Austrian RegTech firm kompany announced today the launch of its newest anti-money laundering compliance solution designed to ease ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) discovery for regulated entities across the world.
Achieving full insight into cross-border shareholder structures ranks as the most difficult and time-consuming challenge for compliance teams. Now time spent on this AML compliance requirement can be significantly reduced.
With a longstanding history of making the traditionally inaccessible, accessible, kompany has developed its latest product to simplify the search and discovery process of shareholders through its application of their category-leading artificial intelligence engine.
“Shareholder information mainly consists of unstructured data, often hidden in PDFs, with little to no consistency in how it’s collected, recorded or stored.” describes kompany CEO and Co-founder Russell E. Perry. Compliance teams are tasked with wading through these PDFs, often composed of inconsistently designed forms and even low-quality scans. Even within the same register, different regional bodies can submit the filings in a variety of ways. A new and innovative method was required to resolve the challenges posed by this paper-dominated and inconsistent approach.
There are two particularly unique features of UBO discovery, the first of which includes the ability to break down jurisdictional barriers to display cross-border ownership information in real-time and on-demand. The second significant feature includes the intuitive visualisation of the ownership structure, which presents complex shareholder networks in an easy-to-read format. UBO discovery is also available via API, allowing it to scale according to the client’s requirements and transforms the currently manual, time-intensive and costly process to an automated and efficient one.
“An estimated 80% of all company information in registers around the world is only available as unstructured data. As the costs and risks of non-compliance increase, the market is very much craving a solution like UBO discovery to enable smarter, faster and complete compliance.” added Perry, “Our goal is to maintain our reputation as an industry leader in RegTech and stay ahead of the regulatory burden through technology.”
kompany is proud to transform the due diligence experience for its clients around the world by giving them the latest tools and technology to stay compliant now and into the future.