Know Your Business (KYB)
Verify businesses, directors, and owners faster with deeper data, so teams onboard quickly, stay compliant and avoid hidden risks.

Hidden ownership, shell companies, and sanctioned UBOs can make it hard to find out who you’re dealing with. Your teams need deeper checks to identify true ownership, avoid fraud, and meet AML rules.
Red Flag Alert’s KYB checks combine business identity verification, UBO insight down to 0.01%, sanctions screening and credit risk assessment in one platform to prevent fraud and ensure compliance with auditable records.
Confirm a company details, registration status, and key facts to help verify the business’s legitimacy and match the information they provided.
See who’s really in control and identify where risk might sit by uncovering directors, officers, and beneficial owners down to 0.01% shareholding.
Screen businesses and key individuals against global sanctions, PEP lists, and adverse media to meet AML requirements and flag high-risk relationships early.
Get a full view of financial risk by combining business credit data with consumer credit checks on directors and UBOs, helping you assess the true risk of working with a company.
Verify business bank accounts, and linked personal accounts where relevant, to reduce fraud risk and ensure payments match the correct entities involved.
Store all checks, decisions, and alerts in one place your teams can demonstrate what was reviewed and stay updated on any changes to a business’s health or compliance status.
Search for a business, run the checks you need, and review the results all in one place to support your onboarding and due diligence processes.
Enter the business name or company number to pull up identity data, registration details, and key signals for more focused KYB checks.
Review director, officer, and ownership details, discover beneficial owners down to 0.01%, and screen key individuals for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.
Log KYB decisions with a clear audit trail and set up monitoring for higher-risk cases to stay alert to any changes in business health or compliance status.
Faster onboarding, reduced fraud, and stronger compliance. Better KYB checks help teams make smarter decisions with clearer evidence.
Verify businesses, uncover UBOs down to 0.01%, and screen for risks in one workflow to speed up onboarding without cutting corners.
Deep ownership, credit, and bank account data helps spot red flags early, helping you avoid costly mistakes before they happen.
All KYB checks, decisions, and monitoring are stored in one place, making audits and regulatory reviews straightforward.
KYB doesn’t have to be complicated. With Red Flag Alert, operators can run business checks, uncover UBOs, screen for risks, and store evidence, all in one place.
Accountancy
Manchester
“We’ve been working with Red Flag now for the last five years in what’s been a very, very steep growth journey for us and it’s been a very, very valuable partner.”
Business relationships often cross borders. Red Flag Alert’s KYB checks use global data and deep UBO insights to help your teams stay compliant, no matter where your partners are based.
KYB integrates with Lifecycle Intelligence to link business verification and ownership insight to credit risk, AML, and monitoring.
KYB supports Growth Intelligence by clarifying business, director, and UBO health to focus growth efforts on low-risk, high-value targets.
KYB sits within Onboarding and Compliance, helping teams verify businesses, directors, and UBOs, run AML screening, and maintain audit-ready records.
KYB connects to Portfolio Monitoring to track corporate clients and suppliers, alerting teams to risk profile changes.
A KYB check verifies a business’s identity, registration details, and ownership structure, including directors and beneficial owners down to 0.01%. It also screens for sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEPs), and adverse media, alongside financial insights like credit scores.
KYB checks help your business meet anti-money laundering (AML) and due diligence requirements. They confirm the legitimacy of the companies you work with, uncover ownership structures, and flag compliance risks such as sanctions or PEP connections.
Yes. Red Flag Alert uses global business and UBO data to perform KYB checks on international companies, helping you stay compliant no matter where your partners or clients are based.
KYB works alongside AML screening and identity verification (IDV). Red Flag Alert combines business verification with AML, IDV, and ongoing monitoring, giving you a complete and unified view of risk.
Yes. All KYB checks, decisions, and monitoring records are stored in one place, providing a clear, time-stamped audit trail for regulators, auditors, or client reviews.
Our KYB checks are standardised and updated in real time, which reduces human error and ensures consistency. We screen against global sanctions lists, PEP databases, and adverse media, all with a full digital audit trail, so you can prove compliance to regulators without manual paperwork. Our proprietary insolvency score (92% accuracy) and predictive growth score (98% accuracy) also help you spot risks and opportunities earlier than competitors.
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