What is a case?

Cases are used to represent People or Businesses within our system. You will need to create a case to perform services such as KYC, KYB and AML. Cases are also needed to use our ongoing AML monitoring product.

Every Case has a set of properties such as Forename and Surname. Business cases and Person cases can have different properties, these are listed in the sections below.

Cases can be managed via our complete set of REST endpoints or in the Portal:

Common Properties

Every case regardless of whether it is a Business or Person have the following set of peoperties:

Property Name	Type	Optional/Mandatory	Notes
Id	string	N/A	The unique Id of the Case. This is set by the system and cannot be changed.
ClientReference	String	Mandatory	Use this property to link cases back to entities in your own systems.
Type	String	Optional	The Type of case, can be either "Person" or "Business". If blank, the case type will default to an individual case type.
OngoingMonitoring	Boolean	Optional	Enables or disables the Case in our ongoing AML monitoring product.
CreationDate	DateTime	N/A	The date and time of when the Case was created.
LastUpdatedDate	DateTime	N/A	The date and time of when the Case was last updated.
Tags	String[]	Optional	Custom case identifiers.

Person Cases

Person Cases are created by setting the case type to "Person". They represent people so include properties like Forename and PlaceOfBirth.

These are all the properties available to Person cases.

Property Name	Type	Optional/Mandatory	Notes
Title	String	Optional	The Title of the individual.
Forename	String	Optional	The Forename of the individual.
MiddleNames	String	Optional	The MiddleNames of the individual.
Surname	String	Optional	The Surname of the individual.
DayOfBirth	Integer	Optional	The DayOfBirth of the individual.
MonthOfBirth	Integer	Optional	The MonthOfBirth of the individual.
YearOfBirth	Integer	Optional	The YearOfBirth of the individual.
PlaceOfBirth	String	Optional	The PlaceOfBirth of the individual.
Email	String	Optional	The Email of the individual.
TaxCode	String	Optional	The TaxCode of the individual.
DrivingLicenceNumber	String	Optional	The DrivingLicenceNumber of the individual.
MRZ	String	Optional	The MRZ of the individual.
Gender	String	Optional	The Gender of the individual.

Address properties

Property Name	Type	Optional/Mandatory	Notes
HouseName	String	Optional	The HouseName of the individual.
HouseNumber	String	Optional	The HouseNumber of the individual.
Flat	String	Optional	The Flat of the individual.
Street	String	Optional	The Street of the individual.
TownCity	String	Optional	The Town/City of the individual.
County	String	Optional	The County of the individual.
Region	String	Optional	The Region of the individual.
Country	String	Optional	The Country of the individual. We advise setting this to a standard 3 letter ISO code to ensure compatibility with all our services
Postcode	String	Optional	The Postcode of the individual.

Business Cases

Business Cases are created by setting the case type to "Business". They represent businesses so include properties like Name and RegistrationNumber.

These are all the properties available to Business cases.

Property Name	Type	Optional/Mandatory	Notes
Name	String	Optional	The Name of the business.
RegistrationNumber	String	Optional	The registration number of the business, such as a Companies House company number.
LookupId	String	Optional	The KYB specific id.
Country	String	Optional	The Country of the business. We advise setting this to a standard 3 letter ISO code to ensure compatibility with all our services.