Risk & Due Diligence
KYB across jurisdictions, buyer verification, supplier vetting, sanctions screening, UBO, fraud pattern libraries, country risk.
Deep dives
Buyer verification onboarding guide for cross-border exporters
End-to-end buyer verification: corporate identity, UBO, sanctions screening, credit underwriting, and how to compress a 14-day onboarding to 3 days without skipping diligence.
Country risk assessment for exporters: a practical framework
How exporters quantify country risk for cross-border B2B trade: agency ratings, payment defaults, FX repatriation, sanctions, and how to translate ratings into pricing and terms.
Travel Rule requirements for cross-border B2B payments
FATF Recommendation 16 in practice: what originator and beneficiary information must travel with international wires, who is liable, and how operators stay compliant.
The 12 fraud patterns every cross-border exporter must know
BEC payment redirection, identity spoofing, document forgery, fake-buyer marketplaces, sanctions-evasion shells, freight-forwarder scams: patterns, signals, and prevention.
KYB for cross-border buyers: a practical playbook
What a robust buyer KYB process looks like across the major exporter corridors, the data sources that matter, and where to draw the human-review line.
Sanctions screening for exporters: a practical guide
How to screen buyers, banks, and shipping counterparties against OFAC, EU consolidated, UK OFSI, and UN sanctions lists, including the false-positive triage that scales.
Trade credit risk assessment for B2B exporters
Assessing buyer payment risk before extending open-account terms: what credit bureaus give you, what they don't, and how to combine financial signals with behavioral data.
Ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) verification across jurisdictions
Where to find UBO data in each major exporter corridor, what 25% really means in different regimes, and how to handle layered ownership structures.