Proofenance
Elevator pitch
Proofenance is the compliance and payments layer for UK art market participants — galleries, dealers, and auction houses.
Each purchase is a sale in one place: identity checks, due diligence, payments, and staff actions attach to that deal instead of living in inboxes and spreadsheets. The outcome is a ProofMarked Report you can defend to your MLRO, your bank, or HMRC.
What Proofenance does
Sale-first compliance
KYC and AML scoped to each purchase. Proofenance tells your team what applies to that deal and records what was done.
Identity and diligence
Document verification, screening, and due diligence on the same sale file — for buyers and, where your policy requires, sellers or consignors.
Payments on the sale
Bank and card flows linked to verified counterparties, with open banking where you need source-of-funds evidence.
ProofMarked Report
One export of the sale's touchpoints: what you ran, what you chose to include, and what the system recorded.
Why it matters
Art-market AML is tied to real sales at real values. Proofenance keeps compliance on the deal so staff stay with the customer — and you have a defensible file when someone asks later.