Person Verification for KYC and AML Checks

Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti Money Laundering (AML) checks are mandatory in many industries and must be undertaken before you can do business with a new customer.

Customer identity verification is achieved by matching their name and address details against a number of data sources including the full Electoral Roll, totalling over 48 million people in the UK.

Person verification can also be used with your existing customer database or CRM system. Knowing that a customer is who they say they are is one of the key ways to prevent fraud within your business.

API method to use: person_verify

You may also want to use our age verification service which verifies if a UK person is age 18 or over. This is advisable if you are selling age restricted goods and now mandatory for corrosive products and offensive weapons with the introduction of the Offensive Weapons Act 2019.

How it works

The method returns a status of true if the person is found in our data, when the following data is supplied:

• Forename
• Surname
• UK Postcode
• UK address (full or partial)

The method also uses fuzzy matching so that close matches will also be returned, to account for slight spelling mistakes. You can control the level of fuzziness used through setting of parameters.

We also offer bulk person verification checks using the person_verify_bulk method.