Nimble's KYC screening agent populates a case file on any business with its registration, officers and owners, sanctions and PEP checks, and adverse media by severity from the live web, with a low, medium or high risk rating. It reads national company registries and GLEIF, ownership records, sanctions lists, regulator and court sites and the press.
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Run a KYC screen on Greensill Capital in the United Kingdom
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Run a KYC screen on Greensill Capital in the United Kingdom
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Risk rating
highGREENSILL CAPITAL (UK) LIMITED
High risk: the entity is in administration (appointed 8 March 2021) with liabilities exceeding £1.6 billion; the Insolvency Service found conduct breaching directors' duties under the Companies Act 2006 and founder Lex Greensill agreed to a nine-year director disqualification (effective 23 June 2026 until June 2035) after transactions removed legal protections from a Credit Suisse fund's investment and $440 million was diverted, causing a $440 million loss to the fund; the LEI registration is lapsed. No sanctions or PEP hit on the entity itself.
Registration
Legal name
GREENSILL CAPITAL (UK) LIMITED
Registry number
08126173
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom (England & Wales)
Status
In Administration (joint administrators Chris Laverty, Russell Simpson and Will Stagg of Grant Thornton UK LLP appointed 8 March 2021; Russell Simpson replaced Trevor O'Sullivan as administrator pursuant to an order of the High Court dated 27 June 2022)
Incorporated
2012-07-02
Registered address
C/O Grant Thornton UK Advisory & Tax LLP, 11th Floor Landmark St Peters Square, 1 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 4PB
LEI
2138004D9J9DZUANAI93 (LEI registration LAPSED, last updated 2025-03-29)
Sanctions (1)
Greensill Capital (UK) Limited · No match identifiedNo Greensill entity or officer found on the UK sanctions list in the sources reviewed; the entity appears in regulatory/insolvency records only
Politically exposed persons (1)
David CameronFormer UK Prime Minister; serving as an adviser to Greensill at the time of the collapse (reported 5 March 2021)
Adverse media (4)
2026-06-04highLex Greensill agreed to a nine-year UK director disqualification after an Insolvency Service investigation: in late 2020 he caused the companies to enter transactions with Katerra that removed legal protections from the Credit Suisse (Lux) Supply Chain Finance Fund's investment, and caused or allowed Greensill Capital (UK) Limited to use $440 million received in November 2020 for purposes other than redeeming notes owed to the fund, causing a $440 million loss; conduct breached his Companies Act 2006 duty of reasonable care, skill and diligence Regulatory enforcement - director disqualification · Confirmed - disqualification undertaking accepted by the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on 2 June 2026; ban effective 23 June 2026 until June 2035
2024-03-07highThe Insolvency Service commenced director disqualification proceedings against Alexander (Lex) Greensill, seeking disqualification of up to 15 years, in respect of his conduct as a director of Greensill Capital (UK) Limited and Greensill Limited (investigations began May 2022; a six-week trial was due to begin 8 June 2026 but ended via the disqualification undertaking) Regulatory enforcement - director disqualification proceedings · Confirmed regulatory enforcement action
2021-03-08highGreensill Capital (UK) Limited collapsed into administration in March 2021 with liabilities of more than £1.6 billion (administration entered 8 March 2021) Insolvency/corporate collapse · Confirmed regulatory/insolvency finding
2021-03-05highCredit Suisse moved to wind down specialist funds worth $10bn (£7.2bn) mostly invested in loans linked to Greensill, after Greensill lost a NSW court battle to prevent an insurer withdrawing protection; Greensill was preparing to file for insolvency having lost the backing of Credit Suisse and GAM Financial loss / fund wind-down · Event reported at the time
Officers and owners (21)
Name
Role
Nationality
Alexander David Greensill (Lex Greensill)
Person with significant control (Active, notified 6 April 2016; nature of control: has significant influence or control over the trustees of a trust; DOB December 1976, British); also Director 2 July 2012 - 17 June 2026
British
Peter Edward Greensill
Director (2 July 2012 - 22 January 2018); DOB September 1981
Australian
Jason Richard Alexander Austin
Director (2 July 2012 - 21 June 2019) and Secretary (2 July 2012 - 16 September 2015); DOB March 1968
British
