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A detailed exploration of the powerful features within the FrankieOne KYB platform. Understand how each component maps to our API to create a secure, efficient, and compliant business verification workflow.

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Available Features

These features are available today in the FrankieOne KYB platform.
What it is: This is our core business verification engine. It validates a company’s details directly against authoritative registries worldwide, including ABN/ACN in Australia. It confirms the business name, incorporation status, and registration identifiers.Key Benefits:
  • Ensure Counterparties are Legitimate: Validate data against official sources to reduce the risk of fraud.
  • Simplify Compliance Checks: Automate registry lookups to streamline your due diligence process.
Mapped to API: This information is found within the organization.details object, specifically in the registrationDetails array, which includes fields like registeredName, registrationNumber, and status.
What it is: This feature identifies directors, shareholders, and Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs) to uncover who truly controls a business. It allows you to build transparent ownership structures across jurisdictions.Key Benefits:
  • Reveal Hidden Ownership: Reduce exposure to shell companies and complex ownership structures.
  • Strengthen AML/CTF Compliance: Meet FATF requirements for identifying beneficial owners.
  • Gain Visibility for Due Diligence: Identify key individuals who may require further screening (e.g., PEP or sanctions checks). Mapped to API: Ownership data is structured within the organization object: officials: An array listing directors and other key roles. shareholders: An array detailing direct shareholders. ultimateBeneficialOwners: An array identifying the UBOs as determined by the configured ownership policy. linkedIndividuals: Contains the full entity details for individuals linked to the organization.
What it is: This feature screens businesses and their associated individuals against thousands of global watchlists, including Sanctions lists, Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), and Adverse Media from reputable global sources.Key Benefits:
  • Detect High-Risk Counterparties: Identify potential risks before entering into a business relationship.
  • Support Global Compliance: Ensure you meet screening requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
  • Automate Alerts: Configure ongoing monitoring to be alerted to any changes in a customer’s status.
Mapped to API: This is performed during workflow execution. Results are returned as Process-Result-Object instances with class: AML. The supplementaryData object for these results contains detailed match information, including pepData, sanctionData, and mediaData.
What it is: The Risk Assessment engine assigns a customisable risk score to each business entity. It analyses multiple data points in real-time, such as the business’s jurisdiction, industry, and ownership complexity, to produce a holistic risk profile based on your configured rules.Key Benefits:
  • Focus Resources on High-Risk Entities: Build workflows that align with your risk appetite.
  • Improve Decision-Making: Use structured, comparable scoring to automate and streamline your review process.
  • Auditable Compliance: Provides a clear, data-driven trail explaining why an entity was assigned a specific risk level.
Mapped to API: The workflowResult of an execution contains a riskAssessment object. This includes the overall riskScore and riskLevel (e.g., LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH), as well as a breakdown of the riskFactors that contributed to the score.
What it is: The Trust Analyzer extracts and analyses trust structures from trust deeds during KYB. It ingests a trust deed PDF, classifies the trust type, extracts the named parties (trustees, settlors, beneficiaries, appointors, protectors, SMSF members), normalises their roles, and returns structured, audit-ready output with references back to the source document.Key Benefits:
  • Faster Reviews: Convert unstructured deeds into structured data to cut manual review time and training effort.
  • Enable Automation: Consistent, structured output lets you automate more of a complex KYB process.
  • Complete Picture: Resolve complex entity types alongside standard KYB verification, AML, and KYC in one place.
Common Use Cases: Onboarding trusts, or businesses that hold assets through trusts, at scale without adding compliance headcount.Mapped to API: Runs as the GLB-Trust-Analysis workflow. Pass the trust deed’s documentId via executionVariables on execute, then retrieve the extracted trust structure and confirm it. See the Trust Analyzer guide.
Available through the API today. Portal screens for running, reviewing, and confirming a trust analysis are still being built.

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Coming Soon: The Future of Compliance

We are continuously innovating to address the next generation of compliance and fraud challenges. The following capabilities are in active development and will be available in upcoming releases.
What it is: This feature allows you to continuously track changes related to a business’s registration status, ownership structure, or other key risk indicators over time. You receive alerts when key details shift, ensuring continuous compliance throughout the business lifecycle.Key Benefits:
  • Maintain Up-to-Date Due Diligence: Reduce the risk of missing critical changes that impact compliance.
  • Support Regulatory Obligations: Fulfill requirements for ongoing monitoring without manual effort.
  • Proactive Risk Management: Be alerted when a supplier or customer changes ownership to a sanctioned or high-risk entity.
Common Use Cases: For businesses that want to stay up to date with changes to their customers, or who want to eliminate costly refresh processes and introduce a real-time, as needed, customer maintenance cycle.