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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
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
Search ASIC registers / ABN Lookup
ASIC's register search at asic.gov.au covers Australian companies and ABN Lookup at abr.business.gov.au is free; 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
Search Belgium KBO/BCE Public Search: Crossroads Bank for Enterprises
Belgium's KBO/BCE Public Search at kbopub.economie.fgov.be covers every registered entity, in English, with no login and no published search fee.
- Jurisdiction
Search Corporations Canada: Federal Corporation Lookup
Corporations Canada at ised-isde.canada.ca runs the federal corporation search; it publishes no certified-document fees, and provincial registries are separate.
- Jurisdiction
Denmark company search: CVR (datacvr.virk.dk)
Denmark's CVR at datacvr.virk.dk served a challenge page titled Just a moment..., so its 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 (infogreffe.fr)
Infogreffe at infogreffe.fr issues the French Kbis extract, with Data INPI and the BODACC gazette alongside it; no fees are published on those 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.
- Jurisdiction
Search Greece GEMI: Look Up Any Greek Company in 2026
Greece's GEMI commercial register at businessportal.gr offers company search in Greek and English, with the AFM as identifier; it publishes no extract fees.