How can I detect a fake company?

Gathering information about a company and verifying the data through reputable sources helps detect if a company is fake.

Know Your Business is a set of compliance procedures that determine if a company is legitimate. It includes due diligence that assesses the risk of doing business with the entity.

An ultimate beneficial owner is a real person who owns or controls a business or legal entity. Various legal structures can make it difficult to identify UBOs.

What is the difference between KYC and KYB?

KYC is about conducting due diligence on people, while KYB is about doing the same for business entities. Business documentation and financial activities are generally more complex and pose a higher risk, so the verification and risk assessment requirements are more stringent.

Why do companies often need a KYB solution?

KYB often requires considerable time and effort. Automated KYB reduces costly manual checks, helps ensure accuracy with in-depth reporting and can improve risk evaluation to enhance fraud protection.

What is the KYB process?

A typical KYB process includes verifying business documentation, analyzing the company profile, performing a risk assessment, determining entity ownership and control, implementing enhanced due diligence and conducting ongoing monitoring.

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Verify organizations using any combination of business name, city and number. That includes VAT numbers and BRNs such as the handelsregisternummer (commercial registry number) that identifies a company in the German Trade Register.

Verify organizations using any combination of business numbers, such as a codice fiscale (tax code number) or a BRN through the Economic and Administrative Index (REA).

Verify organizations using any combination of name, location, address attributes and business number. That includes BRNs such as the KVK-nummer (Netherlands Chamber of Commerce number) or a VAT number.

Verify organizations using any combination of business name, address and number. That includes BRNs such as the KRS (National Court Register) and the National Official Register of Entities of the National Economy (REGON) numbers as well as VAT, or NIP (tax ID), numbers. Trulioo advanced data intelligence normalizes diacritics as well as name and address variations. City, postal code and street name can also be identified.

Verify organizations with enhanced business data, including name and address as well as VAT number or BRNs, including certificado de identificación fiscal (fiscal identification number).

Verify organizations using any combination of address, postal code, VAT number and BRNs, including charity and company registration numbers.

Verify organizations using any combination of business address and identification number, including state-by-state business numbers, tax IDs and employer identification numbers.

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