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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
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POST /v1/ubo-check
Sandbox · Production

  1. Your application sends

    • CIN / LLPIN*
    • Ownership threshold (%)

  2. Profiden 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

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 of 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

Beneficial Ownership (UBO) Check API use cases

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 the Beneficial Ownership (UBO) Check API works

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

01

Authenticate

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

02

Send the inputs

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

03

We verify at source

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

04

Act on the result

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

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Built for the DPDP Act 2023

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

Encryption in transit and at rest
Data processed in India
Per-request audit trail
Masked identifiers in responses

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

APIs that usually run alongside the Beneficial Ownership (UBO) Check API, on the same key.

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Directorship (DIN) Lookup

Business & KYB

Resolve a person's directorships and DIN status from the corporate registry.

Company (MCA) Lookup

Business & KYB

Incorporation status, company type, registered office and filing compliance from the corporate registry.

AML & Sanctions Screening

Risk & Compliance

Screen people and entities against global sanctions, PEP and watchlists.

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