Guides
Company Checks
How to check if a UK company is active or dissolved
A step-by-step guide to reading UK company status, identifiers, and filing history.
What is a dormant company?
A practical overview of dormant status, what it means, and why it still matters.
How to check who owns a UK company
How to trace legal ownership, control, and the people behind a UK company.
What is a confirmation statement?
What a confirmation statement shows and how to use it in review work.
How to read a company's filing history
How to read filing history for signs of change, delay, or missing information.
Free Company Reports for UK & Irish
What is in a free BizRisk company report for UK & Irish companies, where the data comes from, and how to run one.
Instant Company Risk Reports
How BizRisk generates company risk reports for UK & Irish companies quickly from multiple intelligence nodes.
Irish Company Check and CRO Company Search
How to run an Irish company check, search CRO records, and verify an Irish company before you rely on the record.
Ireland Company Risk Reports
How BizRisk builds Ireland company risk reports with CRO-backed company data, sanctions screening, adverse media, domain signals, and monitoring.
Due Diligence
What is due diligence?
A plain-English introduction to due diligence and when it should be used.
Vendor due diligence checklist
A practical checklist for reviewing suppliers before onboarding.
What is a third-party risk assessment?
How to evaluate third-party risk before a relationship starts.
What is enhanced due diligence?
A clearer view of enhanced due diligence and when deeper checks are needed.
What is customer due diligence?
What customer due diligence covers and how it fits into everyday review work.
Irish Company Due Diligence
A practical guide to Irish company due diligence and Irish business verification using CRO, sanctions, adverse media, domain checks, and monitoring.
Know Who You're Dealing With
A plain-English primer on why knowing who you are dealing with matters before a relationship starts.
Director Checks
How to check a company director's history
How to investigate a director using appointments, resignations, and linked entities.
How to read a director's appointment history
How appointment history reveals movement, overlap, and possible control patterns.
What is a disqualified director?
What disqualification means and why it can change the risk picture.
Red flags in a director's record
Signals in director history that usually justify a closer review.
Director Reports - What's Included
How BizRisk director reports work, what they cover, and which plan includes them.
Instant Director Risk Reports
How BizRisk generates a director risk report quickly and what it shows.
Domain Investigations
How to find out who owns a website
How to identify who owns or operates a website before you rely on it.
How to check if a website is legitimate
A practical guide to reviewing a domain that does not feel straightforward.
What is WHOIS?
What WHOIS records can reveal and why they are often only part of the picture.
What does a domain's age tell you?
How domain age can support a review without becoming the only signal.
Website due diligence checklist
A simple checklist for combining website content, registration data, and attribution clues.
Domain Reports - What's Included
How BizRisk domain reports work, what they cover, and which plan includes them.
Irish Domain Risk Reports
How Irish domain reports support website attribution, CRO company matching, sanctions screening, adverse media review, and cautious linked-entity assessment.
Instant Domain Risk Reports
How BizRisk generates a domain risk report quickly and what it checks.
Compliance
What is KYB (Know Your Business)?
A practical definition of KYB and how it fits alongside wider due diligence.
What is sanctions screening?
What sanctions screening checks and how to read the result sensibly.
What is PEP screening?
A clear explanation of PEP screening and why it often changes the risk review.
What is UBO verification?
How to understand UBO verification and why ownership evidence matters.
AML red flags to watch for
What AML checks cover and where they usually sit in the review process.
Ireland Company Monitoring
How to monitor Irish companies for CRO status, filing, name, address, and wider risk changes using BizRisk monitoring.
Red Flags
Signs a company is in financial distress
Signals that may suggest a company is under stress, inactive, or more complex than it looks.
Director history red flags
Director patterns that may justify a deeper look at the wider network.
Domain registration red flags
What to look for when a domain registration feels incomplete or inconsistent.
Ownership structure red flags
How opaque or circular ownership chains can change a due diligence view.
Glossary
What is a UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner)?
What ultimate beneficial ownership means and why it matters in due diligence.
What is a PSC (Person with Significant Control)?
What a PSC is and how it differs from other ownership terms.
What is a PEP (Politically Exposed Person)?
What PEP means and why it often changes the way a counterparty is reviewed.
What is AML (Anti-Money Laundering)?
What AML means and how it fits into the wider compliance workflow.
What are sanctions?
What sanctions mean in a due diligence context and how screening is used.
What does company dissolution mean?
What dissolution means and how it affects the way a record should be read.
What is company insolvency?
What insolvency signals usually mean and why they matter for review.
What is Beneficial Ownership?
A plain-English explanation of beneficial ownership and control.
Comparisons
KYB vs KYC: what's the difference?
When KYB and KYC overlap, and where they serve different purposes.
UBO vs PSC: what's the difference?
A side-by-side view of UBO and PSC terminology and how they are used.
PEP screening vs sanctions screening
How PEP screening differs from sanctions screening in a risk workflow.
Domain risk vs company risk
How domain risk and company risk overlap, and why both matter in review work.