Patrick Joseph Allin
Director (8 February 2016 - 22 January 2018); DOB August 1951
British
David Campbell Brierwood
Director (1 January 2015 - 22 January 2018); DOB November 1960
British
William Crothers
Director (1 August 2016 - 4 February 2021); DOB November 1960
British
Alastair Kenneth Eadie
Director (19 February 2019 - 12 February 2021); DOB July 1966
British
Divya Sara Eapen
Director (13 July 2020 - 12 February 2021); DOB May 1980
Singaporean
Bradley Jay Gans
Director (15 December 2020 - 28 December 2020); DOB August 1960
British
Neil Albert Garrod
Director (24 July 2019 - 12 February 2021); DOB February 1964
British
William Roland Hartley-Urquhart
Director (20 May 2015 - 22 January 2018); DOB November 1958
British
Jonathan Edward Myott Lane
Director (14 December 2018 - 24 July 2019) and Secretary (16 September 2015 - 30 June 2020); DOB July 1971
British, Irish
Bartholomeus Gerardus Joannes Ras
Director (19 February 2019 - 12 February 2021); DOB March 1970
Dutch
Sean Denis Robson-Hanafin
Director (24 July 2019 - 20 December 2020); DOB January 1972
British
Maurice Nicholas Beech Thompson
Director (25 September 2014 - 22 January 2018); DOB April 1958
British
Christopher William Bates
Director (14 December 2018 - 9 January 2019); DOB January 1976
British
Rachel Justine Donnelly
Secretary (19 February 2019 - 11 December 2019)
Hayley Louise James
Secretary (30 June 2020 - 21 October 2021)
Chris Laverty
Joint administrator (Grant Thornton UK LLP, appointed 8 March 2021)
Russell Simpson
Joint administrator (Grant Thornton UK LLP; replaced Trevor O'Sullivan as administrator pursuant to a High Court order dated 27 June 2022)
Will Stagg
Joint administrator (Grant Thornton UK LLP, appointed 8 March 2021)
Related entities (4)
Greensill Capital Management Company (UK) Limited · UK group company; entered administration on the same date (8 March 2021) as Greensill Capital (UK) Limited; was also the original name of Greensill Capital (UK) Limited from 2 July to 18 July 2012
Greensill Limited · UK group company; Lex Greensill was also its director; entered Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation on 30 July 2021 11344883
Greensill Capital Pty Limited · Australian parent company to the Greensill Group; entered administration in Australia on 9 March 2021 and liquidation on 22 April 2021
Greensill Capital Securities Limited · UK group company; entered Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation on 24 June 2022
Wirecard
Run a KYC screen on Wirecard AG in Germany
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Run a KYC screen on Wirecard AG in Germany
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highWirecard AG
High risk. Wirecard AG, once a DAX-30 payments processor (HRB 169227, Amtsgericht München; LEI 529900A8LX4KL0YUTH71, now LAPSED), collapsed in June 2020 after EUR 1.9 billion supposedly held in Asian trust accounts was found not to exist, and filed for insolvency on 25 June 2020 with about EUR 3.2 billion of debt. Insolvency proceedings were opened on 25.08.2020 (Az. 1542 IN 1308/20) and the company was dissolved under § 263 AktG; the register entry continues ('aktiv') with no deletion as of 21.10.2026, so the legal entity subsists without trading. Confirmed adverse findings: KPMG's 2020 special audit could not verify the majority of 2016-2018 profits; the Munich I Regional Court declared the 2017 and 2018 annual accounts null and void (5 May 2022) and in September 2024 ordered former board members to pay EUR 140 million in damages, with a prior EUR 140 million default judgment against fugitive ex-COO Jan Marsalek; the BGH ruled on 13 November 2025 that shareholder damages claims are subordinated in the insolvency. Former CEO Markus Braun and two co-defendants remain on trial at Landgericht München I (opened 8 December 2022; 289th hearing day on 28 October 2026, no verdict yet, Braun in pre-trial custody since June 2020) — an open criminal proceeding. Former COO Jan Marsalek is a fugitive wanted under an Interpol red notice since August 2020, reported living in Moscow under a false identity with alleged Russian intelligence ties. Group entities drew regulatory actions (FCA freeze of Wirecard Card Solutions; MAS payment-services directions; BaFin criminal referral and resignations). No sanctions match was found (OFAC search empty; no EU/UK/UN listing in the sources reviewed) and no PEP was identified among the officers — Markus Braun's Austrian Chancellery advisory role is not a prominent public function and Marsalek is a criminal fugitive rather than a PEP. The combination of a dissolved, insolvent entity with confirmed fraud findings, ongoing criminal proceedings and fugitive executives drives the high rating.
