See who's behind a company.
Shareholders, holdings, ultimate beneficial owners — resolved from the registers, continuously monitored. One dossier instead of three systems.
Register-native UBO tracking, built for regulated environments
- Register-native
- Continuous monitoring
- ISO 27001
- DORA
- Hosted in Germany
The status quo
Register PDFs. UBO chains by hand. Every query costs.
The commercial register delivers PDFs, local court by local court. Someone rebuilds the second shareholder tier in Excel. Between quarters: silence. When a structure changes, the bank finds out too late.
argus reverses the order. Register first. Information service second.
A pipeline reads the relevant register documents, extracts shareholders, officers and quotas and stores them in a graph. The shareholding chain is recursively resolved down to the ultimate beneficial owner.
The result isn't a PDF export. It's a searchable dossier that keeps running in the background.
See through the corporate fog.
Four capabilities make argus a different category from classic business information services.
What argus actually does,
step by step.
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Shareholder chain and UBO
Holdings, partnerships, multi-tier nesting — recursively resolved down to the natural person. The system detects cycles and circular shareholdings on its own. Path-to-root in a single click.
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Continuous monitoring
Companies and individuals on watchlists. argus continuously observes announcements and filings and reports structural changes in real time. New shareholder, conversion, deletion — instant alert.
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AML, KYC, PEP and sanctions
The UBO structure is the foundation of every KYC process. argus delivers it structured, with a complete audit trail. Screening against PEP, sanctions and transparency register lists plugs in seamlessly on top.
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Extraction from registers
The commercial register is open, but heterogeneous. argus handles the preparation: layouts, tables, variations in spelling and address are cleanly consolidated. Full-text search with fuzzy matching.
What changes when the structure stays current.
Three teams. One source of truth on ownership.
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Banks and lenders
Understand borrowers at the shareholder level, measure concentration via UBO, catch structural changes — without two days of Excel per case.
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Compliance and regulation
UBO transparency, KYC onboarding, periodic reviews, audit trail. Prepared for the EU AMLR and tightened thresholds.
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M&A and due diligence
Target structure visualised in one session. Related-party transactions become visible instead of getting lost in subsidiaries.
Stands on its own. Compounds with atrium and atlas.
In atrium, the borrower context flows directly into the financing case — shareholders, UBOs, officers, portfolio overlap, without manual research. Combined with atlas, the result is a complete due diligence foundation: market and location on one side, company and owner on the other.
A different category
Not a credit-data replacement. A structural complement — depth and portfolio visibility, at a fraction of the cost.
Built for regulated environments
- ISO 27001
- DORA
- GDPR-compliant AI
- Hosted in Germany
- Regular pentests
- Complete audit trail
- Role-based access
The same trust stack that runs the corporate banking business of Germany's largest banking group.
Make data work for you.
Two ways to start: a demo with our team on one of your cases — or direct self-service access.