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Onboarding & KYC

Whether you're a lawyer, a tax advisor, a fund or simply a company – our digital KY-X processes for legal entities and natural persons boost your productivity, take the load off your specialists and fulfill all compliance obligations in an audit-proof way with minimal effort.

KYC/KYI/KYS/KYE data collection

Whether you want to collect data from clients, investors, dealers, legal entities or natural persons, there's a matching KYC process for you.

Customizable no-code workflows

Missing questions, or being asked for data that's irrelevant to you? No problem – choose from our industry-specific processes and tailor the process to your company as you like.

Available processes

  • Client KYC onboarding
  • Investor KYC onboarding
  • Tax KYC onboarding
  • Risk assessment
  • Due diligence obligations
  • Identity verification
  • Digital and wet-ink signatures
  • Health check
  • and more

Prefilled data

Thanks to our integration of public data sources, around 80% of the data is validated and prefilled in advance, as if by magic.

Automatic loading of documents from the commercial register

Not only is validated data transferred automatically – we also automatically load the latest commercial register extracts, shareholder lists and other documents from the commercial register and make them available in your KY-X process.

Automatic reading of ID documents

Using the latest technologies, data from international identity documents such as passports or ID cards is read fully automatically and simply presented to you for review.

Conflict check

With our ready-made conflict check, you can quickly and easily analyze whether there is a potential conflict with any of the client's related contacts or companies.

KYC reports

As soon as the KYX process has been successfully completed, a corresponding report is generated automatically. This gives you an audit-proof audit trail over a long period of time.

Real-time collaboration incl. chat

A due diligence process can only be as efficient as possible with real-time collaboration. That's why we offer smart collaboration features across the entire workspace, such as group chats, discussions, comments and reminders.

Shared data room with consents, terms, contracts and more

The digital matter file works like a shared data room in which all documents, events, contacts, etc. are stored and continuously updated. Decide exactly what your team members and clients can and cannot see.

Compliance & risk

Use the ready-made risk assessment to classify the risk of clients, customers, dealers, investors or buyers across various risk categories, and screen your customers against AML data sources at any time. We derive the due diligence obligations and required review cycles for you, fully automatically. With automatically generated risk reports, you meet your evidence and documentation obligations with minimal effort.

Risk assessment

BetterCo combines data, technology and human expertise in a single platform for efficient onboarding and compliance management. With just a few clicks, you classify the risk of clients, customers, dealers, investors and buyers across various risk categories.

Our system automatically derives the due diligence obligations and required review cycles for you.

AML screening

With our automated AML screening and ongoing monitoring solutions, you can screen your clients / customers for politically exposed persons (PEP), sanctions lists and adverse media. As soon as our AML engine finds a match, you're notified to review it.

Politically exposed persons (PEP), sanctions lists, adverse media

Stay compliant and fight financial crime by screening users against global PEP watchlists and sanctions lists. Our lists in BetterCo are updated in real time, so you always stay on track when there are updates or new entries. Scan millions of sources for adverse articles about your clients and customers with a single click. Our AI-powered AML integration identifies them in seconds.

Due diligence & review cycles

Based on your risk assessments, we derive the due diligence obligations for you, fully automatically.

Risk report

Once you've completed the risk assessment for your client / customer, a risk report is created fully automatically and stored in the digital matter file. That way, you're always ready to provide information and have all relevant data one click away.

Risk dashboard

In your personal risk dashboard, you can analyze the risk position for companies or individual professionals/partners at any time by criteria such as origin, organizational structure, legal form and risk structure – and audit-proof reports mean you're always ready to provide information.

Identification & signatures

With our plug & play suite, you can verify the identity of your clients / customers quickly, easily and in 100% GwG compliance, and start signing contracts digitally. Faster, easier and worry-free.

Identity verification

We offer your customers GwG-compliant online identification via video chat. In just a few minutes, we guide your customers through the identification. All your customer needs is a computer, tablet or smartphone with internet access and a camera, plus a valid ID document. Our trained staff verify your customers securely, in compliance with the law and in an innovative way.

Automatic reading of ID documents

Using the latest technologies, data from international identity documents such as passports or ID cards is read fully automatically and simply presented to you for review.

Wet-ink and digital signatures

With BetterCo, you speed up your legally binding (contract) signing processes and make your document management system as efficient as possible!

Simply choose from our ready-made signature processes: wet-ink signature, eSigning via scan, SES, AES or QES.

Contracts, powers of attorney & resolutions

Browse our huge library of templates for fee agreements, engagement agreements, powers of attorney, resolutions and much more – all reflecting the latest case law.

Create your own templates in just a few clicks and sign conveniently and digitally with our DocuSign integration.

Consents

We live in a time when we constantly have to obtain consent from our clients / customers. Even the smallest consent usually causes administrative overload and sheer paper chaos. With BetterCo, it's finally simple, hassle-free and digital! Whether you need consent to process master data, agreement to your privacy policy or consent to representation before BaFin or the commercial register – thanks to your BetterCo workspace and the ready-made processes, it's done quickly and easily. Your client / customer is notified by email in real time, and the granted consent lands directly in the right place in your system.

