CORE EXPERTISE

KYC & Due Diligence

INDUSTRY

Capital Market

Use Cases

ownership structure analysis

Clear Visibility Into Complex Ownership for Risk-Free Trades

ownership structure analysis

Capital market participants must evaluate ownership structures to detect hidden risks before executing trades or transactions. Mapping complex private company ownership reveals Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs) and potential hidden controllers. Visualising crossholdings, offshore links, and indirect control networks strengthens AML compliance and supports pre-trade risk mitigation. This process is essential for counterparty verification in investment banking, underwriting, and advisory mandates.

Workflows

UBO & Complex Ownership Analysis

Trace ownership to identify ultimate controllers, nominees, and offshore structures; deconstruct hierarchies to reveal crossholdings, circular shareholding, and hidden control paths.

Control & Influence Mapping

Mapping entity relationships, shared directors, and controllers to flag undisclosed interests.

Pre-Trade Due Diligence

Incorporating ownership analysis into counterparty checks before trade or investment.

Key personas

Compliance Officers

Financial Analysts

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Interconnection Map

Mapping connections among shareholders and directors across local and ASEAN borders across multiple degrees of association.

Investee Companies Map

A perfect complement to the Legal Beneficial Ownership map, Investee Companies maps reveal the ownership interest held by a person or company.

Legal Beneficial Ownership Map

Exhaustively identifies a subject’s known connections. That is, it identifies all persons and companies with direct and indirect interest in the subject.

KYB Services

Identification & Verification (Upcoming)

Search and verify information of persons and companies against official sources.

Screening

Screen persons, companies and their connected parties against Politically-Exposed-Persons (PEP) / Sanctions list.

Corporate History (Upcoming)

Historical analysis of company records such as past ownership, business activity changes and more.

Corporate Network (Upcoming)

Network pattern analysis of extended connection of corporate relationships to identify potential risks.

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Custom Reports 

Based on client requirements, our XPERT services team can deliver custom reports featuring specific data points — such as historical charges, ownership details and other relevant data — on a list of target companies identified through Local Registration Numbers e.g. UEN number.

Alert Monitoring 

Get email alerts on leadership changes by adding counter-parties to your list. Available for Singapore data only. 

One World

For users who are subscribed to two or more datasets such as Corporate Registry in Singapore, Malaysia, Capital Markets and S&P Global Market Intelligence, the OneWorld Feature is automatically unlocked to display connections across these datasets for a comprehensive analysis of searched entities.

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