Registration
Legal name
Wirecard AG
Registry number
HRB 169227 (Amtsgericht München)
Jurisdiction
Germany (Bavaria)
Status
Insolvent and dissolved: preliminary insolvency administration ordered by Amtsgericht München on 29.06.2020; insolvency proceedings opened by decision of 25.08.2020 (Az. 1542 IN 1308/20), dissolving the company under § 263 AktG (register entry of 03.09.2020). Insolvency administrator: Dr. Michael Jaffé, Munich. The register entry itself still shows the legal entity as continuing ('aktiv'); no final deletion as of the register data dated 21.10.2026
Incorporated
2007-08-06 (registration in the commercial register at Amtsgericht München; company traces to a 1999 founding and entered the stock exchange via reverse IPO of InfoGenie AG)
Registered address
Humboldtstraße 8, 85609 Aschheim (registered 27.06.2022; previously Einsteinring 35, 85609 Aschheim — the address on the LEI record — and Bretonischer Ring 4, 85630 Grasbrunn)
LEI
529900A8LX4KL0YUTH71 (LEI registration status LAPSED; last GLEIF update 2020-11-13; entity status recorded as ACTIVE but non-conforming)
Sanctions (1)
Wirecard AG and its officers · OFAC SDN List and other OFAC sanctions lists (US); EU, UK and UN consolidated lists checked in the sources reviewed No match identified: an OFAC Sanctions List Search for 'Wirecard' returned an empty results table (SDN list last updated 11/9/2026). No Wirecard AG entity or officer is named on the EU, UK OFSI or UN lists in the sources reviewed; the entity appears only in regulatory, insolvency and court records
Politically exposed persons (1)
No PEP identified among Wirecard AG officers, directors or related parties
Adverse media (10)
2026-10-28mediumThe criminal trial of former CEO Markus Braun and two co-defendants (Stephan von Erffa, former head of accounting, and Oliver Bellenhaus, former head of the Dubai subsidiary) at Landgericht München I opened 8 December 2022 on charges including commercial gang fraud, breach of trust, accounting/balance-sheet falsification for 2016-2018 and market manipulation; alleged bank loans of about EUR 1.7 billion and bonds of about EUR 1.4 billion, with 2026 reports putting the alleged loss at about EUR 3 billion; Braun denies the charges Criminal proceedings — fraud, breach of trust, accounting manipulation (open investigation/proceedings) · Open criminal proceedings — no verdict as of 28 October 2026 (trial at its 289th hearing day); charges narrowed in February 2025 to support a verdict, which prosecutors said could still suffice for heavy sentences; Braun remains in pre-trial custody
2025-11-13mediumIn litigation arising from the Wirecard AG insolvency, the BGH held that shareholder damages claims based on misleading capital-markets disclosures are subordinated equity claims in the insolvency, overturning the Munich Higher Regional Court's decision that they ranked pari passu with other unsecured creditors — materially reducing dilution of ordinary creditor recoveries Insolvency litigation — creditor ranking · Confirmed judgment of the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH), Ninth Senate, 13 November 2025
2024-09-05highFormer Wirecard management board members, including former CEO Markus Braun, were ordered to pay a total of EUR 140 million in damages plus interest to insolvency administrator Dr. Michael Jaffé for breaches of fiduciary duties; a partial default judgment had already ordered former COO Jan Marsalek to pay EUR 140 million; two former supervisory board members sued were found not liable for lack of causality Civil liability judgment — director breaches of duty · Confirmed judicial finding (Munich Regional Court I, Case No. 5 HK O 17452/21); appeal/partial default judgment as noted
