About The Diligence Review

The Diligence Review is an independent English magazine about corporate investigations and due diligence. It explains how companies and their advisers check a counterparty before a deal, how a fraud or a dispute is investigated, how money that has been moved is traced, how evidence is preserved for a court, and how compliance programmes and anti-money-laundering checks work inside regulated firms.

What the magazine covers

The site is organised in three sections. Due diligence covers verification before a transaction: company records, ownership, litigation history, reputation and the handling of red flags. Fraud and investigations covers the response to an incident: forensic accounting, asset tracing, interviews and the evidence file a court will read. Compliance and regulation covers the rules and the records: know-your-customer and anti-money-laundering duties, compliance monitoring and monitorships, and the handling of digital evidence. A fourth section holds a glossary of the working terms of the field.

Who it is written for

The magazine is written for the people who commission, run or read this kind of work: compliance officers, in-house counsel, finance directors, investigators, consultancies and journalists. The writing assumes an intelligent reader without assuming a legal or accounting background, and it explains the reason behind a step rather than only describing it.

How the articles are put together

Every article is written in the third person and based on public sources, published standards and professional practice. Where a figure, a date or a fee is not published by the body that would hold it, the text says so rather than filling the gap. No person, address, case or number is invented, and no organisation is described as if this magazine were part of it. Where an external source is useful, it is named and linked so a reader can check the original.

Editorial independence

The Diligence Review sells nothing. It does not offer investigations, legal advice or compliance services, and it does not recommend a firm, a supplier or a product. Nothing on the site is a substitute for advice on a specific matter, which depends on facts and on the law that applies to them. The magazine exists to make a technical field legible to the people who have to work in it.

Corrections

Errors are corrected when they are found. A correction is made in the article itself rather than in a separate notice, and a reader who spots a mistake is invited to write to the editors through the contact page. The legal notice sets out who edits the site, where it is hosted and how personal data is handled.