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Complex KYB

Institutional onboarding, simplified with AI.

Automatically map complex corporate ownership structures - trusts, nominees, layered holding companies - across onboarding, periodic reviews, and trigger events. Months of analyst work, resolved in minutes.

THE PROBLEM

Complex ownership shouldn't take months.

Most compliance teams still rely on email, manual follow-ups, and fragmented tooling for complex entity onboarding - and it stays broken through the customer's whole lifecycle: periodic reviews, trigger events, ownership changes.

Email back-and-forth

Documents arrive in threads, get lost, and can’t be linked to cases automatically.

– No single source of truth

– Hours lost chasing submissions

– No audit trail on requests

Onboarding delays

Chasing missing documents holds up live clients and delays revenue activation.

– 3–4 month average cycle

– Manual ownership calculation

– Inconsistent regulatory logic

Manual organisation

Analysts re-key data from scans. Spreadsheets track what software should.

– Errors in ownership percentages

– Missed UBOs in complex layers

– 30+ hrs per complex entity

Ongoing DD is worse

Periodic reviews and trigger events repeat the same pain – indefinitely, with no tooling built for it.

– No structured review workflows

– Manual re-analysis from scratch

– Regulatory exposure every cycle

THE SOLUTION

Every layer. Every entity. Every time.

Each capability is built for real-world KYB complexity - configurable, audit-ready, and integrated from first contact to ongoing compliance.

  • Secure document collection

    Customers upload via branded link, email, or QR code — no portal login. Documents link to cases automatically. 60–70% faster collection.

  • OCR & text extraction

    Converts scanned PDFs, poor-quality images, and Word files into structured data. Proven on 29-page scanned documents.

  • UBO and ownership mapping

    Multi-agent AI maps all ownership layers with PCC59/MLRs 2017 logic. Deduplicates roles. Trust and nominee look-through included.

  • Registry data integration

    Real-time data from CIPC, Companies House, and OpenCorporates enriches uploaded documents automatically - no manual lookup.

  • Ownership graph and gap flags

    Interactive ownership tree highlights missing beneficiaries, unresolved holding companies, and nominee arrangements automatically.

  • Iterative re-analysis

    Re-runs ownership mapping as new documents arrive. Graph updates progressively - no starting over. Consistent logic across all parties.

  • Configurable screening

    Biometric IDV for directors, PEP/sanctions for shareholders, EDD workflows - triggered automatically by party type, not manually configured per case.

  • Ongoing DD & monitoring

    Periodic review workflows, trigger-based events, dynamic re-risking, and ODD orchestration - built into the same platform as onboarding.

  • Full audit trail

    Every entity addition, ownership change, document upload, and decision timestamped and linked to the customer record as a single auditable event.

BEYOND THE BASICS

Built for speed. Reduce time to revenue.

With Complex KYB, onboard complex entities in minutes, not months.

Layered Ownership Resolution

Map ownership through holding companies, trusts, and nominee arrangements automatically — surfacing every natural-person UBO, even several layers deep, with calculated percentages and full source documentation.

Solutions: KYB compliance solutions

Cross-Border & Multi-Jurisdiction Structures

Resolve ownership across entities registered in different countries in a single case. Registry data from CIPC, Companies House, and OpenCorporates is pulled in automatically to corroborate documents and fill gaps.

Features - AML Software (Modern Integration)

Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)

When an ownership graph surfaces a high-risk entity, trust, or jurisdiction, route it directly into deeper screening or EDD - without re-collecting documents or rebuilding the structure from scratch.

Solutions: KYC Customer Screening

Periodic Structure Reviews

Ownership changes — directors come and go, shareholdings shift, new entities are added. Re-run the analysis on a scheduled or trigger-based cycle to keep the structure current without starting over each time.

Customer lifecycle requests
OUR IMPACT

Know the ownership. Unstand the risk.

Automates document collection, ownership resolution, screening, verification, and audit trails - end-to-end. Your team focuses on decisions.

5 → 22 UBOs identified

UBOs identified in a complex structure in minutes - versus 5 found by a manual analyst review of the same entity.

Weeks, not minutes

Reduce time to revenue by onboarding complex entites faster and activating clients sooner.

60-70%

Reduction in document collection time using Customer Lifecycle Requests versus email-based workflows.

Hours to minutes

Complex entity analysis that used to take days of analyst time, done automatically - reducing manual compliance costs.

29pg

Scanned PDFs - including poor-quality images - automatically ingested and interpreted without manual re-keying.

3 months → 2 weeks

Full institutional onboarding cycle compressed to a 2-week, regulator-grade workflow.

Ready to end the document chase?

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