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Reliable Data to Power Your KYC Services

Integrate trusted corporate registry and capital markets data from Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, and Thailand into your onboarding and compliance workflows, strengthening KYC (know your customer) and AML (anti-money laundering) processes with reliable official-source intelligence.

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Common challenges

Data Cleanup Takes Too Long

The corporate data submitted during onboarding is often unverified or inconsistent with official records. For bank compliance teams, manually reconciling and validating this information creates operational bottlenecks that become increasingly difficult to scale across large corporate onboarding volumes.

Getting Your Onboarding Safe & Efficient is Hard

Delivering a fast, smooth corporate client onboarding experience matters as much as putting robust AML/CTF controls in place. For financial institutions, achieving both at once often requires balancing regulatory obligations, onboarding efficiency, and risk visibility across multiple systems and teams.

No Real-Time Monitoring

Monitoring corporate clients in real time is central to risk mitigation, and in many cases expected by regulators such as MAS. Yet many legacy onboarding and compliance systems remain disconnected from the live registry and risk intelligence sources needed to support continuous monitoring.

Key features of KYC software

Sourcing high-quality KYC information is challenging, yet it has become essential for banks and financial institutions managing risk. That makes it vital to choose KYC software that supports your compliance teams in the following ways:

Supercharge Your KYC Process with Us

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Access High-Quality KYC Data for Accurate Profiling

Handshakes draws on official corporate registry sources and capital markets data across Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, and Thailand. This powers accurate corporate entity profiling and beneficial ownership mapping, so financial institutions can onboard ASEAN corporate clients with confidence.

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Risk Classification & Sanctions Screening

Our KYC software automates the screening of entities and individuals against global sanctions lists, PEP databases, and adverse media sources. Combined with beneficial ownership verification and related-party link detection, it surfaces reputational risks at every level, including those that never appear on official lists or datasets.

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Seamless KYC Data Management & Monitoring

Set up a business rules engine and risk scorecard within your bank compliance workflows so new accounts open quickly and consistently. Our comprehensive KYC software integrates data management and monitoring features while supporting ongoing monitoring obligations across regulated financial institution workflows.

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Powerful Risk Analysis with Proprietary Data Insights

Supercharge risk analysis with proprietary analytics tools that transform complex shareholding structures into instant, actionable insights, allowing compliance teams to unwrap layered shareholding structures and identify ultimate beneficial owners with greater speed and clarity.

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User-Friendly KYC Data Service Provider for Effortless Compliance

Our intuitive KYC software simplifies complex data interactions, so compliance teams at financial institutions adapt quickly and manage KYC processes efficiently. Even intricate compliance tasks stay easy to navigate, keeping your team focused on strategic oversight rather than manual data work.

Connect to Trusted KYC Data Sources with Handshakes

Our KYC Solution is Suitable for

Banking and Finance
Legal
Real Estate

Legal & Professional Service
Insurance
Manufacturing and Trade

Leverage Handshakes’ KYC Software and Registry Data for Your Compliance Needs

As data experts, Handshakes can help our clients unlock their data’s potential.

Frequently asked questions

Handshakes distinguishes ourselves from the rest through our proprietary mapping analytics, real-time access to official corporate registry data across multiple Asian markets, and the ability to customise solutions to meet unique client needs. This enables financial institutions and regulated entities to strengthen corporate onboarding, compliance monitoring, and risk assessment workflows with greater confidence.

Our KYC software primarily verifies information found in official corporate registry documents, capital market filings, and related regulatory records. This helps to ensure the accuracy of company structures, ownership, and key personnel.

As a KYC software vendor, our core focus is on corporate data and entity connections. However, our software can seamlessly integrate with third-party eIDV solutions to provide additional layers of personal identity document verification for your clients.

Our KYC software for banks enables rapid, accurate client onboarding, real-time risk monitoring, and efficient compliance with stringent regulations. Our priority is to provide comprehensive data insights into corporate entities and their networks that are crucial for mitigating financial crime risks.

Handshakes is a Singapore-based KYC platform with direct coverage of official corporate registries across five Asian markets: Singapore (ACRA), Malaysia (SSM and Bursa Malaysia), Vietnam, China and Thailand. This gives financial institutions a single source of ASEAN corporate registry data to power client onboarding, screening and ongoing monitoring.

Yes. As a KYC onboarding provider, Handshakes delivers data through standard and custom APIs, so you can integrate official registry data directly into your existing platform, business rules engine and compliance workflows. Our team can also tailor screening logic, risk rules, and data outputs to align with your institution’s onboarding, compliance, and monitoring requirements.

We hope you have found the FAQ useful. If your questions are not addressed here, please do not hesitate to reach us at enquiries@handshakes.com.sg and our consultants will be glad to assist you further.