Beneficial Ownership Search

The Beneficial Ownership search can help you to reduce fraud, money laundering, and regulatory risk by providing the beneficial ownership details and data points that are associated with a business.

Before you begin this task:
  • Depending on your product subscription, you may not have access to this search.
  • Your DPPA (Driver’s Privacy Protection Act), GLBA (Gramm‐Leach‐Bliley Act), and DMF (Death Master File) permissible use selections appear at the bottom of the form. Click the links if you need to change your permissible use selections before you run a new search.
  • Select a country and enter information in at least the Company Name field. When you enter information in multiple fields, your search precision increases.
  • When you search common business names, complete as many fields as you can to avoid large result sets.
  • To view a sample report that is generated from this search, click Sample Report.
  • To view source information for this search, click Source.
Procedure:
  1. Select the country (default: United States).
  2. Enter the name of the company.

    This is a required field.

  3. Enter the street address with or without numbers.
    You can also include any other details (for example, Ave, St, Ct, or Blvd).
  4. Enter the city.
  5. Select the state (United States), province/territory (Canada), or region (other country).
  6. Enter the ZIP Code (United States) (for example, 12345 or 12345-6789) or the postal code (for example, A2B 3C4).
  7. Enter the email address.
  8. Enter a complete phone number with or without dashes, spaces, periods, or an area code (for example, 1234567891, (123)4567891, 123 456 7891, 123 4567891, 123-456-7891, 123.456.7891, 456-7891, or (123) 456 7891).
  9. To associate your search with a customer or a topic, provide a label (for example, the customer's name or a topic name) in the Reference ID field.
    The History function lets you view the searches that are associated with a reference ID.
    Note Your organization may require a reference ID in a particular format. Additionally, the contents of this field may be automatically completed or the field may have restrictions that are configured by your administrator.
  10. Click Search.