Updated July 15, 2026

Know Your Business (KYB)

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Key Takeaways

Know Your Business is the check a supplier runs to confirm a buyer is a real, registered entity and that the people signing for it are authorised to. It is the business counterpart to KYC, and the first gate in onboarding.

What KYB covers

Know Your Business confirms a buyer is a real, registered entity and that the people signing are authorised to. It is the business counterpart to KYC, and it runs before credit questions such as a trade reference.

Identity first, then capacity to pay.

What gets checked

Legal name and registration against the filing authority.
Trading address, and whether it matches the registration.

Beneficial owners above the disclosure threshold.
Signing authority of the person completing the application.

KYB compared with KYC
KYB	KYC
Subject A registered business and those acting for it.	Subject An individual person.

A buyer who fails KYB is not necessarily a bad credit risk. Often it is a name mismatch between the trading name and the registration, which a person can resolve in minutes once it is surfaced.

Verify a buyer before you price the risk

Nuvo runs KYB in the application, not after it.

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Know who you are trading with

Verification runs inside onboarding, so a good buyer is not held up by a name mismatch.

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What’s new with Nuvo

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Partnership Announcement

Nuvo partners with CreditRiskMonitor

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Updated July 15, 2026

Know Your Business (KYB)

Book a demo

Key Takeaways

Know Your Business is the check a supplier runs to confirm a buyer is a real, registered entity and that the people signing for it are authorised to. It is the business counterpart to KYC, and the first gate in onboarding.

What KYB covers

Know Your Business confirms a buyer is a real, registered entity and that the people signing are authorised to. It is the business counterpart to KYC, and it runs before credit questions such as a trade reference.

Identity first, then capacity to pay.

What gets checked

Legal name and registration against the filing authority.
Trading address, and whether it matches the registration.

Beneficial owners above the disclosure threshold.
Signing authority of the person completing the application.

KYB compared with KYC
KYB	KYC
Subject A registered business and those acting for it.	Subject An individual person.

A buyer who fails KYB is not necessarily a bad credit risk. Often it is a name mismatch between the trading name and the registration, which a person can resolve in minutes once it is surfaced.

Verify a buyer before you price the risk

Nuvo runs KYB in the application, not after it.

Get started

Know who you are trading with

Verification runs inside onboarding, so a good buyer is not held up by a name mismatch.

Request a demo

Learn More

What’s new with Nuvo

Product Launch

Bringing agentic AI to the physical economy

Partnership Announcement

Nuvo partners with CreditRiskMonitor

Product Launch