Company KYB Form
A know your business form for private limited companies. It covers the registered details, directors, beneficial owners, business activity, expected transactions, sanctions and the documents to provide.
A short KYB form for companies listed on a regulated market. Ownership is already public, so it asks for the market and ticker instead of a full beneficial ownership breakdown.
Use it for companies whose shares trade on a regulated market with disclosure rules.
10 of 10 core requirements of EU AMLR.
Every question can be removed, reworded, reordered or made optional in the editor. You can add your own questions and fields too.
| Question | Field type | Section | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registered legal name * | Text | Organisation details | Art 22(1)(b)(i) |
| Legal form * | Single choice | Organisation details | Art 22(1)(b)(i) |
| Registration number and name of the register * | Text | Organisation details | Art 22(1)(b)(iii) |
| Country of incorporation or registration * | Country | Organisation details | Art 22(1)(b)(ii) |
| Registered office address * | Long text | Organisation details | Art 22(1)(b)(ii) |
| Principal place of business, if different | Long text | Organisation details | Art 22(1)(b)(ii) |
| Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), if you have one | Text | Organisation details | Art 22(1)(b)(iii) |
| Contact email * | Organisation details | Good practice | |
| Contact phone | Phone | Organisation details | Good practice |
| Directors, partners or board members: full names * | Long text | Management and authority | Art 22(1)(b)(iii) |
| Person completing this form for the customer: full name, role and date of birth * | Long text | Management and authority | Art 20(1)(i) |
| Proof of authority (power of attorney or board resolution), if acting for someone else | File upload | Management and authority | Art 20(1)(i) |
| Regulated market where your shares are listed, and ticker symbol * | Text | Beneficial owners | Good practice |
| Describe the main business activities * | Long text | Occupation and business | Art 20(1)(e), 25(e) |
| Why do you want to open this relationship, and what will you use it for? * | Long text | Purpose and expected activity | Art 20(1)(c), 25(a) |
| Will you carry out transactions on behalf of, or for the benefit of, anyone else? * | Single choice | Purpose and expected activity | Art 20(1)(h) |
| Do you, or does any beneficial owner, director or authorised signatory, hold a prominent public function now or in the last 12 months? * | Single choice | Politically exposed persons | Art 20(1)(g), 42, 45 |
| Is any of them a family member or known close associate of such a person? * | Single choice | Politically exposed persons | Art 46 |
| Are you, or is any beneficial owner, director or related company, named on a sanctions list (UN, EU, UK or US)? * | Single choice | Sanctions and other declarations | Art 20(1)(d) |
| Tax identification number | Text | Tax residency | Art 22(1)(a)(iv), (b)(iii) |
| Certificate of incorporation or recent extract from the official register * | File upload | Documents to provide | Art 22(6) |
| I confirm the information in this form is true and complete, and I will tell you promptly if it changes. * | Checkbox | Declaration and signature | Art 26 |
| I understand my information will be used to meet anti-money laundering obligations and kept for at least 5 years after the relationship ends. * | Checkbox | Declaration and signature | Art 77 |
| Name, position and signature * | Text | Declaration and signature | Good practice |
| Date * | Date | Declaration and signature | Good practice |
| Screening: sanctions, PEP and adverse media for the customer, beneficial owners and directors (date and result) * | Long text | For internal use | Art 20(1)(d), (g) |
| Customer risk rating and reason * | Single choice | For internal use | Good practice |
| Next review date * | Date | For internal use | Art 26(2) |
| Reviewed by (name and date) * | Text | For internal use | Good practice |
Usually not in full, because a regulated market already requires ownership disclosure. You still record the market and large shareholders.
Regulated markets with disclosure requirements equal to EU standards.
A know your business form for private limited companies. It covers the registered details, directors, beneficial owners, business activity, expected transactions, sanctions and the documents to provide.
An enhanced KYB form for companies with layered, offshore or nominee ownership. It asks for an ownership chart up to the beneficial owners and the reason the structure is set up this way.
A KYB form for general partnerships, limited partnerships and LLPs. It identifies the partners, the people who control the partnership and the partnership agreement.
With complead KYC Forms your customers fill in the form online, under your logo. Answers land on the customer record and every name is screened automatically.
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