KYB for Multi-Jurisdictional Entities - A Pandora's Box?
We're onboarding a new client, a holding company with subsidiaries spanning three different regulatory frameworks across APAC. Each jurisdiction has its own flavor of 'enhanced due diligence' and ownership disclosure requirements. It's like a hydra, you cut off one head of paperwork and two more spring up. Is anyone else finding that the drive for transparency, while necessary, is creating a near-insurmountable KYB hurdle for genuinely complex, but legitimate, corporate structures? The amount of back-and-forth for UBO identification alone is enough to make a seasoned compliance officer consider early retirement. Tips, commiserations, or preferred vendors for untangling these Gordian knots welcome.
Definitely not alone on this. We've seen similar issues, especially with the shifting landscape in APAC. Have you tried leveraging any RegTech solutions to help streamline the documentation process, or is it still mostly manual for you?