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Jurisdiction guides, compliance education, and registry comparisons.
- Educational
Enhanced Due Diligence in 2026: When Standard CDD Isn't Enough
Enhanced due diligence (EDD) triggers, depth requirements, and workflow. PEPs, FATF grey list jurisdictions, complex ownership, source of funds, and Wolfsberg Group correspondent banking guidance.
- Educational
Customer Due Diligence Checklist for Fund Administrators in 2026
A practical CDD workflow for fund administrators onboarding new vehicles, investors, and counterparties. Entity verification, UBO mapping, sanctions screening, and ongoing monitoring.
- Educational
What is Ultimate Beneficial Ownership? UBO Explained for Compliance Teams in 2026
Ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) is the natural person who ultimately owns or controls a company. Thresholds, registers, FATF Recommendation 24, EU 5AMLD, and the practical workflow.
- Global Guide
Global Business Due Diligence in 2026: A Compliance Team's Reference Guide
How to verify any company anywhere. Registries by region, jurisdiction comparison, FATF/OECD framework, UBO disclosure, and a workflow compliance teams use in 2026.
- Jurisdiction
ABN Lookup and Search ASIC Registers: Australia Company Search
ABN Lookup at abr.business.gov.au loaded as ABN Lookup on one route and closed on the other; Search ASIC registers at asic.gov.au covers Australian companies, and ASIC extracts cost AUD 10 to AUD 43.
- Jurisdiction
Austria company search: Firmenbuch (justizonline.gv.at)
Austria's Firmenbuch is reached through JustizOnline at justizonline.gv.at, whose search builds in the browser; the site publishes no extract fees.
- Jurisdiction
BCE / KBO Public Search: Belgium Company Lookup
Use Belgium's KBO / BCE Public Search at kbopub.economie.fgov.be to look up a company by enterprise number, name, activity or address, in English, with no login and no published fee.
- Jurisdiction
Federal Corporation Search Canada: Corporations Canada
How to run a federal corporation search in Canada: Corporations Canada at ised-isde.canada.ca links Search for a federal corporation; certified-document fees are not published, and provincial registries are separate.
- Jurisdiction
CVR / datacvr Company Search: Denmark (datacvr.virk.dk)
Look up a Danish company in the CVR at datacvr.virk.dk; that host served a challenge page titled Just a moment..., so search, fees and beneficial ownership data could not be confirmed.
- Jurisdiction
Search Finland PRH / Kaupparekisteri / YTJ
How to search Finland's Trade Register (Kaupparekisteri) through PRH and YTJ at ytj.fi: Y-tunnus formats, English access, certified extracts and open APIs.
- Jurisdiction
France Company Search Infogreffe: Kbis Extract (infogreffe.fr)
France company search on Infogreffe at infogreffe.fr is how you order a Kbis extract; Data INPI served a challenge page titled Just a moment..., and no fees are published on the Infogreffe pages.
- Jurisdiction
Search Germany Registerportal (Handelsregister)
Germany's Handelsregister is reached through the Registerportal at handelsregister.de; it publishes no fees, and the interface stays mostly German.