Politically Exposed Person (PEP) match

[egomeister]

I've recently applied for a card where the application was held up due to a PEP match. The customer services suggested it was a false positive and cleared it after asking for a bit more identity info.

I'm quite intrigued how this would have occurred. I can't find anything obvious online searching for my name, especially if you consider they would cross reference against address / dob etc. I also can't think of any family links or anything to do with the address that could be relevant in the last 25 years!

Does anyone who works in the finance industry have any ideas?

[egomeister]

Thanks for the replies - I'm assuming it was a case of poor cross referencing / filtering rather than anything sinister.

If I have problems with anything else I'll look at requesting my data from world-check as they seem to off this for free for an individual!