🧠 Insights from Alias Intelligence – August Dispatch
Unpacking investigative trends, policy reminders, vital tools & field tips in Due Diligence news.
🔎 Alias Intelligence Dispatch
Due Diligence News, Insights, and Field Notes
August 2025 Edition
It is great to have you here.
🗞️ From the Desk of Due Diligence
As we enter the final quarter stretch of the year, Alias Intelligence continues to push boundaries in investigative rigor and technology-driven insights. This edition is packed with actionable updates, policy reminders, and investigative highlights to keep you sharp in your work and informed about what’s ahead.
📂 Investigative Trends
📉 Litigation Lag
We’ve seen a 14% increase in out-of-scope litigation mistakenly identified due to aggregation tools. Reminder: always cross-reference with docket-level info and jurisdictional history before formatting.
→ Refer to Section 14.7 and 14.10 in Policies & Procedures for exact guidance on filtering.
💰 Source of Wealth Scrutiny
Clients are increasingly flagging unverified investment income. Ensure you’re citing credible indicators (royalties, family wealth, holdings, etc.) and not repeating vague media claims without support.
→ Review Section 7.4.14 and 3.13 for examples of acceptable verbiage.
🧭 Policy Reminders
No more than 30 formatted properties in Real Estate Assets unless approved by Investigations Leadership.
DO NOT report civil landlord/tenant plaintiff cases unless explicitly requested.
Reminder: Employment History modules must list 3 verification attempts in full detail (email/phone/portal screenshots).
🛠️ Tools You Should Be Using
Here’s a quick refresher on tech that’s saving investigators hours:
Subject Oracle: Identifies matching records across related subjects in a deal.
AutoGen Verbiage: Cleaner summaries, less manual writing. Be sure records are approved first.
GPT (Due Diligence Desk): Ask for module help, formatting guidance, or interpretation of obscure filings.
💬 Field Tip of the Month
“Bankruptcy dockets often contain more financial detail than the actual petition. Always read the full filing before formatting.”
— Senior Investigator, Asset Team
📊 Module of the Month: Corporate Affiliations Deep Dive (CADD)
CADD continues to deliver unmatched insight in complex subject cases. Use it to:
Track patterns of liability across shells and dissolved entities
Tie litigation to actual corporate control
Uncover hidden directorships and recurring partner names
→ Section 33 in the Policies and Procedures is your go-to. No skimming allowed.
📢 Alias in Action
We’ve expanded our international capabilities in Hong Kong, Panama, and the BVI. We now support:
Verified criminal & civil pulls
Business registration & corporate ownership tracing
Enhanced scoping workflows via new jurisdictional memory in Section 43.1
📅 What’s Coming
📖 Training on formatting foreign liens
🧾 Refresher on employment credit pulls and NY state restrictions
🎧 Internal podcast on high-risk verbiage: what’s too vague, what’s too strong
Thank you for all that you do. We know how hard this work is. Let’s keep the standard high.
Onward,
Alias Intelligence
Always investigate with intention.