What the EU anti-money-laundering package changes for checking business customers, the vocabulary it uses, and what each company register Covenance reads actually publishes. Every legal statement cites the article it comes from.
Long-form pages on the rules that apply to onboarding a business customer in the EU.
The AMLR applies from 10 July 2027 and AMLD6 must be transposed by the same date. What changes for beneficial owners, due diligence, registers and supervision, with a dated timeline and a citation for every obligation.
21 terms, each defined in a sentence before any context, and each one that comes from law citing the article that defines it.
Covenance reads three official company registers directly. One page each on what the register publishes, what is restricted, what Covenance reads from it and where it stops, plus one page on how coverage works everywhere else.
Companies House publishes the UK company register, including the register of people with significant control. Covenance reads it directly through the official API.
CVR is the Danish central business register. It publishes company data and legal owners, and holds beneficial owners under restricted access. Covenance reads it directly through the Danish Business Authority's system-to-system service.
INPI keeps the French Registre national des entreprises and the Registre des bénéficiaires effectifs. Covenance reads both directly, and the second under a granted access habilitation.
What a direct register connection means, how company data and ownership evidence work in countries without one, and five questions worth asking any KYB provider.
They state law and describe registers, so they carry the things that make a claim checkable.
For what the product does with all of this, see Onboarding and KYB.