The Business Verification Challenge: Why Live Registry Data Matters
Regulated entities face a critical challenge when onboarding businesses: anti-money laundering legislation requires the use of "reliable and independent" data for business verification.
Traditionally, compliance teams have had to choose between two imperfect options:
Commercial data providers offer extensive information, but often lack guarantees about data freshness or provenance, creating potential compliance risks when regulators scrutinize verification processes.
Corporate registries provide official records as the authoritative source, but accessing them involves navigating disparate systems across different countries, often requiring manual extraction from PDF documents, a time-consuming process that slows onboarding and frustrates both compliance teams and customers.
Live Corporate Registry Data: The Automated Business Verification Solution
Kyckr bridges this gap by providing direct, live connections to corporate registries worldwide, delivering official business data in a normalized, structured format that integrates seamlessly with Dotfile's comprehensive platform.
How Real-Time KYB Verification Works
Through this partnership, Dotfile customers can:
- Access verified data instantly from official corporate registries, with time and date stamps for regulatory compliance and audit trails
- Automate manual processes that previously required analysts to manually extract information from registry documents, significantly reducing verification time
- Verify beneficial ownership structures across borders using Kyckr's UBO verification service, which automatically researches ownership hierarchies using live registry data
- Trust their data layer with information sourced exclusively from authoritative government registers, meeting the regulatory requirement for "reliable and independent" data sources
Key Benefits for Compliance Teams
Speed: Kyckr retrieves official company documents in 15 minutes or less, dramatically reducing onboarding friction and customer drop-off rates.
Accuracy: Live registry connections ensure you're always working with the most current information, not stale database records that may be months or years out of date.
Compliance: Time-stamped, auditable data from official sources provides the documentation regulators expect and protects your organization during audits.
Global Coverage: Access to 3000+ document types across 100+ countries, including hard-to-reach jurisdictions, ensures comprehensive verification capabilities.
AI-Ready Compliance Infrastructure for 2026 and Beyond
As the compliance industry embraces AI and agentic workflows, the quality of underlying data becomes even more critical. With more and more countries now requiring Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) verification and the global KYB market expected to reach $440 million by 2033, organizations need infrastructure that can scale with regulatory demands.
Dotfile's intelligent orchestration platform leverages AI agents that autonomously manage the entire verification workflow, from data collection to risk assessment to decision-making. By integrating Kyckr's live registry data, Dotfile's AI agents can make confident, auditable compliance decisions backed by official, time-stamped information that regulators trust. This combination of intelligent automation and authoritative data sources enables organizations to achieve both speed and accuracy, reducing onboarding times while maintaining the highest compliance standards.
"In an AI-first world, having accurate, independent, and reliable data becomes more important than ever," notes Steve Lamb, CEO of Kyckr. "The primary consumer of our data in five years might be an AI agent, which makes the provenance and traceability of that data incredibly important for model validation and regulatory acceptance."
Enhanced Coverage and Continuous Innovation
Kyckr continues to expand its global registry network, with particular focus on emerging financial centers in the Middle East and Africa. The company is also investing heavily in AI-powered extraction technology to unlock ownership data buried within PDF documents across thousands of document types and jurisdictions.
About Kyckr
Kyckr provides live corporate registry data through direct connections to government registers worldwide, helping regulated entities meet their business verification obligations with official, time-stamped data in a normalized, easy-to-use format. Trusted by over 35 KYB software platforms and 80 regulated businesses globally, Kyckr specializes in delivering registry-grade data at scale.
About Dotfile
Dotfile is a comprehensive KYB orchestration platform that helps compliance teams automate and streamline their customer onboarding and monitoring workflows. By combining intelligent automation with best-in-class data providers like Kyckr, Dotfile enables organizations to reduce onboarding time, improve accuracy, and maintain continuous compliance.
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