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Enhanced due diligence is a deeper background review that banks, lenders, and investors run on higher-risk customers and counterparties. At Southern Recon Agency, we see enhanced due diligence from the deal side. A buyer, lender, or partner needs to know who stands behind a company and where the money came from, and the standard paperwork ...

Enhanced due diligence (EDD) in banking is the extra customer information and closer monitoring a bank applies to customers it rates as higher risk. US regulations spell out EDD for a few account types, including certain foreign correspondent accounts and private banking accounts tied to senior foreign political figures. Every other case follows the bank's ...

Due diligence in business is the investigation a buyer, investor, or partner runs to verify a company's finances, legal standing, ownership, and people. The work happens ahead of signing, while walking away still costs little. In the cases my team handles in Orlando, the hardest questions are about the people and ownership behind the numbers. ...

A vendor due diligence checklist lists the legal, financial, ownership, security, and insurance checks a business completes on a supplier ahead of a contract. Our investigators usually see these vendor files after someone accepted a vendor's answers and never matched them to a record. The checklist below sorts every item by where you can confirm ...

Due diligence on a business purchase is scheduled for 60 days after a signed letter of intent, and slow seller documents push it past that. The 60-day figure covers the financial and legal review. At Southern Recon Agency, our investigators work a separate piece of that window, confirming who the people across the table are ...

A financial due diligence checklist lists the records a buyer reviews in a business purchase: earnings, cash flow, debt, taxes, and working capital. Our investigators get called when those records looked fine and the deal still went wrong. We cover the full document checklist below, along with the step that list leaves out, which is ...

Due diligence for mergers and acquisitions is the buyer's pre-closing investigation of a target company's finances, taxes, contracts, operations, and the people who own it. Accountants test the numbers and attorneys test the contracts. In my work at Southern Recon Agency, the deals that go wrong usually passed both reviews and still missed a lawsuit, ...

An O.MG Cable is a USB cable with a hidden Wi-Fi implant that lets another person type commands into the device it is plugged into. I lead the counter-surveillance practice at Southern Recon Agency, and a charging cable is the object clients rarely think to question. Below is how to recognize the risk and what ...

The ePDG service on an Android phone is built-in system software that sets up the encrypted tunnel Wi-Fi Calling uses to reach the carrier. I usually hear about this entry from people who were scrolling their app list because something already felt off. In the phones my team examines, a name in that list settles ...

AI privacy concerns are the risks that artificial intelligence systems collect, infer, expose, or misuse personal information without a person's knowledge or consent. We look at that definition from an investigator's side. A chatbot company holding your chats is one risk. A stranger, an ex-partner, or a scammer pointing AI at details about you that ...

AI fraud prevention for financial institutions is the use of machine learning to score transactions, logins, and identity documents for fraud as they happen. We work the cases that follow those scores. The same phrase also covers a second problem, which is fraud that criminals build with AI, and this guide addresses both for banks ...

The AI cybersecurity trends of 2026 are deepfake impersonation fraud, AI-built software exploits, autonomous attack agents, shadow AI, and delayed regulation. Analysts forecast all five in late 2025. Our Orlando investigators checked six of those forecasts against data the FBI, IBM, and Google have published since. Four are confirmed, one is still early, and one ...