For insurance

UBO checks for insurance

Life insurers and certain other insurance undertakings carry AML obligations too - including, for corporate policyholders, identifying who's actually behind the policy.

Where this applies

Life insurance and related investment-linked products are commonly in scope of AML obligations in their own right. Where the policyholder is a corporate entity rather than an individual, the same beneficial-ownership question applies as anywhere else: who actually controls the entity behind the policy. See beneficial ownership compliance.

A check that's easy to treat as secondary

Because the core product is insurance rather than a financial account, beneficial-ownership checks on a corporate policyholder can end up treated as a lower priority than they should be. The regulatory test itself doesn't distinguish by industry - see the 25% UBO threshold, explained.

Related

Beneficial ownership compliance

The underlying obligation.

The 25% UBO threshold

The test that applies regardless of sector.

UBO verification

How the check itself works.

See it work on a real company.

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