2023-06-01highJames Wardhana, Wirecard's international finance manager, was sentenced by Singapore's State Court in June 2023 to 21 months imprisonment, and Chai Ai Lim, Wirecard Asia's head of finance, to 10 months; Edo Kurniawan, head of accounting for Wirecard's Asia-Pacific operations, was accused of forged and backdated contracts to inflate profit Criminal enforcement — subsidiary officers (Singapore) · Confirmed criminal findings against subsidiary officers in Singapore
2022-05-05highThe annual financial statements of Wirecard AG as at 31 December 2017 and 31 December 2018 and the profit-appropriation resolutions were declared null and void in full: the balance sheets were significantly overvalued, Wirecard made no profits in 2017/2018 but considerable losses, and dividends of about EUR 22 million (2017) and EUR 25 million (2018) were paid on the void accounts, mainly to major shareholders such as MB Beteiligungs GmbH, Dr. Markus Braun's holding company Court finding — void accounts and dividends · Confirmed court ruling by Munich I Regional Court, upholding the insolvency administrator's November 2020 action
2020-08-25highInsolvency proceedings opened by Amtsgericht München (Az. 1542 IN 1308/20); the company was dissolved under § 263 AktG with effect from the opening decision; the entire management board was axed and provisional insolvency administration had run from 29.06.2020 Insolvency proceedings / dissolution · Confirmed court/insolvency finding
2020-08-05highFormer COO Jan Marsalek fled Germany in June 2020 and remains a key suspect in the Wirecard scandal; a September 2025 investigation reported him living in Moscow under a false identity, and he is alleged to have used Wirecard to supply Wagner and other Russian military and influence groups in the Middle East Criminal fugitive / alleged Russian intelligence ties · Confirmed fugitive status; wanted by Germany's BKA since 5 August 2020; Interpol red notice issued August 2020 at Germany's request
2020-06-26highUK FCA froze Wirecard Card Solutions Limited's business 26-30 June 2020 over safeguarding concerns; Singapore's MAS directed Wirecard's Singapore branch to stop payment services (September 2020); BaFin filed a criminal referral after Wirecard made misleading statements to investors during the KPMG special audit; BaFin president Felix Hufeld and deputy Elisabeth Roegele resigned over supervisory failures Regulatory enforcement — financial-conduct and money-laundering supervision · Confirmed regulatory actions against group entities
2020-06-25highWirecard AG filed for insolvency citing over-indebtedness after EUR 1.9 billion supposedly held in Asian trust accounts was found not to exist; it owed about EUR 3.2 billion in debt. The company had been a DAX member from September 2018 to August 2020 Insolvency / accounting fraud (corporate collapse) · Confirmed corporate collapse; insolvency proceedings opened 25.08.2020
2020-04-27highKPMG's special investigation (published 28 April 2020) could not verify the business behind the majority of Wirecard's 2016-2018 profits: TPA transaction data, contracts, escrow account statements and bank confirmations were not made available, TPA partners did not cooperate, and the board never delivered a final management representation letter Regulatory / audit finding — accounting manipulation · Confirmed special-audit finding (mandated by the Wirecard supervisory board)
Officers and owners (13)
Name
Role
Nationality
Dr. Markus Braun
Chief Executive Officer / Vorstand, Aug 2007 – Jul 2020 (resigned 19 June 2020); largest single shareholder (>7%)
Austrian
Jan Marsalek
Chief Operating Officer / Vorstand, May 2010 – Jul 2020 (dismissed/fled June 2020; fugitive)
Austrian
Burkhard Ley
Vorstand (CFO), Aug 2007 – Mar 2018
Rüdiger Trautmann
Vorstand, Aug 2007 – May 2010
Alexander von Knoop
Vorstand (CFO), Mar 2018 – Jul 2020 (still shown as active board member on the register)
Susanne Steidl
Vorstand (Chief Processing Officer), Mar 2018 – Jul 2020 (still shown as active board member on the register)
James H. Freis Jr.
