Identify who ultimately owns or controls your customers
ArgusComply traces direct and indirect ownership across corporate structures to identify ultimate beneficial owners, verify ownership information, and support consistent customer due diligence.
The legal entity is only the first layer
Onboarding a business customer requires understanding the individuals behind it — not just the legal entity presented at onboarding. Ownership can run through holding companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, and multiple corporate layers across jurisdictions.
The problem
Teams must follow the relationships to the natural persons who ultimately own or control the entity, and verify the ownership trail against supporting information. The ownership analysis and supporting evidence have to be recorded as a consistent, traceable part of the customer's due diligence file.
With ArgusComply
ArgusComply traces ownership to the ultimate beneficial owners, verifies the trail, and keeps the full investigation in one due diligence record.
How UBO screening works. Start, trace, identify, verify
Establish the immediate relationships
Search the customer or organization being reviewed and establish its immediate corporate relationships.
UBO screening built for financial institutions
Identify ultimate beneficial owners
Trace direct and indirect shareholding relationships across multiple corporate layers to identify the individuals who ultimately own or control the customer.
Understand the ownership structure
Analyze ownership percentages, shareholding patterns, parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, and intermediate entities to build a clear view of the corporate structure.
Verify ownership information
Validate ownership relationships using supporting corporate and entity information, giving analysts the evidence needed to review the ownership trail before completing due diligence.
Document the investigation
Keep the ownership structure, supporting information, reviewer actions, and investigation history connected to the same case for a consistent and traceable review.
Strengthen beneficial ownership due diligence
See beyond the immediate customer
Move beyond the legal entity presented at onboarding to understand the individuals and corporate relationships behind it.
Reduce manual ownership research
Bring ownership percentages, corporate relationships, and supporting information together instead of reconstructing the ownership chain across separate sources.
Handle complex structures consistently
Give analysts a structured way to investigate multi-layer ownership, indirect shareholding, parent entities, subsidiaries, and affiliates.
Keep ownership reviews audit-ready
Maintain the ownership analysis, supporting evidence, analyst actions, and investigation history in a traceable record.
Know who is behind every business customer
See how ArgusComply can help your compliance team trace complex ownership structures, identify ultimate beneficial owners, and strengthen beneficial ownership due diligence.