The customer file your supervisor asks for, already written.
An anti-money-laundering inspection turns on one thing: can you show what you assessed about a client, why you assessed it that way, and that you kept looking afterwards. EntityWatch writes that record from the official register, keeps it current, and hands it over as one dated document. You approve it, and the decision stays yours.
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Firms rarely fail because they skipped the checks.
You did the work. You just cannot show the assessment.
The supervisors publish what they find. Money laundering rules are the most common area of non-compliance found in UK practice reviews, and in Denmark most orders are given for an inadequate risk assessment or inadequate customer due diligence procedures. The information had usually been collected. The written assessment had not.
The file was right the day you opened it.
Customer due diligence does not end at onboarding. It has to be kept up to date for as long as the relationship lasts, and firms are regularly found not to have done it. A paper file written in 2019 is not a current one, and a folder of PDFs cannot tell you which client changed last week.
Nothing happened, and you cannot prove you looked.
A quiet client looks exactly like a client nobody checked. Supervisors ask you to demonstrate that you searched, not merely that you found nothing. Without a dated record of the checks that came back clean, there is nothing to show them.
Six changes worth knowing about.
Each one is drawn from the official register, not inferred.
Status & dissolution
The company is struck off, dissolved or restored. Available in every country we cover.
Insolvency
Bankruptcy, administration and equivalent proceedings, from the official gazette where one exists.
Director changes
When a client in the United Kingdom or Denmark changes director, you are alerted — and your file shows you knew, on the date the register gives, before the supervisor asks. In France and Norway we fetch the current board when you ask. See coverage.
Beneficial ownership
Changes to registered owners and controlling persons. Available for the United Kingdom, where Companies House publishes persons with significant control. In Denmark we alert you when a shareholder joins or leaves the register of owners; the beneficial-owner register itself is closed. Not available in the other countries we cover: in Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany the registers are legally restricted, and elsewhere the register does not publish owners in a form anyone can monitor. See coverage.
Registered address
The registered office moves. Often the first visible sign of something else.
Sanctions & PEP
Continuous re-screening against EU, UN, UK and OFAC lists. Possible matches are routed to review, never auto-flagged as confirmed.
A list of owners is not an ownership structure.
The rules do not ask you to list the first layer of owners. They ask you to understand the ownership and control structure. Where a client sits under a holding company, that means following the chain to the people at the top, and being able to show that you did. EntityWatch draws that chain from the register, layer by layer, and puts it in the client file.
- Every company in the chain carries its own registration number, read from the register rather than matched on a name.
- Holdings appear as the band the register publishes. We never print a percentage the register did not.
- Where the chain stops, the file says where and why, and that nothing above that point has been checked.
Chains through parent companies are read from the United Kingdom’s register of people with significant control. It is the one beneficial-ownership register in our coverage open enough to follow. Elsewhere the file records that ownership was not checked and must be established from documents.
And when there is no owner to find.
Sometimes the chain ends without a person. The rules have an answer: once you have exhausted every means of identifying the beneficial owner, the senior person running the client is treated as the beneficial owner instead. What they also require, and what files are most often missing, is the written record of what you did before you got there. EntityWatch will not let a file be approved until that record exists.
It records what you actually did
Every step you took to identify the beneficial owner, who you ended up naming, how you verified them, and anything that got in the way. That is the record the rules ask for, and it goes into the file under your name.
The person named is screened
From the moment the file treats someone as the beneficial owner, they are checked against sanctions and politically-exposed-person sources like anyone else. An unscreened beneficial owner is the gap the file exists to close.
It refuses when it should
If the register was never read, EntityWatch will not accept the fallback at all. Not reading a register is the opposite of exhausting every means, and a file resting on it would read well and not hold.
Evidence, not assertions.
Every result in EntityWatch carries the registry document it came from. When you export an entity’s history, those links go with it. The export is built to be handed to an auditor or a regulator without further assembly: what changed, when it changed, when you were told, and the official filing that proves it.
- Every finding links to the source filing.
- The link survives the export — it is not stripped for a PDF.
- Nothing is inferred. If a registry does not publish it, we do not claim it.
We publish what we cannot do.
Ownership monitoring is real in one country — the United Kingdom — and unavailable everywhere else we cover, because those registers are closed or do not publish a change history. You should not have to discover that after buying.
Three steps, then it runs.
Add the companies you work with.
Paste a registration number or search by name. Import a list if you have one.
We watch the registers.
Every monitored company is checked on a schedule against its national register and the sanctions lists.
Approved due diligence notes, registry checks and detected changes. Records are never edited or deleted.
You get told, with the document.
An alert names what changed, when, and links to the filing.
| Registered name | Northfield Bookkeeping Ltd |
| Registration number | UK 00000001 |
| Status in the register | active |
| Incorporated | 2019-11-18 |
Verified from the national register on 2026-09-08. Registry entry linked.
Built for the person who has to prove it later.
Accountants and audit firms
Monitor client portfolios for status and structural changes. When an inspector asks for evidence, the audit trail exports with the source documents already attached.
Finance and credit teams
Track debtor and customer risk through official registry changes — insolvency filings, director exits, address moves — before they affect your receivables.
Compliance and AML officers
Ongoing due diligence obligations require more than a point-in-time check. EntityWatch maintains a dated record of every screening for every entity you add.
Procurement teams
Supplier continuity depends on knowing early. Registry-sourced alerts mean you know when a supplier’s situation changes, not when they tell you.
Customer logos and testimonials will appear here once real references are available. This slot is intentionally empty — fabricated proof on a compliance product is a credibility failure.
Common questions.
Where does the data come from?
Official national business registries, the EU VIES system for VAT, GLEIF for LEI, and public sanctions lists. Not a resold aggregate database.
Which countries do you cover?
See the coverage table — it lists every country and exactly which signals are available in each.
Can you monitor beneficial ownership everywhere?
No, and in most countries nobody can. Ownership monitoring is available for the United Kingdom, where Companies House publishes persons with significant control. It is not available in Ireland, the Netherlands or Germany: following the 2022 EU Court of Justice ruling on public access, those registers are restricted to obliged entities and authorities. In the remaining countries the register does not publish owners in a form a monitoring service can read. In Denmark the beneficial-owner register is closed too, but we alert you when a director or shareholder changes, so your file shows you knew before the supervisor asks. Where ownership is unavailable we monitor status, insolvency, address and sanctions instead, and the due diligence note says in writing that ownership could not be established from the register. Director changes are alerted in the United Kingdom and Denmark. In France and Norway we can fetch the current board when you ask, which is a check you run rather than an alarm that reaches you.
What happens on a possible sanctions match?
It is routed to review with the underlying record attached. EntityWatch does not declare a company sanctioned — that decision stays with you.
Can I export the history?
Yes. An entity’s full timeline exports with the source-document links intact, for use as inspection evidence.
Where is the data hosted?
In the EU. EntityWatch is operated by AddonNordic ApS, a Danish company (CVR 46495985).
Do I need a card to start?
No. The free tier monitors a limited number of companies with no payment details.
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