Partner Interview - Kyckr

Our Solution Partners bring huge value to the Detected platform. We curate the world’s best across data, identity, screenings, and much more. Our Partner Spotlight series gives our partners a chance to share what makes their solution unique, highlight what they do best, and explain how we work together to create market-leading onboarding and monitoring capabilities.

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1. What is your name, who do you work for, and what is your role within your organisation?

My name is Steve Lamb and I’m the Chief Operating Officer of Kyckr, the global business register.

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2. For those who may not be familiar, what does your company do and what makes your product offering unique?

Kyckr provides Financial Crime professionals with access to a live network of 300+ company registers across 100+ countries. Every day, we help some of the world’s largest regulated institutions to verify their business customers, retrieve official documentation in one place and unwrap complex ownerships in seconds. Crucially, all of the information we provide is retrieved and normalised in real time at the point of request, giving you the most up-to-date and compliant view of a company.

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3. What problems do you help your customers solve, and how do you solve them better than others?

Verifying customer-supplied information

Companies that are regulated under AML law need ‘reliable and independent’ information to verify their business customers’ details. This is a legal requirement and is enforced in the majority of countries.

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Before Kyckr, analysts were generally limited to two options; either using a traditional private company data provider, or accessing company registers manually via their browser.

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Private company data providers have their strengths, but the information they provide generally isn’t live and has unclear sourcing. You might find a record that in some cases is five or six years out of date, which can create substantial risk in your KYB process.

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On the other hand, accessing registers directly can be messy and time-consuming. Registries are typically small, underfunded government agencies with outdated technological systems. There is also no consistency in the access mechanisms or data formatting between different countries, necessitating manual data extraction and transformation.

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Kyckr provides a third way. We offer provably accurate registry data, sourced live at the point of request, but with all the advantages of traditional data suppliers, such as structured information and API access. 

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Uncovering hidden UBOs

Kyckr’s UBO Verify tool also helps to automate the ownership discovery process, automatically unwrapping structures across borders and calculating ultimate beneficial ownership in seconds, not hours.

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Before UBO Verify, analysts would need to be part detective and part mathematician to calculate complex ownership. We’ve observed this process and it typically involves meticulously poring over articles of association and shareholder lists, before consolidating ownership to calculate UBOs. Staggeringly, this process could sometimes take up to 10 hours or more for complex cases.

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Now, our tool automates the process, using live company register data. It identifies first-layer ownership, and where corporate shareholders are found, matches these to registered entities globally. It continues this process automatically until all publicly identifiable layers of ownership are found - taking on average about 10-20 seconds. Finally, individuals with over 25% ownership are calculated and presented to the user. Easy!

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Remediating existing customer information

For many financial institutions, remediation projects are a necessary but painful reality. Over time, customer records degrade as data becomes outdated, ownership changes, and regulatory requirements shift. The result is a backlog of incomplete or non-compliant records that must be reviewed and updated, often at enormous cost.

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Kyckr helps institutions tackle remediation efficiently and at scale. Using our batch processing tools, customers can refresh large volumes of company data directly from official registers - eliminating the need for analysts to source and validate documents manually. We match the existing book to registrations, flag inconsistencies, and provide a clear audit trail back to the registry source - making regulatory reporting far easier and saving weeks of manual resourcing time.

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4. What types of businesses or industries benefit most from your solution?

Our solution is best suited to global institutions that are regulated under AML legislation, meaning they require reliable and independent information with which to verify their customers.

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This includes:

• Tier 1 Banks and other financial institutions (in fact, Kyckr works with half of the top-20 western banks by size)
• Fintechs
• Law firms
• Accounting and consulting practices
• Insurers

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In our globalised financial ecosystem, these types of organisations typically have customers in many different countries, meaning they benefit significantly from the aggregation of global data that Kyckr provides.

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5. How do you see your offering complementing the Detected platform? Why is our partnership a natural fit?

It’s a classic case of an innovative platform, combined with extensive and reliable data, to produce outstanding results for customers.

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KYB platforms need reliable data to power them and that’s exactly what Kyckr offers. Partnerships are a part of our DNA - we believe our data is best consumed seamlessly within end-to-end workflow solutions, so Detected is the perfect fit.

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6. Can you give a real-world example of how your solution has helped customers in practice- ideally with measurable outcomes?

We recently completed a remediation project with a global software provider, who asked Kyckr to cleanse and analyse an existing book of close to 10,000 European customers. Using our real-time registry connections and automated data enrichment tools, we completed the project in less than two weeks - eliminating manual intervention and providing live director and shareholder data for over 60% of records. More importantly, the customer was able to demonstrate an audit trail of time-stamped, registry-sourced data to regulators - a critical requirement under tightening AML expectations.

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7. In your view, how is the market changing, and how are you staying ahead of those changes?

Regulators are raising the bar when it comes to corporate transparency and unfortunately, the burden of proof sits with regulated entities. Expectations around data provenance, auditability, and real-time accuracy are now front and center. We’re staying ahead by deepening integrations with registries, enhancing UBO discovery automation, and building tools that make it easier to explain and trust the data that underpins onboarding and monitoring decisions. In short, we’re shifting from static data supply to dynamic, decision-grade intelligence.

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8. What should people not misunderstand about what your product or data can do?

Kyckr isn’t a KYC orchestration or workflow tool - instead, we partner with others that match that description, with our data powering a key part of their solutions. We’re the performance-grade ‘oil in the engine’ - it’s essential and keeps the engine ticking along…but is really something you’d prefer not to worry about yourself!

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9. What has your experience been like working with Detected so far?

Detected has been a fantastic partner to work with - agile, collaborative, and genuinely committed to solving meaningful problems in onboarding. Their team understands the importance of clean, compliant data and how it can unlock better user experiences. We’ve particularly appreciated their willingness to integrate deeply with our APIs and innovate jointly to improve customer outcomes.

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10. What excites you most about the future of this partnership?

We’re excited about scaling this partnership to support more use cases across onboarding, monitoring, and remediation. Detected has built a smart, flexible platform that aligns perfectly with our registry-first data philosophy. Together, we believe we can raise the standard for what “good” looks like in business verification, particularly in high-growth verticals like fintech and cross-border B2B.

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Final thoughts: Is there anything else you’d like to share with our audience?

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If you’re relying on outdated or unverifiable company data in your onboarding or monitoring flows, now’s the time to rethink that approach. The cost of non-compliance - or simply poor customer experience - is too high. Working with Detected and Kyckr means embedding trust, accuracy, and speed at the heart of your KYB process.

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