Swan: reducing manual KYB while scaling across Europe
Swan cuts manual KYB work and speeds up onboarding across Europe by using Topograph to get official company data and documents in one place.
Alina GrebenkinaBlog
Insights for compliant businesses
KYB industry trends and how Topograph transforms client onboarding and verification for regulated companies.
Alina GrebenkinaHow Forest uses Topograph’s register data
Forest removed the slowest part of KYB: collecting fresh register evidence across countries.
Alina GrebenkinaWhat is a UBO?
A beneficial owner is the natural person who ultimately owns or controls a company. The 25% threshold, register access, declared vs. derived.
Andrea ValensiUBO register access in Europe: a country-by-country reality check
Three years after the CJEU invalidated public access and one year into 6AMLD, Europe's UBO registers range from fully open to sealed shut. We mapped access across 40+ jurisdictions.
Andrea ValensiESG Part 3 - Three regulations, one missing data layer
AML compliance, supply-chain due diligence, and ESG reporting all need traceable corporate governance data from official registers. Here's the convergence.
Andrea ValensiESG Part 2 - What verifiable Governance data looks like
Governance questions are actually register questions. Here's what traceable G-pillar data looks like across France, Germany, and the UK: field by field, register by register.
Andrea ValensiDoes your KYB provider have a data quality problem?
A KYB vendor's internal review found a very high failure rate on its UBO product. What compliance teams should ask their data vendors.
Emmanuel ScharffThe ESG proof gap: why governance data still runs on trust
The G pillar of ESG runs on self-declarations and cached databases. Four failure modes show why governance data needs source-level traceability from official registers.
Andrea ValensiDeclared UBO vs. Derived UBO: a distinction your provider probably doesn't make
There are two fundamentally different ways to determine who ultimately owns a company. Most providers don't tell you the one they use.
Hugo Dellinger