicles.

AST

Assault, Battery

Reckless or intentional physical injury to another; includes assault, battery, stalking, menacing, aggravated harassment, wanton endangerment, and vehicular assault.

BKY

Bankruptcy

Current or future bankruptcy, receivership, or court-ordered administration. Captured from selected government lists only.

BLK

Black List

Firm-specific black list. Leveraged with legacy Blacklist, no longer available, or iList functionality only. Data not populated for screening by Grid team except with Sanctioned Country iLists.

BRB

Bribery

Conferring a benefit on a public servant to influence their action/judgment; includes kickbacks, graft, corruption, political corruption, payoffs, corrupt payments, abuse of power, and abuse of office.

BUR

Burglary

Enter or remain unlawfully in a building or premise with intent to commit a crime; includes burglary, breaking and entering, and home invasion.

BUS

Business Crimes

Broad range of crimes that relate to unlawful acts or business practices; includes antitrust, bankruptcy associated with wrongdoing, and price fixing.

CFT

Counterfeiting

Falsely creating/offering an item of value or document with intent to deceive; includes counterfeiting, forgery, check fraud, fake currency, and uttering forgery.

CON

Conspiracy

Agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime. This includes reports when no specific crime is named, in effect, only “conspiracy”.

CPR

Copyright Infringement

Includes copyright infringement, intellectual property violations, electronic piracy, music piracy, trademark violations, and patent violations.

CYB

Cybercrime

Broad range of crimes that relate to use of computers to commit crimes, computer-related crimes, cybercurrency- related crimes, cybercrime, hacking, cyberstalking, phishing, and internet scams.

DEN

Denied Entity

Denied Parties lists published by State Dept., Commerce Dept., US GAO, and relating to parties that are denied/debarred from participating in selected activities such as trading and participating in government contracts.

DPP

Data Privacy and Protection

Data privacy violations that include breaches of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored, or processed, or other improper handling of personally identifying information.

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DPS

Drug Possession

Possession or use of narcotics; includes possession of drugs or drug paraphernalia.

DTF

Drug Trafficking

Relates to sale or distribution of narcotics; includes trafficking or distribution of illegal drugs.

ENV

Environmental Crimes

Includes poaching, illegal logging, animal cruelty, negligent pollution, illegal dumping, and illegal deforestation.

FAR

Foreign Agent Registration Act

Assembled exclusively from the US Department of Justice list of disclosures of persons acting as agents of foreign principals in a political or quasi-political capacity relating to the US Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA.

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FOF

Former OFAC

Entities removed from the US Treasury Department's OFAC SDN list.

FOS

Former Sanctions

Entities removed from international sanctions lists.

FOR

Forfeiture

Relating to the confiscation of assets or property by authorities in relation to criminal activity.

FRD

Fraud

False Acts or statements with intent to obtain or deprive money, goods or services by deception; includes fraud, scams, swindles, Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, wire fraud, charity scams, and bait and switch schemes.

FUG

Fugitive

Offenses relating to official custody, imprisonment, arrest, or order of a court; includes fugitives, escapees, prison breakout, bail jumping, and harboring a fugitive.

GAM

Gambling

Offenses relating to either illegally promoting gambling or possessing illegal gambling devices; includes illegal gambling, illegal lotteries, illegal betting, illegal gaming, illegal poker, and gambling dens.

HTE

Hate Groups

Hate Crimes

Offenses in which a company, group, or individual targets or discriminates against others based on their immutable characteristics; includes lists of designated hate groups.

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HUM

Human Rights

Broad range of crimes relating to crimes in country; includes human rights violations, genocide, war crimes, hate crimes, Geneva Convention violations, unlawful imprisonment, extrajudicial executions, torture, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, political persecution, and political prisoners.

IGN

Weapons Possession

Offenses relating to weapons; includes illegal possession or sale of guns, weapons, or explosives.

IMP

Identity Theft

Offenses relating to using/assuming another's identity for illegal benefits; includes identity theft, impersonation, and identity fraud.

IPR

Prostitution

Offering or promoting the exchange of sexual acts for a fee; includes illegal prostitution, and the sex trade.

IRC

Iran Connect

Profiles of individuals and organizations with Iranian business ties specifically germane to compliance requirements of global Iran sanctions- plus compliance requirements such as US Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (CISADA).

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KID

Kidnapping

Abduct or restrain another person; includes kidnapping, abduction, held against will, forcible detentions, and false imprisonment.

