Verify counterparties, screen beneficial owners, and conduct KYC across 190+ countries — in seconds.
Start Your First SearchRegulatory expectations for KYC and AML have expanded dramatically over the past decade. Beneficial ownership transparency requirements, FATF recommendations, the EU's Anti-Money Laundering directives, and FinCEN's Customer Due Diligence rule all demand that organizations know — and document — who they are actually doing business with. The challenge is that the most important information about a counterparty is often not where they say it is.
Global Search gives compliance teams, risk managers, and corporate investigators direct access to cross-referenced identity records across 190+ countries. A single query links identity documents, registered addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and employer affiliations from independent sources — enabling rapid verification that is both deeper and more independent than relying on self-reported counterparty information alone.
Verify that the identity document a customer presents matches registry records. Confirm addresses, date of birth, and associated identifiers against independent data sources — not just the documents provided by the applicant.
Cross-reference a subject against independent identity data to surface inconsistencies, aliases, or undisclosed addresses that may indicate structuring, layering, or placement activity. Complement sanctions list checks with substantive identity verification.
When a counterparty discloses beneficial owners, verify those individuals independently. Confirm their identities, check for undisclosed affiliations, and surface address or document records that contradict what has been declared.
Identify whether a subject or beneficial owner holds or has held public office by cross-referencing identity records against government employee registries, voter data, and official document databases from relevant jurisdictions.
Verify the identities and backgrounds of vendors, agents, distributors, and joint venture partners before contract execution — particularly for counterparties operating in higher-risk jurisdictions where public records are limited.
Research individuals named to leadership positions in target companies or joint ventures. Verify credentials, surface undisclosed affiliations, and identify any discrepancies between self-reported biography and independent records.
A single-source identity check — querying one database against what a subject self-reported — tells you only that the documents are internally consistent. It does not tell you whether the address is real, whether the name matches independent registry data, or whether there are aliases or undisclosed relationships that compliance should know about.
Global Search operates differently. When you run a query, the platform pulls records from multiple independent source databases simultaneously and cross-references them automatically. An identity document links to a registered address; that address links to other individuals registered there; those individuals link to phone numbers, employer affiliations, and additional documents. You see not just what the subject reported, but what independent data sources say about them — and where the two diverge.
That divergence is often where the compliance risk lives.
The most significant gaps in conventional due diligence tooling emerge in cross-border transactions. A beneficial owner registered in a jurisdiction with limited corporate transparency. A counterparty with undisclosed affiliations in a country where your usual vendors have no coverage. A foreign executive whose local-jurisdiction records are entirely absent from US-centric databases.
Global Search covers 190+ countries with meaningful record density in the regions where compliance risk is highest — Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. You can verify a Brazilian CPF against tax registry data, cross-reference a French national against IBAN and employment records, or check an Argentinian counterparty against national identity and vehicle registration databases — all from the same query interface.
Global Search supports direct search by identity document number — passport, national identity card, tax identification number, driver's license, and more — across dozens of document types in 190+ jurisdictions. If a counterparty provides a document number as part of KYC, you can verify whether independent records corroborate the name, date of birth, and address they have provided — or surface discrepancies that warrant further investigation.
Pre-transaction due diligence on target company leadership and beneficial owners is a standard requirement in cross-border M&A. Global Search accelerates that process significantly. Rather than commissioning country-specific reports from multiple regional vendors and waiting days for results, your team can run initial identity verification in-house within minutes, identify potential issues early, and focus external investigator time on the findings that actually warrant deeper work.
Compliance workflows that touch identity verification at scale — onboarding pipelines, periodic review programs, transaction monitoring alerts — benefit from automation. The Global Search REST API accepts queries by any identifier (name, document number, phone, email, address) and returns structured JSON, enabling integration with existing CDD platforms, case management systems, and screening workflows. Enterprise volume pricing and SLA-based agreements are available for API customers.
Global Search is EU-registered. A Data Processing Agreement is available for organizations operating under GDPR or similar frameworks that require formal agreements with data processors. Our GDPR page details our data handling practices, retention policies, and the basis on which we process personal data for legitimate professional purposes. Compliance teams requiring DPAs for vendor onboarding can request one through their account representative.
Standard access is priced at $0.30 per query with no monthly minimum. Enterprise customers with high query volumes or API integration requirements can access volume pricing through a direct agreement. Invoice-based billing is available for corporate accounts in place of per-transaction credit card payments.
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