Risk rarely sits on the front company

Screening a single name tells you about that name. But money-laundering risk in a corporate client rarely sits on the front company — it sits somewhere in the ownership and control structure behind it.

A FIRMCY investigation follows that structure: it pulls the official Registrar of Companies file into a structured record, builds the ownership and control network outward — parent companies, subsidiaries, shared officers — traces the chain to the ultimate beneficial owners, and screens every party in it against sanctions, PEP and adverse-media sources. The result is a synthesised judgment over the whole structure — which entity or person carries the risk, and how control traces to the root — with the reasoning shown, not a black box, and the underlying records retained as evidence.

It is the difference between "we screened the company" and "we understood who is behind it and checked them all."

When enhanced due diligence calls for more than a name check: firm.cy/aml-investigations

Not legal advice. FIRMCY supports, and does not replace, your compliance judgement.

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