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Beneficial Ownership (UBO) Check API

Resolve the shareholding and directorship chain behind a CIN to the natural persons who hold significant control, with their percentages and roles, for AML and KYB obligations.

Response
Real-time
Inputs
1 required · 1 optional
Consent
Not required
Billing
Per successful call
POST /v1/ubo-check
Sandbox · Production
  1. Your application sends

    • CIN / LLPIN*
    • Ownership threshold (%)
  2. emver API

    Validates the request, queries the source, normalises the answer and logs the call. Billed only on success.

  3. Verified with

    Authoritative source

  4. You receive

    • Beneficial owners (name, din, percentage, path)
    • Ownership chain
    • Data as of
ubo-check Full reference
Overview

What the Beneficial Ownership (UBO) Check API does

The API walks the registered shareholding and significant-beneficial-owner filings up the chain and returns the individuals identified as beneficial owners together with the path by which they qualify.

Benefits

Why teams use the Beneficial Ownership (UBO) Check API

Trace who ultimately owns and controls a company.

See through holding structures

Layers of entities resolved to people.

AML-ready

Feed the owners straight into AML & Sanctions Screening.

Use cases

Where it's called

Where the Beneficial Ownership (UBO) Check API is typically called, and what it settles there.

Corporate account opening

Mandatory UBO identification for KYB.

Vendor and partner due diligence

Know who you are really contracting with.

How it works

Four steps, one response envelope

Request and response details, environments and a ready-to-import collection are in the developer console.

  1. 01

    Authenticate

    Call with your organisation API key. Sandbox and production use the same contract.

  2. 02

    Send the inputs

    CIN / LLPIN as a JSON body. Optional fields sharpen the match.

  3. 03

    We verify at source

    emver queries the authoritative record, normalises the answer and logs the request.

  4. 04

    Act on the result

    A verification status plus the fields listed above, in the same response envelope as every other API.

Privacy and security built in

Consent recorded · Payloads not retained beyond your retention window · Every request traceable

FAQ

Beneficial Ownership (UBO) Check API: frequently asked questions

What teams ask before adding the Beneficial Ownership (UBO) Check API to their integration.

Ten percent, the statutory significant-beneficial-owner threshold. Override it per request.

Related

APIs that run alongside it

Usually called with the Beneficial Ownership (UBO) Check API, on the same key.

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