Solutions · Financial services

Financial Services

Streamline client onboarding with automated KYB verification, from registry discovery to UBO screening.

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Target entity

Meridian Pay Limited

BR 7123 4567 · Live · Layer 0

Chan Tai Man 60% direct
Northwind Holdings Ltd 40% direct
Chan Tai Man 24.8% indirect

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UBO

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Layers

4

Sources

The challenge

What slows teams down

Financial institutions face stringent AML/CFT regulations when onboarding business clients, while still being expected to move quickly.

  • Comprehensive Customer Due Diligence (CDD) requirements
  • Ultimate Beneficial Owner identification and verification
  • Sanctions and PEP screening for all relevant parties
  • Ongoing monitoring of client relationships
  • Regulatory audits requiring complete documentation
  • Pressure to onboard clients quickly while maintaining compliance

Where QuickKYB fits

Built around how your team actually reviews entities

Each workflow keeps registry evidence, ownership calculations, and reviewer decisions in the same case file.

Banks and lending institutions

  • Corporate account opening
  • UBO identification across ownership layers
  • Watchlist and PEP screening
  • Loan underwriting and related-party checks
  • HKMA and AMLO documentation

Fintech and digital banks

  • API integration into onboarding flows
  • Instant entity verification
  • Scalable processing without manual steps
  • Pay-per-case pricing without subscriptions

Payment service providers

  • Merchant onboarding and legitimacy checks
  • Shell company and fraud detection
  • TCSP licence screening
  • Ongoing monitoring for ownership changes

Investment firms and asset managers

  • Investor due diligence
  • Multi-layer fund and holding structures
  • PEP identification
  • Audit-ready compliance documentation

Key benefits

Less manual tracing. More defensible decisions.

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Faster onboarding

Reduce KYB verification from days to minutes and remove manual document collection.

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Reduced costs

No upfront investment or subscription. Pay only for the searches you perform.

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Enhanced compliance

AMLO, HKMA, and FATF-aligned workflows with a complete audit trail.

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Better risk management

Watchlist screening, shell-company detection, TCSP/MSO checks, and litigation history.

Use cases

Where this shows up in the file

Corporate account opening

Verify registration, identify shareholders and directors, trace UBOs, screen individuals, and generate the file.

Fintech customer onboarding

Verify registration during signup, screen UBOs in real time, flag high-risk applications, and support auto-approval rules for low-risk cases.

Loan underwriting

Verify borrower authenticity, check litigation and enforcement actions, identify related parties, and verify director identities.

Compliance coverage

What the workflow supports

  • ✓ Hong Kong AMLO Customer Due Diligence
  • ✓ UBO identification and verification
  • ✓ Ongoing monitoring of high-risk clients
  • ✓ 7-year record-keeping
  • ✓ HKMA corporate governance guidance
  • ✓ FATF beneficial ownership recommendations

Map ownership structures your registries can't show

QuickKYB reveals every layer between companies and the people who control them.