Trust & Company Service Providers

Precision Intelligence for TCSPs

Diliguard provides due diligence intelligence for trust and company service providers forming, administering, and providing registered agent or nominee services to corporate entities. The engine resolves the real individual behind every structure a TCSP creates, before that structure exists in a public registry.

The Compliance Mandate

Under Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 (the AMLR), trust and company service providers are designated obliged entities whenever they form companies or other legal entities, act or arrange for another person to act as a director, secretary, or nominee shareholder, or provide a registered office or business address. Regulators treat TCSPs as high-risk precisely because they sit at the point where anonymous capital becomes a named legal entity. Full customer due diligence, beneficial ownership identification at the 25% threshold, ongoing monitoring of every entity administered, and suspicious activity reporting apply to every formation and every nominee arrangement, not just the initial client intake.

Diliguard’s Application for TCSPs

1. Beneficial Owner Verification Before Formation

Before forming a new entity or accepting a nominee director arrangement, the TCSP runs the instructing client through Diliguard’s Corporate KYB & Global Registry Checks. The engine extracts exact shareholder percentages across any existing structures the client controls, establishing the real beneficial owner before a new layer is added.

2. Sanctions and PEP Screening on Instructing Clients

Diliguard’s AML Compliance & PEP Screening module screens the instructing client and any nominee appointees against global sanctions lists and politically exposed persons registers, closing the most common route sanctioned individuals use to access the financial system through a clean nominee.

3. Registered Address and Network Pattern Detection

TCSPs administer hundreds of entities from a small number of registered addresses. Diliguard’s IP & Network Intelligence evaluates connection and access patterns across the client portal, surfacing coordinated formation requests that indicate a single actor is layering multiple shell entities under different names.

4. Ongoing Director and Officer Monitoring

Diliguard’s Executive Person Trace monitors the individuals a TCSP has appointed as directors or officers across administered entities, scanning court filings and adverse media for new litigation or sanctions exposure that emerges after the initial formation.

A Day in the Life: The Company Formation Agent

Scenario: A prospective client instructs a TCSP to form three companies in quick succession, each requesting a different nominee director.

1. Initial Screening: The formation agent runs the instructing client through Diliguard before accepting the first engagement.
2. Network Detection: IP & Network Intelligence flags that all three formation requests originated from the same session, despite listing unrelated beneficial owners.
3. Structure Resolution: Corporate KYB traces the funding source for all three entities back to a single offshore account.
4. Escalation: The agent halts the third formation and files a suspicious activity report, with the full session and ownership trail documented.