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Background Check

The background check is an analysis of management, direction and ownership of companies, in the past and up until now, related to your User. It details a cartography of the relationship between your user and other entities such as companies under management, parent/sister/subsidiary companies, officers, and so on.

This gives you information about people and companies related to your user as a graph of nodes and links of entities related to your user, and possible risks/disasters found around those.

The Background Check's history is regardless of the month history current setting.

The background check can be done on both natural users and legal users.

FieldTypeDescription
acceptablestring
  • OK if it is acceptable
  • NOK if it is risky
reasonsstring[]A list of risks found during the background check, each element can be one of:
  • BENEFICIAL_OWNER_BLACKLISTED: One or more beneficial owners are people blacklisted by the authorities
  • BENEFICIAL_OWNER_NATIONALITY_BLACKLISTED: One or more beneficial owners have the nationality of a blacklisted country
  • COMPANY_ADDRESS_BLACKLISTED: The company is headquartered in a blacklisted country
  • MANAGEMENT_DIFFICULTIES: The company being studied has had management difficulties, in the past or ongoing, leading to collective procedures
  • FINANCIAL_DIFFICULTIES: The company being studied has had financial difficulties, in the past or ongoing, leading to collective procedures
  • RELATED_MANAGEMENT_DIFFICULTIES: One or more companies related to the company being studied has had management difficulties, in the past or ongoing, leading to collective procedures.
  • RELATED_FINANCIAL_DIFFICULTIES: One or more companies related to the company being studied has had financial difficulties, in the past or ongoing, leading to collective procedures.
  • CLOSED_COMPANY: The company is struck off from the trade and companies registry, or appears as closed on INSEE registries
  • INACTIVE_COMPANY: The company is inactive
warningsstring[]A list of warnings found during the background check, each element can be one of:
  • BENEFICIAL_OWNERS_UNAVAILABLE: The BackgroundCheck was carried out despite failing to obtain the list of beneficial owners due to the 'require_beneficial_owners_check' setting provider
  • BENEFICIAL_OWNERS_EMPTY: The company has no Beneficial owners
ratiofloatThe ratio of collective procedures
detailsDetailsList of nodes and links showing the relationship of the company's officers

Details

FieldTypeDescription
nodesarray of NodeList of nodes.
linksarray of LinkList of links.

Node

Nodes are entities of the relationship graph of your user. They represent companies and their officers (both legal and natural).

FieldTypeDescription
idstringIdentifier of officer.
sirenstringSiren of the officer if it is a LEGAL person.
namestringName of the officer if it is a LEGAL person.
first_namestringFirst name of the officer if it is a NATURAL person.
last_namestringLast name of the officer if it is a NATURAL person.
birth_datedatetimeDate of birth of the officer, if it is a NATURAL person.
typestringType of officer, can be either LEGAL or NATURAL
pclPclCollective procedures indicators
FieldTypeDescription
fromstringIdentifier node of subsidiary.
tostringIdentifier node of the officer.
rolestringName of the position held by the officer.
start_datedatetimeDate from which the position held by the officer started.
end_datedatetimeDate on which the position held by the officer ended.

Pcl

FieldTypeDescription
management_difficultiesboolWill be true if the officer or company has had management difficulties, and false otherwise
financial_difficultiesboolWill be true if the officer or company has had financial difficulties., and false otherwise