Descartes Visual Compliance
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Descartes Visual Compliance is a denied-party and restricted-party screening product that checks customers, vendors, and partners against denied-party and sanctions lists (including OFAC, BIS, and DDTC lists) at onboarding and at the transaction level, as part of export/trade compliance programs.
- Headquarters
- Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Founded
- 1981
- Website
- www.visualcompliance.com/compliance-solutions/denied-party-screening/
Notable facts
- Per Wikipedia, the underlying company was founded in 1981 by Rajiv Manucha and grew into a denied/restricted-party screening and export-licensing software business based in Toronto, Ontario and Buffalo, New York
- Acquired by Descartes Systems Group in February 2019 for approximately CAD $330 million (~US $250 million), per Descartes' own acquisition announcement
- Descartes states Visual Compliance serves over 2,000 customers with roughly 67,500 subscribers across 100+ countries; Descartes Systems Group's corporate headquarters is in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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