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# UBO Visual Ownership Tree

> Show individual percentage ownership of investment represented in a tree structure

## Introduction

The term UBO stands for Ultimate Beneficial Owner, which refers to the natural person who ultimately owns or controls a legal entity. Banks and corporations are required by law to identify and verify the UBOs of their customers and partners, as part of their Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing obligations. This helps to prevent financial crimes and ensure transparency in the business sector.

To identify the UBO, we:

* Acquire the organizations credentials
* Research ownership chain
* Single out the ultimate beneficial owner

The objective of the Visual Ownership Tree is to represent the actual share owners in a diagrammatic tree format. We dig deep into the share holding structure to know the individual who actually owns what percentage of Investment. The same information is represented in a PDF as tree structure in the generated report.

Additionally, you can view the directors of the companies that are represented in the Visual Tree Diagram of UBO report.

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  When there are corporate shareholders jointly holding shares, the visual tree will not traverse any further. We recommend further investigation in other areas of the report.
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## Viewing the UBO Visual Tree

You can view the UBO Visual Tree from the generated UBO Report.

To view the last UBO report generated:

1. Select the **Monitoring** tab from the Dashboard.
2. From the **Overview** page, go to the **Completed Checks** section.
3. Select the **View Report** button to open the generated PDF Ultimate Beneficial Owner Report.
4. In the report, visit the **Relationship diagram** section.

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UBO Visual Tree for an organisation including directors of the companies represented.

The relationship diagram adds a **JH** flag or marker on the entity for a Joint Holding.

The relationship diagram also marks the directors and alternate directors using **D** and **AD** markers respectively (only on the top level). A director isn’t always an owner of a business. For these type of directors, they’re depicted with gray connection lines.

## Legend

To better understand the UBO Visual tree, you can refer to the legend found at the bottom of the relationship diagram page.

You can review the legend information below:

| Element           | Description                                    |
| ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
| Green background  | Ultimate Beneficial Owner with ≥ 25%           |
| Red background    | Requires further investigation                 |
| **╼╼** Green line | Connection to beneficially held (BH) ownership |
| **╼╼** Red line   | Requires further investigation                 |
