Know Your Business Solutions
Verify business customers with confidence, reduce risk with precision.
Protect your business, reduce friction, and unlock growth with Know Your Business solutions that deliver trusted verification, faster onboarding, and continuous risk insight across the customer lifecycle.
Learn MoreProtect your business, reduce friction, and unlock growth with Know Your Business solutions that deliver trusted verification, faster onboarding, and continuous risk insight across the customer lifecycle.
Simplifying Business Verification from End to End
In a financial environment that evolves constantly, confidence in who you’re doing business with is essential. KYB is no longer just about meeting regulatory requirements, it’s foundational to protecting the business, preventing financial crime, and enabling sustainable growth. Without a strong, scalable KYB framework, organizations risk regulatory penalties, reputational harm, operational disruption, and poor customer experiences that directly impact revenue and trust.
What Our Solutions Do
Our Know Your Business (KYB) solutions have been built to enable modern compliance teams to support the full KYB lifecycle, helping you verify business customers, assess risk, and maintain compliance with confidence for small businesses to complex corporations.
Business Verification
Capture and validate key business information quickly and accurately to onboard customers with less friction.
Customer Due Diligence and Enhanced Due Diligence
Build a complete risk profile with trusted, structured data and complement with ownership data, enriched intelligence and advanced analytics for high-risk customers.
Screening
Screen against global sanctions, PEP, enforcement, and adverse media and continuously monitor updates.
What Our Solutions Do
Our Know Your Business (KYB) solutions have been built to enable modern compliance teams to support the full KYB lifecycle, helping you verify business customers, assess risk, and maintain compliance with confidence for small businesses to complex corporations.
Business Verification
Capture and validate key business information quickly and accurately to onboard customers with less friction.
Customer Due Diligence and Enhanced Due Diligence
Build a complete risk profile with trusted, structured data and complement with ownership data, enriched intelligence and advanced analytics for high-risk customers.
Screening
Screen against global sanctions, PEP, enforcement, and adverse media and continuously monitor updates.
Comprehensive KYB Coverage
Access a unified portfolio of data validation, business verification, screening, and monitoring solutions that enable faster onboarding, stronger compliance and better financial crime risk management.
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Strengthen Risk Decisions with Data-Driven Insight
Our solutions use extensive and continually updated databases to help ensure more accuracy across the customer lifecycle.
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- Reliable KYB and risk data for 32M businesses in the USA
- 27.5 million businesses and 16 million with associated human directors for the UK specifically.
- 180+ global sanctions lists
- 60+ risk categories including sanctions, PEP, SOE, adverse media & more 180+ global sanctions lists
- A worldwide network of 450 research experts and analysts
- Sanctions updates are delivered four times daily within 24 hours of publication at the source, and the database includes an extensive proprietary set of adverse media profiles compiled from thousands of reputable and reliable news media sources.
Frequently Asked Questions
LexisNexis Risk Solutions provides a range of end‑to‑end KYB solutions, including business identity verification, customer due diligence, sanctions/PEP/adverse media screening, enhanced due diligence for higher‑risk profiles, and ongoing/continuous monitoring across the customer lifecycle.
We provide KYB data and software solutions for companies of all sizes that can be scaled depending on their risk requirements.
We provide KYB data and software solutions for companies of all sizes that can be scaled depending on their risk requirements.
Deployment timelines vary based on your requirements, integration method, and solution scope, but our KYB solutions are designed for fast and flexible implementation. Many customers can get up and running quickly using pre‑configured workflows, APIs, or cloud‑based platforms, while more complex deployments can be phased to align with internal systems and compliance needs.
Our flexible delivery options including APIs, modular services, batch and platform integrations—allow organizations to deploy at their own pace, scale efficiently, and start realizing value early, with dedicated support throughout implementation.
Our flexible delivery options including APIs, modular services, batch and platform integrations—allow organizations to deploy at their own pace, scale efficiently, and start realizing value early, with dedicated support throughout implementation.
Know Your Customer (KYC) is the overarching compliance framework that requires organizations to identify, verify, and assess the risk of customers throughout the lifecycle of the relationship.
KYC applies to both individuals and businesses and is commonly delivered through two distinct but related processes:
- Know Your Consumer (KYoC) focuses on individuals (natural persons). It involves verifying identity, assessing personal risk, and screening against sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.
- Know Your Business (KYB) applies to legal entities. It involves validating a business’s legitimacy, understanding ownership and control structures, identifying beneficial owners, and assessing entity‑related risk.
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