Practical writing on business-customer onboarding, KYB, sanctions and PEP screening — for the compliance teams at EU neobanks and EMIs.
The nine signals that separate a real trading company from a shell when you onboard a business customer — and how to catch them before the account opens.
Know Your Business is not just Know Your Customer with a company attached. Where the two overlap, where KYB is genuinely harder, and what an EU onboarding team needs in place.
Politically exposed person screening is a regulatory must — but commercial feeds price out small EMIs. Here is how to run credible PEP and sanctions screening on OpenSanctions data.