Companies

The list of every legal entity (Ltd, LLP, partnership, charity, etc.) your firm has onboarded. This is the KYB-focused surface: incorporation verification, beneficial-owner mapping, AML screening of the company itself, and (in a later phase) company credit reports.

Where to find it

Sidebar → Companies (the Building icon).

What's shown

Each row gives you:

• Company name: registered name, as on Companies House.
• Compliance status: current KYB state of this company's file.
• Identity / KYB: has the company's incorporation been verified?
• Risk: Low / Medium / High based on the latest assessment.
• AML: Clear / Hits requiring review / Not run.
• Last check: when the AML or BO data was last refreshed.

What you can do here

• Add Company: capture company name, registered number, incorporation date, addresses, and (optionally) seed the beneficial owners in the same step.
• AML Check: run AML screening against the company name.
• Bulk import: CSV import for migrating existing client lists. Use company as the type (business is also accepted). Map Company number to keep the registration number. Imports do not assign a risk rating, even if the CSV contains one; complete the risk assessment to set it.
• Filters: narrow by compliance status, risk, AML, monitoring, or free-text name search.

What makes a company different from an individual

A company file needs evidence the individual file does not:

• Incorporation proof: Companies House extract, certificate of incorporation.
• Registered office: current registered address.
• Directors: current appointment list.
• Beneficial owners (BOs): anyone holding ≥25% ownership or significant control under MLR 2017 reg 5.
• Ownership %: recorded per BO, used to flag concentrated control or complex structures.
• PSC (Persons with Significant Control) flags: from Companies House PSC register.

That's why Companies has a separate top-level entry, a different profile layout, and (soon) a dedicated Structure tab.

How it relates to Individuals

If a beneficial owner is also someone you have onboarded as an individual client, you can link them so:

• Their KYC evidence is referenced from the company's file.
• The Compliance Pack export for the company includes their KYC PDF.
• The individual's own profile gets a Companies entry showing every company they're a BO of.

See the Individuals guide for the other side of the link.

What's coming next

• Structure tab: visual BO map with ownership %, directors, PSC flags, drawn from Companies House.
• Credit & Financials: company credit report, payment history, accounts summary (commercial intelligence, separate from AML).
• Group structure: parent / subsidiary relationships for clients that sit in a larger group.

Related

• Individuals
• Client compliance status
• TruePersona: identity + AML
• Ongoing monitoring

The company search wizard saves the country of incorporation and requests a Companies House record copy for both new and existing company clients.