KYB and UBO · Convert and manage

Verify the business. Prove who really controls it.

Onboard corporate customers without the offshore holding company stalling the sale, and hand the regulator a defensible view of who owns and controls the entity. One integration reaches every country register, unwraps ownership layer by layer to the real people, and keeps the entity under continuous re-KYB.

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Ownership graph: the entity unwrapped to the real controller
UBO
Real controller identified
three layers deep · on the trail
A fund administrator A private bank A specialist lender A corporate services firm A global auction house names on request
Why they chose it
“The offshore holding structure used to stall the whole onboarding, and we would lose momentum on the deal. Now we unwrap the ownership to the real controller in one place, and we can show an examiner exactly how we got to the person behind the entity, layer by layer.

Head of Risk · offshore fund administrator · 6 years

What you can do today

Shipped, non-AI, running on real data.

Trace ownership to the real people, reach every register from one integration, corroborate every fact, and keep the entity under continuous re-KYB.

Ownership tree: holding companies, trusts, nominees
Unwrap the ownership

Trace it to the real controller

Multi-source discovery traces ownership through holding companies, trusts, and nominees, including the controller who sits below 25% at every layer but controls the whole in aggregate. The full KYB pipeline typically surfaces 2 to 4 times more associated persons than a manual process.

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Register routing: one integration, every country
Reach every register

Every country, one integration

Route each entity to the right national register, waterfall across sources for coverage, and fail over automatically when one is down. 53 pre-integrated vendors, and a new register connects in roughly 1 to 2 weeks by configuration, not a rebuild.

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Fact cross-referenced against more than one source
Corroborate, do not just match

A match is not a fact confirmed

A registry match confirms a company was registered, not that its facts are true. Every fact is cross-referenced against more than one source and written as one of 32 immutable audit events an examiner can read. Honest limit: orchestration combines what exists and cannot exceed the underlying data quality, and US beneficial-ownership coverage is marked partial after the FinCEN March 2025 rule change.

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Continuous re-KYB: daily and on change
Continuous re-KYB

Keep the entity under watch

A verification right at onboarding can be wrong within weeks. Entities re-screen daily and on change: an ownership restructure, insolvency, a UBO becoming sanctioned, or the entity being struck off. Manual UBO override lets a human correct the graph. Compensated across 209 countries at 16 risk indicators each.

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Under every layer, a tamper-proof trail you export for a regulator in one click. Honest about the limits, so where a jurisdiction's data runs thin, we say so.

The marketplace

One integration, every register and vendor you trust.

Genuinely agnostic, and a partner who helps you choose the right register. 53 pre-integrated vendors, no lock-in, ever.

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2 to 4x
more associated persons than a manual process
53
vendors behind one integration
209
countries, 16 risk indicators each
1 to 2 wks
to connect a new register by configuration
Zenoo Labs · alpha and beta

The entity dossier drafts itself, for a human to confirm.

With design partners, we are testing a KYB Researcher agent that drafts a cited entity dossier for a human to confirm, plus AI field mapping that drafts a new connector from a vendor's API docs. Human-in-the-loop and opt-in, never an automatic decision.

AI investigates, humans decide.
Labs: the cited entity dossier drafted for review

Already live on Zenoo

Fund administrator

55 onboarding links in week one, 19 investors and entities completed live.

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Private bank

Offshore structures unwrapped to the real controller, layer by layer.

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Corporate services firm

Every country register reached from one integration, continuous re-KYB on change.

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We publish no customer names. Their compliance stack is their security, and named references are shared privately on request.

Where this does not reach

The platform orchestrates KYB and ongoing monitoring. It does not file suspicious activity reports, set its own risk ratings, or automatically close cases. Where a jurisdiction publishes no structured beneficial-ownership data, coverage is marked as partial. Orchestration cannot produce data that does not exist at the source.

Questions

KYB and UBO, answered honestly.

What does KYB mean and how is it different from KYC?

KYB (Know Your Business) is the process of verifying a company's legal identity, financial standing, and ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO). Where KYC verifies a person, KYB must trace through layers of holding companies, trusts, and nominees to find the real people behind the entity. In practice that means reaching national company registers, corroborating registry data against multiple sources, and maintaining that picture as ownership changes over time.

What is a UBO and what counts as a threshold?

A UBO (ultimate beneficial owner) is the real human who ultimately owns or controls a company, regardless of how many intermediate entities sit between them and the business. Most jurisdictions use a 25% ownership or voting-rights threshold as the primary trigger, but the platform also surfaces controllers who sit below 25% at every individual layer yet hold effective control in aggregate. Manual UBO override lets a compliance team add, remove, or correct the graph where the data does not reflect the real-world structure.

How do you handle offshore or multi-layer structures?

Multi-source discovery traces ownership layer by layer: the platform routes each entity to the right national register, waterfalls across sources when one is unavailable, and works recursively through nested holding companies, trusts, and nominees. Honest limit: where a jurisdiction publishes no beneficial-ownership register, the coverage is marked as such. Orchestration cannot produce data that does not exist at the source.

Is continuous re-KYB the same as perpetual KYC?

The idea is the same: keep the entity under ongoing watch rather than treating onboarding as a one-time event, applied to corporate entities and their ownership chains. An entity re-screens daily and on trigger events: a UBO becoming sanctioned, a restructure, insolvency, or the entity being struck off. For the equivalent treatment on individuals, see the perpetual KYC solution.

What is the US beneficial-ownership coverage gap you mention?

Following the FinCEN March 2025 rule change, US corporate beneficial-ownership data submitted under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is no longer available to private-sector queries in the way it was expected to be. The platform marks US BO coverage as partial and routes to alternative sources where available, but the gap is real and we would rather be clear about it than overstate coverage.

How long does it take to connect a new country register?

The common adapter interface means connecting a new register is configuration, not a code rebuild. A new register typically connects in roughly 1 to 2 weeks depending on the API documentation available and any authentication requirements from the registry. A build step is required where no structured API exists.

Verify the business. Prove who controls it. Keep it under watch.

Bring an offshore structure that stalled your last onboarding. We will unwrap it live in thirty minutes.

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