Vorstand appointed 01.07.2020 with sole authority to represent the company (interim CEO); stepped down 11 September 2020
Stephan von Erffa
Prokurist (authorized signatory), Nov 2007 – Jul 2020; former head of accounting; co-defendant in the criminal trial
Oliver Bellenhaus
Former managing director of Wirecard's Dubai subsidiary; management board member; co-defendant who turned state's evidence
Thomas Eichelmann
Chairman of the supervisory board (at the time of the collapse)
Wulf Matthias
Former supervisory board member (chairman until 2020)
Tina Kleingarn
Former supervisory board member
Dr. Michael Jaffé
Insolvency administrator of Wirecard AG (appointed by Amtsgericht München)
Related entities (8)
Wirecard Bank AG (now WDB Abwicklungs AG i.L.) · German subsidiary with a banking licence; BaFin restricted account access during the collapse; most employees moved to Banco Santander and the bank entered a solvent wind-down after the November 2020 sale; renamed WDB Abwicklungs AG in liquidation, HRB 161178 HRB 161178 (Amtsgericht München)
Wirecard Technologies GmbH · Main operating subsidiary (LEI 529900Z54V2EA48D2Y27); its core European technology platform was sold to Banco Santander (contract mid-November 2020, completed 28 January 2021) HRB 200352 (Amtsgericht München)
Wirecard Sales International Holding GmbH · Group holding company in separate insolvency proceedings under the same administrator, Dr. Michael Jaffé HRB 187465 (Amtsgericht München)
Wirecard Acquiring & Issuing GmbH · Group company; sold Wirecard North America Inc. to Syncapay, Inc. on 22 October 2020 HRB 156848 (Amtsgericht München)
Wirecard Card Solutions Limited · British card-issuing subsidiary frozen by the UK FCA on 26-30 June 2020 over safeguarding concerns
Wirecard Payment Solutions Holdings Limited · Subsidiary of Wirecard AG per the GLEIF record (LEI 529900BWETZJRMZMRV03); other LEI-registered subsidiaries include Wirecard Processing FZ-LLC, CardSystems Middle East FZ-LLC (Dubai) and HERMES I Tickets
Wirecard North America Inc. · Former US unit (created 2017 from the Citi Prepaid Card Services acquisition), sold October 2020
Wirecard Technologies AG (deleted predecessor, distinct entity) · Earlier Wirecard entity (name history Wire Card AG → Wirecard Technologies AG), deleted from the register on 13.08.2012; a separate legal entity from the screened Wirecard AG — excluded from the screen as entity drift HRB 142427 (Amtsgericht München)
Namesakes excluded
1 matches could not be tied to this entity and were left out.
Garantex
Run a KYC screen on Garantex Europe OÜ in Estonia
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highGarantex Europe OÜ (renamed Kihonzi Buzhaga OÜ in the register before deletion; 'Invalid names: Garantex Europe OÜ')
High risk. (1) Sanctions: Garantex Europe OÜ (Estonian registry code 14850239) has been on the US OFAC SDN List since 5 April 2022 (CYBER4; RUSSIA-EO14024, with secondary-sanctions risk under Section 11 of E.O. 14024) and was re-designated under cyber authorities on 14 August 2025; it is also designated on the UK Sanctions List (RUS1421, asset freeze, trust services and director disqualification sanctions) since 4 May 2022, on the EU consolidated list since 24 February 2025 (Decision 2025/389, 16th sanctions package) and under Swiss SECO measures since March 2025. (2) Regulatory finding: the Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit found systemic AML deficiencies — over 90% of customers not identity-verified, failure to report suspicious transactions, funds moved through the company tied to crime — and the company surrendered its virtual-currency authorisation in February 2022 after processing over €5 billion in annual transactions. (3) Criminal charges: a US federal indictment unsealed 7 March 2025 charges its administrators with money-laundering conspiracy, IEEPA sanctions violations and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business; domains seized 6 March 2025 and over $26 million frozen. (4) Status: the Estonian legal entity was renamed Kihonzi Buzhaga OÜ and deleted from the commercial register on 20 March 2024, while the exchange operation continued via the successor exchange Grinex, itself designated by OFAC in August 2025. No PEP was identified among its people in the sources reviewed.
