National Fraud Initiative: private sector data specifications and non-public sector organisations

The NFI offers a number of different services that are available to all types of private and non-public sector organisations.

Read case studies showing how the NFI has helped other organisations.

All organisations can benefit from NFI’s payroll screening and trade creditors screening. You may also be interested in our bespoke screening service.

Our mortality screening service can identify where payments are being made to deceased pensioners or where deferred pensioners have died. It uses advanced data matching techniques that can replace the time and expense of sending life certification forms and can identify deaths of UK citizens abroad as well as deaths in the UK.

The NFI can provide data screening services to help your organisation address financial fraud risks. All new applications for credit can be checked on a real-time basis.

The NFI can also carry out retrospective checks of your existing customer data on a batch basis.

It is important for the voluntary sector that the money you have goes towards the charitable aims of your organisation. The NFI can help protect against fraud in this area by offering payroll and trade creditor screening services.

Taking part in the NFI helps to identify individuals who may be committing employment fraud by failing to work their contracted hours because they are employed elsewhere or are taking long-term sickness absences from one employer and working for another employer at the same time.

Publicising participation in the NFI should act as a strong deterrent against fraudulent employment applications and employee identity fraud.