KYB Verification
KYB verification software that clears real businesses in minutes
KYB (Know Your Business) verification confirms a company's legitimacy, ownership, and risk profile before onboarding. Zyphe runs the whole check as a service: AI agents pull the company's registry record, resolve ownership to the Ultimate Beneficial Owners, screen everyone against sanctions, PEP and adverse media lists, and hand your team a decision-ready case file.
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From company name to UBOs, in your brand
Enter a company name and the registry does the rest. The ownership structure resolves layer by layer down to the ultimate beneficial owners, in a flow that carries your brand, with thresholds and traversal depth yours to configure.
- White-label: your logo, colors and domain
- Registry-sourced ownership, layer by layer
- UBO thresholds and traversal depth you control
The data coverage behind every KYB check
Company records Zyphe's agents can verify against, worldwide
Global sanctions and PEP lists every business and UBO is screened against
Re-screening cycle that keeps every verified business current
KYB as a service, not another queue for your analysts
Send Zyphe a company name or registration number via the dashboard or API. The agents handle registry retrieval, document collection, UBO resolution and screening, then return one decision-ready file. Your team reviews and approves instead of chasing documents across registries.
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One KYB provider for registry data, UBOs and screening
Most know your business solutions stitch together separate vendors for KYB data, UBO checks and monitoring. Zyphe runs the full verification stack in a single flow.
Company Registry Verification
Confirm a company legally exists: registration status, directors and filings, sourced from primary registries across 500M+ company records.
UBO Identification
Resolve layered ownership structures to the natural persons behind the business, with each Ultimate Beneficial Owner verified and screened.
Sanctions, PEP & Adverse Media Screening
Screen the entity and every owner against 100K+ global sanctions and PEP lists plus 30K+ news sources, with false positives filtered out.
Continuous Monitoring
Every verified business is re-screened every 24 hours, so ownership changes and new list hits trigger alerts instead of surprises.
How Zyphe's KYB verification flow works
From company name to approved business in three steps, with your rules and risk thresholds applied throughout.
Enter a company name or registration number in the dashboard, or send it via API. Where a registry can't answer, the flow collects incorporation documents and proof of ownership directly from the customer, in your branding.
Zyphe's agents pull the company's primary-source registry record and walk the ownership tree layer by layer until they reach the Ultimate Beneficial Owners, at the threshold and traversal depth you configure.
The entity and its owners are screened against sanctions, PEP and adverse media lists, and the whole trace lands in one decision-ready case file. After approval, every profile is re-screened every 24 hours.
Verify businesses without hoarding their owners' data
KYB verification collects sensitive personal data: UBO passports, addresses, ownership documents. Zyphe encrypts and splits that data across a distributed network instead of one central database, so you keep the verification results and audit trail while the raw PII never sits in a honeypot that could be breached or subpoenaed.
KYB vs KYC: what's the difference?
KYC (Know Your Customer) verifies individual people: their identity documents, biometrics and risk profile. KYB (Know Your Business) verifies companies: legal existence, registry records, ownership structure and the people who ultimately own or control the entity.
In practice the two are inseparable. Every KYB check ends in a KYC check, because a business is only as legitimate as its Ultimate Beneficial Owners, and regulators expect you to identify and verify them as individuals. That's why Zyphe runs KYB and KYC in one flow: a corporate onboarding resolves the entity, its UBOs and their identity documents in a single case file, instead of bouncing between a business verification vendor and a separate identity check.
Read the full KYC vs KYB comparison →Better compliance in 190+ Countries
Banking Secrecy Act
Enforces strict record-keeping and reporting requirements for financial institutions to prevent money laundering and financial crimes in the United States.
Anti-money Laundering Act
Establishes measures and responsibilities for financial intermediaries in Switzerland to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing.
Proceeds of Crime
Canadian regulation requiring financial institutions to detect, prevent, and report suspicious transactions related to criminal proceeds.
Terrorist Financing Act
Legislation enforcing measures in Canada to detect, prevent, and report financial activities linked to terrorist financing.
Anti-money Laundering
Australian regulation mandating financial entities implement robust compliance measures to detect, prevent, and report money laundering activities.
Counter-Terrorism Financing Act
Australian law ensuring financial institutions identify, monitor, and report activities related to financing of terrorism to maintain national and global security.
Integrate in as little as 15 minutes
curl -X POST https://verify.zyphe.com/v1/login_sessions \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"auth_type": "email"}'
Frequent Questions
KYB (Know Your Business) verification is the process of confirming that a company is legitimate before doing business with it: checking that it legally exists in official registries, identifying who ultimately owns and controls it, and screening the entity and its owners for sanctions, PEP status and adverse media. It's the corporate counterpart to KYC and is required under anti-money-laundering rules in most jurisdictions.
With automated KYB software, a business with clean registry data can be verified in minutes: the registry lookup, UBO resolution and screening all run automatically. Manual processes take days to weeks, mostly spent chasing documents. Complex cases, such as multi-layer ownership across jurisdictions or businesses in registries without digital records, take longer because documents must be collected and reviewed, which Zyphe handles inside the same flow.
Typical KYB requirements include the certificate of incorporation or registry extract, proof of the registered address, the ownership or shareholding structure, and identity documents for directors and Ultimate Beneficial Owners. Where Zyphe can source a record directly from an official registry, the customer doesn't have to upload it, which cuts most of the document-chasing out of onboarding.
A KYB provider is a company that runs business verification as a service: registry access, UBO identification, sanctions and PEP screening, and ongoing monitoring, delivered through an API or dashboard instead of manual research. When comparing KYB providers, look at registry coverage, how deep UBO resolution goes, whether monitoring is included, and where the collected personal data ends up being stored.
Most KYB services are priced per business verified, with tiers by volume and add-ons for UBO resolution depth, registry document retrieval and monitoring. Zyphe prices per verification with continuous monitoring included. The most accurate number is a quote based on your volumes and jurisdictions. See Zyphe pricing
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