Client Onboarding & Wealth Investigations

Our Services

Client Onboarding & Wealth Investigations

Discreet, intelligence-led due diligence to protect reputation, assets, and compliance.

Why It Matters
Onboarding the wrong client can cause lasting damage. A single hidden scandal, undisclosed political exposure, or opaque ownership structure can trigger reputational crises, regulatory attention, or operational disruption. Traditional AML/KYC checks often miss these risks. Safe Sail closes the gap with Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) — a deeper, intelligence-led approach built for the superyacht industry and private wealth sector. Safe Sail’s Voyage Risk Assessment provides the foresight and intelligence needed to plan confidently, protect assets, and ensure smooth, incident-free operations.
Our Approach
We combine structured open-source intelligence (OSINT) with insights from regulated partners to deliver actionable and defensible onboarding intelligence.

Every case follows the intelligence cycle — Plan → Collect → Evaluate → Analyse → Report → Review — ensuring systematic, transparent, and high-quality results.

Risk Areas Covered

Financial Risk

Flags bankruptcies, disqualifications, and adverse credit events via open sources and regulated credit data. Helps gauge financial crime exposure.

Legal & Regulatory Risks

Reviews criminal and civil litigation, corruption-related offences, and enforcement findings. Aligns with AML’s integrity and financial crime risk checks.

Subject Profile

Establishes identity using publicly available identifiers, career history, and linked addresses. Supports AML’s customer due diligence (CDD) baseline.

Integrity & Reputation

Assesses sentiment across global media, adverse coverage, and online conduct. Provides insight into hidden risks beyond financial data.

Memberships & Networks

Highlights professional associations, regulatory bodies, and affiliations. Provides contextual insight into influence, elite networks, or reputational exposure.

Business Affiliations

Maps directorships, shareholdings, and UBO structures (OSINT-based). Addresses AML’s beneficial ownership transparency requirement.

Jurisdiction & Sector Risk

Applies FATF lists, Basel AML Index, and Transparency International CPI to assess country and sector vulnerabilities. Fits AML’s risk-based approach.


Assets & Wealth Indicators

Identifies real estate holdings, yacht ownership (IMO/Equasis), aircraft registration (FAA/EASA/CAA), and other notable assets. Tangible assets are correlated with career timeline and business activity to strengthen plausibility.

Source of Wealth Narrative

Reconstructs wealth origin and growth from career earnings, asset acquisitions, business holdings, and public filings. Draws on company accounts, registry disclosures, media reporting, and lifestyle indicators, graded Strong / Partial / Weak with explicit gaps flagged.

Risk Areas Covered

Reviews criminal and civil litigation, corruption-related offences, and enforcement findings. Aligns with AML’s integrity and financial crime risk checks.

Establishes identity using publicly available identifiers, career history, and linked addresses. Supports AML’s customer due diligence (CDD) baseline.

Maps directorships, shareholdings, and UBO structures (OSINT-based). Addresses AML’s beneficial ownership transparency requirement.

 Flags bankruptcies, disqualifications, and adverse credit events via open sources and regulated credit data. Helps gauge financial crime exposure.

Identifies real estate holdings, yacht ownership (IMO/Equasis), aircraft registration (FAA/EASA/CAA), and other notable assets. Tangible assets are correlated with career timeline and business activity to strengthen plausibility.
Highlights professional associations, regulatory bodies, and affiliations. Provides contextual insight into influence, elite networks, or reputational exposure.
Assesses sentiment across global media, adverse coverage, and online conduct. Provides insight into hidden risks beyond financial data.
Reconstructs wealth origin and growth from career earnings, asset acquisitions, business holdings, and public filings. Draws on company accounts, registry disclosures, media reporting, and lifestyle indicators, graded Strong / Partial / Weak with explicit gaps flagged.
Clear chronology of career, assets, and controversies to spot patterns and red flags.
Applies FATF lists, Basel AML Index, and Transparency International CPI to assess country and sector vulnerabilities. Fits AML’s risk-based approach.

Deliverables

Safe Sail provides more than intelligence — we deliver structured outputs designed for decision-making and defensibility:

Why Choose Safe Sail

Safe Sail provides more than intelligence — we deliver structured outputs designed for decision-making and defensibility:

Deliverables

Safe Sail provides more than intelligence — we deliver structured outputs designed for decision-making and defensibility:

Important Note

Safe Sail EDD reports are OSINT-based intelligence products. They support risk management and reputational due diligence but are not a substitute for statutory AML/CTF/KYC obligations. For deeper verification such as Source of Wealth or UBO confirmation, we integrate regulated third-party providers. Final onboarding decisions remain the responsibility of the client.

Safeguard your reputation before it’s at risk.

Safeguard your reputation before it’s at risk.

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Contact Info

Mon - Frd : 8:00 -16:00
+44 7922-731-801
Integrity@safesail.co.uk

Office Address

PO Box: 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