LMD

Legal Marijuana Dispensaries

Assembled from state lists of legalized marijuana dispensaries and associated entities in the United States. 

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LNS

Loan Sharking

Offenses relating to charging an illegally high rate of interest on a debt; includes loan sharking, usury, predatory lending, abuse prepayment schemes, fraudulent lending, discriminatory lending, and unscrupulous lending.

MIS

Misconduct

Broad range of minor crimes and misdeeds that do not fit into other categories and are tagged in media as "misconduct."

MLA

Money Laundering

Offenses relating to concealing/disguising the source of proceeds of crime; includes money laundering, illicit finance schemes, fund layering, washing criminal profits, cash smuggling, and structured currency transactions.

MOR

Mortgage Wrongdoing

Mortgage fraud, mortgage scams.

MSB

Money Services Business

Assembled exclusively from the US Treasury’s FinCEN and Canada’s FINTRAC and AMF (Autorité des Marches Financiers) lists of registered Money Services Businesses. As well as the UK Financial Conduct Authority list of PSD Agents.

MUR

Murder

An offense relating to intentional, reckless or negligent death or killing of another human being. This includes murder and manslaughter whether committed, planned, or attempted.

NSC

Nonspecific Crimes

Used to capture references in media to articles that refer to wrongdoing but do not include details to identify the specific type of wrongdoing.

OBS

Obscenity

Offenses relating to possessing or creating indecent materials; obscenity related, child pornography.

ORG

Organized Crime

Offenses relating to organized criminal groups/gangs; includes organized crime, criminal association, racketeering, RICO, and Anti-Social Forces.

PEP

Politically Exposed Persons

Grid's proprietary PEP Connect database.

PRJ

Perjury

False statements or documents made under oath with intention to deceive; includes perjury, obstruction of justice, false filings, false statements, criminal contempt, contempt of court, and false reporting.

PSP

Possession of Stolen Property

Crimes relating to knowingly possessing/transferring of stolen property; includes possessing stolen property, possessing stolen goods, receiving stolen property.

REG

Regulatory Action

Disciplinary actions by regulatory agencies involving sanctions, suspensions and fines.

RES

Real Estate Actions

Includes real estate fraud, wrongdoing by or disciplinary actions against individuals or entities involved in real estate business.

ROB

Robbery

Theft by force or threat of force; includes robbery, stealing by threat/use of force, armed robbery, bank robbery, carjacking.

SEC

Security Violations

Offenses relating to unlawful/abusive sales of stocks, securities; includes insider trading, securities fraud, churning, boiler rooms, unregistered trading, front-running, stock backdating, pump and dump schemes, cooked books, fiduciary breaches, stock laddering.

SEX

Sex Offenses

Offenses relating to sexual conduct against another through force or lack of consent; includes sex offenses, rape, sodomy, sexual abuse, pedophilia, necrophilia, sexual misconduct, and molestation.

SMG

Smuggling

Reserved for capture of media items regarding smuggling of anything except drugs, money, guns, or people; cigarette smuggling, illegal cross-border trade, contraband trading, exotic species trading, illegal alcohol trade, stolen art trafficking, fraudulent import invoicing.

SNX

Sanctions Connect

Profiles of individuals and organizations connected to or associated with sanctioned entities. Premium Content is available through separate purchase.

SPY

Spying

Crimes relating to illegally aiding another country or entity; includes treason, espionage, spying.

TAX

Tax-Related

Offenses related to evasion or nonpayment of taxes; includes tax violations and tax crimes.

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TER

Terrorism

Offenses relating to terrorist groups/individuals.

TFT

Theft

Broad range of offenses related to theft of goods or services; includes theft, larceny, misappropriation, embezzlement, extortion, grand theft, grand larceny, shoplifting.

TRF

Human Trafficking

Offenses relating to sales of other human beings for servitude or sales of human body parts, human trafficking, organ trafficking, baby selling, human slavery, forced labor, child labor, immigration trafficking, harboring illegal aliens.

VCY

Virtual Currency

Assembled from publicly available lists of virtual currency-related businesses such as Bitcoin ATMs and exchanges.

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WLT

Watch List

A government issued list of named individuals and organizations engaged in activities related to terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and other threats to national security or foreign policy which are the subject of restrictive measures, including but not limited to asset freeze, travel ban, and arms embargoes.

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