These guides are written for the people who work business onboarding files: KYB analysts, onboarding leads and heads of compliance at banks, payment platforms, stablecoin and crypto companies, and neobanks. Each one explains a part of KYB verification the way an analyst does it, with the point at which each source stops being evidence. A registry record, a certificate of good standing and a clean screening result each establish something specific, and none of them establishes everything.
Start with how to verify a business for KYB for the full process, or the KYB review checklist for the condensed version. The provider guides explain what a named partner publicly asks for before it will activate a business, and the state guides cover what each business registry shows. Every external fact is sourced and dated, and provider pages carry a last-verified date because requirements change.
Sweat AI is an AI-native BPO for banks and fintechs, starting with back-office workflows like KYB, onboarding and fraud reviews. See a worked, illustrative file on the sample KYB review.
- Adyen KYB requirements, explained: what to prepareWhat Adyen's public docs ask platform users to provide for KYB: registration details, UBOs, signatories, and the document rules behind each check.
- Bridge KYB requirements, explained: what to prepareWhat Bridge's public docs ask a business to provide for KYB: formation and ownership documents, control persons, proof of address and activity disclosures.
- How to triage fraud and transaction-monitoring alerts: a defensible dispositionHow an analyst triages fraud and transaction-monitoring alerts, tests the alert against the customer profile, and writes a disposition that holds up.
- How to verify a business for KYB: the analyst's processThe KYB analyst's process for verifying a business, step by step, with what each check establishes and where its evidence stops.
- How to verify a California business for KYBHow to check a California entity on bizfile Online for KYB verification: status, FTB standing, Statements of Information, $5 certificates, red flags.
- How to verify a Delaware business for KYBHow to check a Delaware entity for KYB verification: what the free ICIS search shows, what the $10 and $20 status checks add, and what to request.
- How to verify a Florida business for KYBHow to check a Florida entity on Sunbiz for KYB verification: the free record, authorized persons, free filing images, fees, red flags and requests.
- How to verify a Nevada business for KYBHow to check a Nevada entity for KYB verification after the September 2026 move to ORION: what the annual list must name, fees, red flags, requests.
- How to verify a New York business for KYBHow to check a New York entity for KYB verification: the free DOS Public Inquiry record, the publication rule for LLCs, fees, red flags and requests.
- How to verify a Texas business for KYBHow to check a Texas entity for KYB verification: the free Comptroller record, the new SOSPortal ($1 per search), certificates of fact, and red flags.
- How to verify a Wyoming business for KYBHow to check a Wyoming entity for KYB verification: the free record, three standing flags, free good standing certificates, and what LLC records omit.
- KYB review checklist: what a complete business onboarding file containsA practical KYB review checklist for a business onboarding file: entity, ownership, people, screening, activity, funds, requests and sign-off.
- KYB software or a KYB team? A buyer's decision guideHow to choose between KYB verification software, an in-house team, a BPO and a managed review service, and when you need more than one.
- Shell company red flags in business onboarding: 12 patterns with real casesTwelve shell company red flags a KYB analyst sees in business onboarding, each tied to a public court or enforcement record, with the check to run.
- Stripe Connect KYB requirements, explained: what to prepareWhat Stripe's public docs ask connected-account businesses to provide: company, representative and owner details, tax ID letters, website checks.
- What a certificate of good standing proves in KYB (and what it doesn't)What a certificate of good standing proves in a KYB file, what it leaves open, how to check it is genuine, and what to request instead.