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Compliance · identity & address checks

Money Laundering Checks

Our services are supervised by HMRC, so we’re required to confirm your identity and the beneficial owners of any company or entity. We make this as easy as possible using trusted digital verification.

Get in touch Companies House ID verification

  • HMRC-supervised
  • Digital checks via Credas
  • Belfast-based local team

Why we run these checks

As a regulated provider we comply with UK Money Laundering Regulations. That means confirming your identity, and identifying the beneficial owners of any company or entity, before we act. We use advanced identity-verification systems and data sources to make this quick and straightforward — most people verify in minutes through the Credas app.

Personal ID requirements

Find your situation below — in most cases verification takes just a few minutes in the Credas app.

UK resident

You’ll need:

  • British/Irish passport or UK/NI driving licence (not expired)
  • To have been at your current address for 12+ months
  • A bank/building society statement or utility bill from the last 3 months in your name at your current address (not a mobile or credit-card bill)

We verify your identity and address digitally — you’ll get an emailed link to the Credas app, which guides you through scanning your documents and taking a selfie.

EU resident

You’ll need:

  • EU passport (not expired)
  • To have been at your current address for 12+ months
  • Certified bank/building society statement or utility bill from the last 3 months in your name at your current address

Your address proof must be certified (see below). You’ll verify via the Credas app as above.

Rest of the world

You’ll need:

  • Certified passport (not expired)
  • To have been at your current address for 12+ months
  • Certified bank/building society statement or utility bill from the last 3 months in your name at your current address

We can’t fully verify digitally for this case yet — we’ll be in touch to request the documents needed.

Credas guides you through verification and has a handy user guide. Any issues, just let us know.

Identifying ultimate beneficial owners

When we form a company for you or provide our registered office service, we first identify the company’s beneficial owners — anyone who controls 25% or more. A beneficial owner can be another corporate entity, a trust or a charity; sometimes there’s no direct beneficial owner, in which case we’ll work with you to identify the relevant parties. Where entities are outside the UK we’ll request further documentation, and each beneficial owner is subject to the personal ID checks above.

Document certification

Some documents need to be certified — confirmed as a true copy of the original by someone in good standing.

Who can certify

Someone in good standing who is not related to you, living at the same address, or in a relationship with you — for example a:

  • bank or building society official
  • solicitor or notary
  • chartered accountant
  • councillor
  • minister of religion
  • dentist
  • teacher or lecturer

How they certify it

  1. Write ‘Certified to be a true copy of the original seen by me’ on the document
  2. Sign and date it
  3. Print their name under the signature
  4. Add their occupation, address, telephone number and any professional affiliations (e.g. an ACCA number)

Then upload it in Credas as your supporting document, or email it to us if requested. We may contact the certifier to confirm.

Questions about verification?

Our Belfast team is happy to help you through the process.

Contact us Call 028 9055 9955