If your Know Your Business (KYB) workflow still depends on spreadsheets, fragmented registry searches, and chasing directors for documents over email, it quickly becomes a drag on commercial performance.
Every new geography introduces unfamiliar registries, formats and regulatory expectations. Every multi-layered ownership structure adds investigative work simply to identify Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs). And as onboarding times expand, sales cycles slow and risk teams become overstretched.
Modern KYB APIs were designed to solve precisely these issues. Instead of manually assembling company data, ownership hierarchies, identity checks and sanctions screening, a KYB API can orchestrate the entire business verification process in seconds.
A single API request can run:
One example of this approach is GBG Detected, GBG’s unified end-to-end KYB platform.
GBG Detected delivers global, automated business customer onboarding and monitoring so you can land new business customers in days, not weeks. It reduces end-to-end onboarding times by up to 60% by automating:
Instead of chasing incorporation documents and shareholder lists, your teams work from a single business intelligence platform that co-pilots risk and compliance through the same automated KYB journey.
“A lot of businesses are still doing KYB on spreadsheets or by searching registries manually. It’s very fragmented and time-consuming, and it creates a lot of operational pain.” – Harry Musson, KYB Specialist at GBG
Modern KYB isn’t just about validating a company name and registration number. GBG Detected lets you:
Where automated UBO information is unavailable, the platform supports manual entry and clearly flags this for your team, preserving a complete audit trail.
One of the biggest drains on KYB teams is low-value manual work: re-keying data, gathering missing documents and reviewing clearly low-risk cases.
GBG Detected cuts manual customer checks by an average of 67%, allowing more businesses to be onboarded first time and freeing compliance teams to focus on high-risk case management.
Rules-based decisioning handles straightforward applications, while higher-risk profiles are routed to additional verification steps with all relevant company, ownership, ID and screening data in one place.
“You get a smooth customer journey that doesn’t slow things down.This actually turns compliance into a growth enabler.” – Harry Musson, KYB Specialist at GBG
GBG Detected sits within GBG’s broader identity intelligence capabilities, giving you complete customer intelligence so you can connect safely with every genuine identity in the world.
GBG brings together three core components:
For KYB teams, this means business verification is never isolated. UBO discovery is immediately followed by automated KYC on those individuals, sanctions and PEPs screening, adverse media checks, and ongoing monitoring – all orchestrated through the same set of APIs and workflows.
Scaling KYB gets harder as you enter new markets. GBG underpins GBG Detected with:
GBG Detected also connects directly into leading CRM systems, including a fully native Salesforce app. Compliance and risk teams can “live” in GBG Detected case management, while sales and commercial teams see real-time updates on onboarding progress inside their usual tools.
The KYB APIs that truly eliminate manual chasing and fragmented workflows are those that:
GBG Detected brings all of this together as an end-to-end KYB API platform. It automates business onboarding and UBO discovery at scale, embeds KYC and fraud controls, and gives your teams a single, audit-ready view of every business relationship.