Ongoing monitoring

Political and regulatory conditions change very quickly. BetterCo monitors all PEP watchlists, sanctions lists and adverse media in real time and notifies you as soon as a match is found for your existing or new clients / customers. Combined with our event ticker, which informs you about relevant events such as changes at shareholder level, you stay up to date and ready to provide information throughout the entire customer lifecycle.

Event timeline

Throughout a company's lifecycle, hundreds of events occur that matter to you as a GwG-regulated business for meeting your due diligence obligations – such as the appointment of new managing directors, funding rounds, address changes and so on.

Event ticker

From now on, you'll never miss a critical event again – from changes in the shareholder structure and key events in contract management to expiring resolution deadlines or expired ID documents. Our event ticker keeps you informed in real time.

Contacts & relations

On average, a company has 20+ relevant relationships (CEO, legal representatives, beneficial owners, investors and more) that must be checked to meet GwG requirements.

During customer due diligence, all these relevant contacts of your client / customer are automatically synchronized from public data sources with 60+ relationship types, checked and stored in your system. You can add as many contacts as you like and categorize them with 100+ custom relationship types.

Org charts & cap tables

Graphical org charts & cap tables give you the best overview of all relevant contacts and shareholders of a company. All relevant changes are synchronized and updated in real time.

Smart linking of events, contacts and documents

We don't just deliver data, events, contacts and documents in real time – we link them together, so you no longer have to switch back and forth between document and data chaos to gather all the information on a particular event, document or contact.

AML alerts

Our automated AML engine continuously screens your client's contacts and companies for entries on PEP, sanctions or adverse media lists and notifies you of new matches.

Re-KYC

With our ongoing monitoring and automatically derived due diligence obligations, you're notified in good time about upcoming re-KYCs.

Legally compliant templates for resolutions, contracts and more

Whether you want to pass resolutions or draft contracts, our library of 100+ legally compliant templates offers the right lawyer-reviewed document for almost any use case imaginable. Put your document management on autopilot and focus on what matters: making decisions and passing resolutions – simply and digitally. Our event ticker reminds everyone involved of upcoming deadlines in good time.

Smart collaboration

With BetterCo, internal and external collaboration with colleagues, customers, clients, buyers, dealers or investors is finally simple, efficient & 100% digital. Always keep track of all tasks, data, documents, contacts & events for each of your clients / customers.

Master data, beneficial owners & contacts

In your digital matter file, you manage and organize all relevant data and documents. With just a few clicks, you have everything at hand, such as company and address data, all beneficial owners, legal representatives, all relevant documents, AML updates and more.

All this data is collected quickly and easily thanks to our digital customer due diligence solution and documented in an audit-proof way.

No-code workflows & tasks

Our library includes countless ready-made, industry-specific processes: from KYC/KYB onboarding and risk assessments to identity verification processes. Choose the process you need and start working with your client / customer at record speed. Thanks to our no-code technology, you can tailor the processes to your needs in a few clicks and assign tasks directly to your client.

Documents & templates

Your BetterCo suite gives you the most frequently used templates from corporate, tax and employment law and compliance.

Based on validated data and the integration of public data sources, your documents can be up to 80% prefilled and integrate seamlessly into your compliance and collaboration workflows.

Timeline management

Using public data sources, all relevant events for each of your clients / customers are displayed as a timeline, as if by magic. We track events from 50+ categories, such as changes in top-level management, M&A events, shareholder meetings and more.

Reporting & audit trails

For audit-proof documentation, we create KYC and risk reports fully automatically.

Additional audit histories of data on clients, contacts, events and documents, including an activity timeline, give you an audit trail over a long period of time. That way, you're 100% ready to provide information at any time, in just a few clicks.

API & data integration

Integrate all our data and workflows into your system

Data

With our API, you can integrate all master data, events, documents, contacts and the complete matter matters of your clients / customers / dealers into your system.

Workflows

Quickly and easily integrate all our ready-made workflows and tailor them to your needs and industry:

Available workflows

  • Client KYC onboarding
  • Investor KYC onboarding
  • Tax KYC onboarding
  • Risk assessment
  • Due diligence obligations
  • Identity verification
  • Digital and wet-ink signatures
  • Health check
  • and more

The AI-powered compliance platform for KY-X regulated businesses

What our customers say

With BetterCo, we save enormous amounts of time and money on KYC onboarding and risk assessment of our clients, signing the engagement agreement and ongoing AML monitoring. Our clients appreciate the short turnaround times, and we no longer have to play email ping-pong.
Helder Schnittker Managing Partner, YPOG Partnership Berlin
As investment bankers, we are subject to the GwG for our strategy and M&A advisory services. With BetterCo, our teams can collect the required KYC data completely and quickly with ease. BetterCo also actively informs us about changes affecting our clients.
Falk Müller-Veerse Managing Partner, Bryan Garnier & Co, Munich
Breaches of GwG obligations are strictly penalized by the competent supervisory authorities. With BetterCo's KYC workflows, we can prove at any time that we have met our due diligence obligations and fulfill the record-keeping and retention obligations under the GwG.
Karin Arnold Lawyer and notary, Arnold Anwälte Berlin