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Know Your Business (KYB)

Onboard with confidence. Comply with certainty. Go deeper than the registry.

Know Your Business (KYB) from Cedar Rose provides the clarity and verification required to onboard with confidence in regions where public records are incomplete, fragmented, or entirely non-digitised. In an era of intensifying regulation and rising financial crime, organisations cannot rely on automated registry checks alone; they need a deeper, more contextual understanding of who they are working with. Cedar Rose’s KYB solution uncovers hidden ownership, validates corporate legitimacy, and confirms the identity, structure, and risk profile of companies across the Middle East, Africa, and frontier markets. Through multilingual analysis, cultural nuance, in-language verification, registry access, and trusted local networks, we surface the truth behind corporate entities even when documentation is scarce. Whether used for onboarding, supplier vetting, investment assessment, or compliance frameworks, our KYB intelligence reduces uncertainty, strengthens governance, and ensures you make decisions grounded in accurate, verified data.
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Backed by Experience. Built for Complexity.

With more than 25 years of experience in the world’s most opaque corporate environments, Cedar Rose has developed a KYB methodology capable of revealing hidden risks where most providers cannot. Our analysts work in Arabic, French, Kurdish, Farsi, and other regional languages, interpret naming conventions, identify cultural nuances, and access official registries—even those still reliant on paper records. By combining proprietary datasets, on-the-ground intelligence, and direct source validation, we confirm legal identity, ownership, governance, and risk indicators with precision. Whether validating a contractor in the Gulf, a distributor in North Africa, or a fintech partner in a frontier economy, we provide clarity that supports AML, KYC, UBO, and global compliance requirements. 

What’s Included in Our KYB Solution 

 

Legal Entity Verification

Confirm company legitimacy through incorporation details, legal status, licensing information, jurisdiction data, historical records, and national identifiers where available. Verified via registries, chambers of commerce, courts, and trusted in-market sources.

Director & Shareholder Profiling

Identify key individuals behind the entity by mapping directors, shareholders, authorised signatories, affiliated companies, and risk indicators tied to principals. Supports governance analysis and early detection of exposure.

UBO Discovery

Trace corporate ownership through offshore entities, nominees, trusts, and family networks to reveal ultimate beneficial owners. Our analysts map complex structures step by step, exposing true human controllers even in opaque jurisdictions.

Sanctions, PEP & Adverse Media Checks

Screen entities and individuals across global sanctions lists, PEP classifications, watchlists, enforcement actions, and multilingual negative media sources. Human validation reduces false positives and improves regulatory accuracy.

Human-Verified Accuracy

Analysts cross-check ambiguous matches, resolve contradictory records, translate documents, and validate details through trusted local sources. This ensures accuracy and defensibility across high-risk markets.

Group Structure Mapping

Visualise parent companies, subsidiaries, related entities, and indirect control relationships. Mapping exposes hidden influence, cross-border shareholding patterns, and links to high-risk networks.

Historical Tracking & Monitoring

Track changes in legal status, shareholders, directors, financial health, and sanctions exposure. Continuous monitoring protects you against evolving risk after onboarding.

Fraud & Identity Risk Signals

Identify duplicate entities, mismatched identifiers, unusual registration behaviour, shell-company indicators, and other patterns associated with fraud or illicit activity.

How It Works in Real Environments

 KYB intelligence integrates across onboarding, procurement, compliance, investment, and risk workflows where accuracy and speed are essential. 

 

Banking onboarding
KYB checks validate legal identity, ownership, and sanctions status before account activation or credit approval.
Fintech merchant vetting
Real-time KYB screens ensure merchants are legitimate before enabling payment processing or marketplace access.
Supplier verification
Manufacturers confirm supplier legitimacy and ownership to prevent fraud and operational disruption.
Government contractor checks
Public-sector teams verify bidders to prevent corruption, misrepresentation, and compliance violations.
Investor due diligence
Private equity firms confirm entity integrity and UBO pathways before committing capital.
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Banking onboarding
KYB checks validate legal identity, ownership, and sanctions status before account activation or credit approval.
Fintech merchant vetting
Real-time KYB screens ensure merchants are legitimate before enabling payment processing or marketplace access.
Supplier verification
Manufacturers confirm supplier legitimacy and ownership to prevent fraud and operational disruption.
Government contractor checks
Public-sector teams verify bidders to prevent corruption, misrepresentation, and compliance violations.
Investor due diligence
Private equity firms confirm entity integrity and UBO pathways before committing capital.
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Why Choose Us

Why Choose Cedar Rose for KYB?

MEA expertise at depth

Multilingual analysts, cultural knowledge, and registry access reveal insights in regions where transparency is low and naming conventions are complex.

Speed without sacrifice

API, batch, and portal options deliver fast KYB checks while maintaining accuracy, completeness, and regulatory alignment.

Investigative escalation

When anomalies appear, our investigative teams validate documents, verify identity, and confirm structures through local intelligence.

Compliance-ready output

Aligned with FATF, EU AMLD, DFSA, GCC rules, and more—complete with audit trails and defensible documentation.

Detection of hidden risk

Fraud signals, ownership anomalies, and regional red flags reveal exposure early, supporting safer onboarding and decisions.

AI-optimised delivery

Structured, machine-readable KYB data feeds seamlessly into onboarding engines, LLM tools, scoring models, and automated workflows.

Our Edge

Values And Approach

 

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Don’t Let Unreliable Data Derail Your Growth!

Incomplete unreliable data and limited risk visibility don't just slow your company down; they actively sabotage its growth. Without comprehensive standardised, reliable quality data, you expose your business to unnecessary risks which complicate your ability to analyse the market landscape, and develop effective strategies.

Worse yet, compliance missteps, especially in new markets, can lead to costly fines that stifle your growth and tarnish your reputation. All this is also compounded by slow, manual processes that leave you scrambling to keep up, ultimately costing you deals, partnerships, and valuable time. 

The thing is, high growth often means high-risk exposure, and the only way to navigate risk is through data. When harnessed correctly, data serves as your north star, guiding you through the maze of growth. 

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Data Should Work Where

You Work

Your KYB processes must fit your systems, not the other way around. Cedar Rose delivers verified entity intelligence directly into CRMs, ERPs, onboarding engines, procurement tools, risk models, and AI environments. Our structured, multilingual, human-verified datasets ensure your teams and automated systems operate with accurate, context-rich intelligence. Wherever compliance, onboarding, or supplier validation begins, our KYB data arrives instantly, securely, and ready for use.