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Arakan Onboard · Client onboarding (KYC/CDD)

Take on a client properly, without the email chase.

A client portal for KYC documents, with screening, UBO capture, risk rating and a CDD report.

For: Corporate service providers, law and advisory firms

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No card needed. One account works across every Arakan app.

What Onboard does

Client onboarding (KYC/CDD)

  • A portal for your clients

    Clients upload their documents and see their own status. They never see your internal notes.

  • Documents read for you

    Passports, trade licences, MOAs and share registers are classified and their details extracted, with mismatches flagged.

  • Screening built in

    Clients and their owners are screened against official sanctions, PEP and warning lists through Verify.

  • Ownership captured

    The beneficial ownership chain is recorded and linked to the client file.

  • Risk rating

    Each client is scored against your firm's own risk criteria.

  • A CDD decision on record

    Clear, enhanced due diligence or decline, with the risk level, the reasons and a named approver. Every step is logged.

How it works

  1. 1

    Invite the client

    Send the portal link.

  2. 2

    Documents and owners come back

    Read, checked and screened as they arrive.

  3. 3

    Decide

    Rate the risk and record the CDD decision.

Learn the rules first

What the law asks, before the software.

Explainer series narrated over diagrams, with the article behind every claim. No product on screen. Each video is about two minutes and starts the next.

Client onboarding, explained

For: Partners, compliance officers and onboarding teams at UAE firms that take on clients under the anti-money laundering rules: accountants, auditors, corporate service providers, real estate brokers, gold dealers, and regulated financial firms.

7 videos · about 13 min in all

Every series and demo

Questions

What happens with higher-risk clients?

Onboard asks for the extra enhanced due diligence documents and keeps them in the client's file.

Do clients need an account?

They use the portal link you send. They see only their own onboarding.

Works with

For firms serving clients. The apps share your companies, documents and rules, so nothing is entered twice.

  • VerifySanctions and PEP screening
  • ShieldClients' regulatory compliance
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Comply

Your compliance manager

Govern

Governance and board compliance

Onboard

Client onboarding (KYC/CDD)

Shield

Clients' regulatory compliance

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Clients' FTA compliance

Scout

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Sanctions and PEP screening

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UAE rulebook library

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