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Global KYB - Asia Pacific

Overview and Purpose

Overview:

The Global KYB API, known as "Global Know Your Business," is a robust and comprehensive solution designed to facilitate Know Your Business (KYB) verifications on organizations worldwide. It offers a rich set of data that enables businesses and organizations to assess and verify critical information about other companies. The API provides detailed insights into a company's background, ownership, financial status, and more, making it an essential tool for due diligence, risk mitigation, and compliance.

Purpose:

The primary purpose of the Global KYB API is to empower businesses with accurate and up-to-date information about their business counterparts. Here are the key objectives and usecases:

  1. Business Verification: The API retrieves crucial details such as company registration, legal status, contact information, and industry specifics. This facilitates the verification of business entities, ensuring that they are legitimate and compliant with local regulations.
  2. Risk Assessment: Global KYB assists in evaluating the financial health and stability of a company by providing information on registered capital, shareholders, and subsidiaries. This aids in risk assessment and decision-making processes for partnerships, investments, and trade relationships.
  3. Due Diligence: The API supports due diligence efforts by offering insights into a company's history, ownership, and associated individuals. It enables organizations to make informed choices regarding potential business engagements.
  4. Compliance: Global KYB helps businesses adhere to regulatory requirements and industry standards by providing data on business types, licenses, and regulatory authorities. This ensures that companies operate within the bounds of applicable laws.
  5. Global Reach: With coverage spanning various countries and regions, the API offers an extensive dataset, facilitating KYB checks on entities operating worldwide.

By integrating the Global KYB API, businesses can enhance their risk management strategies, improve decision-making processes, and ensure compliance with local and international regulations. This API serves as a valuable asset for organizations seeking to establish secure and trustworthy business relationships on a global scale.

Supported Countries

Country

Country Code

Supported Company Numbers

Coverage

Singapore

SG

Unique Entity Number

95 %

China

CN

Unified Social Credit Code

100 %

Hong Kong

HK

Company Registration Number

100 %

Taiwan

TW

Unified Business number

100 %

Japan

JP

National Tax Agency Company Number

95 %

India

IN

Corporate Identification Number

95 %

New Zealand

NZ

Newzealand Business Number

95 %

Vietnam

VN

Enterprise Code Number

95 %

Thailand

TH

Corporate Registration Number

95 %

Australia

AU

Australian Business Number

95 %

API Details

Sample cURL

pre-production


Request Body

pre-production


Request Body Parameters

Request Parameter

Data Type

Manadory/Optional

Description

companyName

String

Optional

It is Legal name of company. Can be inputed in Local language as well as in English

companyNumber

String

Mandatory (Optional in some cases)

Company's registration number, can be varied from country to country

agency

String

Mandatory (Applicable for Taiwan only)

This field is mandatory for Taiwan only (Can be left blank)

codeField

String

Mandatory (Applicable for Australia only)

Mandatory for australia only(Can not be left blank)

countryCode

String

Mandatory

User needs to input Alpha - 2 Country code in the request body

language

String

Mandatory

Language can be EN (English) or OG (Native Language per country Response language will depend on language field of input

template

String

Mandatory

For LITE request, template will be KYBLite

For Standard requests, template will be KYBStandard

fetchUBO

Boolean

Mandatory

If true then will recieve UBO details on mentioned notifyURL

uboDetails

Object

Optional



threshold

Number

Optional

This field represents minimum % of shares one must own to be classified as UBO

Cane be 10, 15 or 25

layers

String

Optional

This will represnt how many layers of UBO details one wants to retrive

realtimeFlag

Boolean

Optional

If true then API will retrive realtime data from authorized data source,

Else data will be served from cache of the authorized source

cacheperiod

Number

Optional

The user is required to specify the number of days for which the cache will be searched to retrieve data.

The minimum value will be 30 and maximum is 365 days

notifyURL

String

Mandatory (If Fetch UBO is True)

The callback url on which the UBO details will be sent

Mandatory paramters per country

This table mentions which parameter except country code, template, language, fetchUbo are mandatory and optional for each country, as some countries need company number whereas some countries either of company name or number

Country

Mandatory Parameters

Singapore

Company Number

China

Either Company name or Company Number

Taiwan

Either Company name or Company Number + Agency Code

Hongkong

Either Company name or Company Number

Japan

Either Company name or Company Number

India

Company Number (Mandatory for MSME, Optional for MCA)

New Zealand

Company Name & Company Number

Australia

Company Number & Code Field

Thailand

Either Company name or Company Number

Vietnam

Either Company name or Company Number



Response Body (Global KYB - LITE)

JSON


Response Body Parameters (Global KYB - LITE)

Response Parameter

Description

crnNumber

This field Provides company number. The name of this field can change according to country e.g. usccNumber for China, abnNumber for Australia

companyName

This field provides company name in English

ogName

This field provides company name in Native Language

businessStatus

This field provides current status of business

establishDate

This field returns date of establishment of a particular business

companyAddress

This field returns registered address for a particular business

Response Body (Global KYB - Standard/Basic)

JSON


Error Code Response & Mapping

400(Bad Request)
409(Upstream Down)
404(Data not found)


Field

Type

Description

name

string

Text displayed on the screen explaining error type.

reason

string

Reason for the error.

status

message

type

statusCode

number

string

string

number

HTTP status code.

Error message indicating an upstream error.

Error type.

Status code representing the error scenario.



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