Customer

Private or corporate, buyer or seller - this is your counterparty.

Private Individuals

One or more natural persons making the purchase. They could be paying from their own bank account when there is a single buyer, or from a joint account when two or more buy together.

Natural persons on the purchase

Add one or more private buyers, edit their details on the sale, and pull fields from identity documents when you already hold them.

Buyer profile

Edit any details about each buyer on this sale.

Extract details

Proofenance automatically extracts details from client identity documents.

Customer tab showing Buyer Information for two private individuals with person details and add person control

Corporate Ownership

All company names, registry numbers, and people shown in this section are fictional and used only as examples to illustrate the system.

When the buyer is a company, enjoy Proofenance's advanced technology to efficiently list directors and persons with significant control ready for your KYB steps.

Start with the buying organisation

Proofenance integrates with national company registers to automatically find details about corporate buyers and their directors and persons with significant control.

Companies House

For supported jurisdictions, search by name or number to pull registration details and PSCs onto the sale.

Customer tab prompting to add an organisation with United Kingdom location, Companies House search, or manual add

Manual entry

For jurisdictions not supported for automated lookup, you can manually add the organisation details for the sale.

Choose who needs identity checks

Select the relevant directors, officers, individual PSCs, and corporate owners like Trusts. These can be edited at any time later.

Person Appointments

Some persons may have multiple roles - select the relevant positions for this sale.

Add people to the organisation step with Add buttons for directors and persons with significant control and Confirm

Company profile for this sale

Proofenance pulls in any available data about the selected company. This can be edited or added manually as required.

Company profile

Publicly available legal details

Organisation profile for Proofenance Ltd showing company information, registered address, flags, and directors in chain

Ownership chain

Visual depiction of related parties to this company.

Nested corporate ownership

When a corporate buyer is a subsidiary of another company, or owned by a Trust for example, Proofenance uses its proprietary technology to walk up the ownership chain (where available) to find directors and PSCs at every level. Where the same person is found in multiple roles, Proofenance automatically dedupilicates them.

Parent company

Each company in the chain appears with its own officers and PSCs.

Ownership structure

Clear diagram showing the ownership structure of the company.

People and related organisations in chain showing Hanobin Limited under Proofenance Ltd with Link icon matching duplicate director

Link Icon

This indicates that Proofenance matched this person to multiple ownership positions and deduplicated them.

Related company

Each company's details are automatically pulled from the register (where available).

Company Persons

From the overall company structure, Proofenance identifies and pulls in the details of all the persons associated with the buyer company. They are automatically added to the sale for review and identity verification.

Companies House data

Various data are automatically sourced, like Name and date of birth

Director and PSC person cards with extracted name and date of birth plus add person or related company form

Add relation

Bring on another person or related company.

Special cases: HMRC verification

For UK corporate buyers, Proofenance sources Director and PSC identity verification status from Companies House directly onto the sale.

Add evidence

Upload or request further proof when your policy needs more than the Companies House register record.

Customer person card showing Identity and Address Verification with Companies House identity confirmed and Add Evidence button

Identity (Companies House)

Identity is already marked confirmed from Companies House data.

Further Details on Companies House confirmation

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