 Registered in London, World-Check was founded in 2000 by David Leppan to address the risk mitigation requirements of the Swiss banking community.Uptime iTechnology firm founded by Nikolaus Kimla were the developers of World-Check and it was known then as a risk intelligence platform but was later sold to Thomson Reuters.During 2008, World-Check launched Country-Check, an index that ranks over 240 countries and territories worldwide in terms of risk.