Registration
Legal name
Garantex Europe OÜ (renamed Kihonzi Buzhaga OÜ in the register before deletion; 'Invalid names: Garantex Europe OÜ')
Registry number
14850239
Jurisdiction
Estonia
Status
Deleted from the Estonian commercial register on 20 March 2024 (registered 18 November 2019); a deleted legal person has no persons with the right of representation and beneficial-owner history is not displayed
Incorporated
2019-11-18
Registered address
J. Poska tn 51a/1-3, Kesklinna linnaosa, Harju maakond, Tallinn 10150, Estonia (also Peterburi tee 47, Lasnamäe, Tallinn 11415, Estonia, on the OFAC record)
Sanctions (4)
Garantex Europe OÜ · US OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List Confirmed hit — entity GARANTEX EUROPE OU, programs CYBER4; RUSSIA-EO14024, matching Estonian Business Registration Number 14850239 (issued 18 Nov 2019) and both Tallinn addresses; aliases GARANTEX; websites garantex.io/garantex.org; listed BTC, ETH, USDT and TRX addresses; secondary sanctions risk per Section 11 of E.O. 14024 and 31 CFR 589.201. Originally designated 5 April 2022; re-designated under E.O. 13694, as amended by E.O. 14144 and E.O. 14306, on 14 August 2025 for facilitating ransomware actors and cybercriminals (over $100 million in illicit-linked transactions since 2019)
Garantex Europe OÜ · UK Sanctions List — The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (OFSI) Confirmed hit — GARANTEX EUROPE OU, Unique ID RUS1421, OFSI Group ID 15329, designated 4 May 2022; sanctions: asset freeze, trust services sanctions (imposed 21/03/2023) and director disqualification sanction (imposed 09/04/2025); statement of reasons: virtual currency exchange operating in the financial services sector in Russia, involved person supporting the Government of Russia; listed BTC, ETH and USDT addresses
Garantex (Garantex Europe OÜ) · EU consolidated financial sanctions list (Ukraine regime) Confirmed hit — Garantex, type of entity crypto-currency exchange, designated 24 February 2025 under Decision 2025/389 (Council Regulation in the 16th sanctions package, the EU's first designation of specific crypto addresses; six associated wallet addresses listed). The EU entry records place of registration Moscow, Russian Federation for the Garantex exchange; the Estonian entity Garantex Europe OÜ is OFAC's and the UK's listed name of the same operation
Garantex · Swiss SECO sanctions (Ordinance of 4 March 2022 on measures related to the situation in Ukraine, SR 946.231.176.72, annex 8) Hit for the Garantex exchange (listed 4 March 2025): asset freeze, travel ban, trade/financial/transport restrictions; recorded address Presnenskaya embankment 12, Moscow; page does not name the Estonian legal entity — treated as the same operation under its GARANTEX alias, listed with blockchain wallet addresses
Politically exposed persons (0)
None found.
Adverse media (6)
2026-10-02highUS FinCEN special measures identify Garantex as a sanctioned prolific money launderer for Russian cybercriminals that moved funds to successor exchange Grinex after the March 2025 US law-enforcement action, associating it with the OFAC-designated 'A7 Network' Regulatory special measures — money laundering · Reported on an aggregator page consolidating the FinCEN action
2025-08-14highOFAC re-designated Garantex Europe OU under E.O. 13694, as further amended, for directly facilitating ransomware actors and other cybercriminals (over $100 million in illicit-linked transactions since 2019), and concurrently designated successor Grinex, three Garantex executives and six associated companies in Russia and the Kyrgyz Republic; the State Department announced rewards of up to $5 million for Mira Serda and $1 million for other key Garantex leaders Sanctions re-designation and executive designations · Confirmed — OFAC re-designation in force
2025-03-18highAfter the multinational takedown, Tether froze approximately $28 million of the exchange's USDT; Garantex moved its customer base and funds to successor exchange Grinex, created by Garantex employees to support sanctions evasion Law-enforcement disruption / asset freeze · Reported — confirmed by Tether; Garantex announced it was ceasing operations and later moved customer funds to successor Grinex
2025-03-07highDOJ announced a coordinated operation with Germany and Finland against Garantex, which allegedly facilitated money laundering by transnational criminal organizations — including terrorist organizations — and sanctions violations, processing at least $96 billion in cryptocurrency since April 2019; on 6 March 2025 US authorities seized the domains Garantex.org, Garantex.io and Garantex.academy, German and Finnish authorities seized servers, and over $26 million in funds were frozen; administrators Besciokov and Mira Serda indicted in the Eastern District of Virginia; Garantex failed to register with FinCEN as a money transmitting business and redesigned operations to evade US sanctions, rotating wallets daily Criminal indictment / domain seizure — money laundering, sanctions evasion · Confirmed law-enforcement action; indictment is an allegation and defendants are presumed innocent
2022-04-05highOFAC designated Garantex (Garantex Europe OÜ, registry number 14850239) as a ransomware-enabling virtual currency exchange pursuant to E.O. 14024 for operating in the financial services sector of the Russian Federation economy, in a coordinated action with Germany's takedown of Hydra Market Sanctions designation — money laundering facilitation · Confirmed — OFAC designation in force and re-designated 2025
2022-03-10highEstonian FIU supervision proceedings identified systemic and systematic AML/CFT deficiencies at Garantex Europe OÜ: over 90% of customers subject to breach of the duty to verify identity; customers presented as natural persons that were legal persons serving other customers with turnover of about €20 million to €100 million; failure to systematically notify FIU of suspicious transactions; property moved through the company related to crime or wallets used by criminal offenders. The company was authorised for virtual currency services from 27 November 2020 to 24 February 2022; FIU Director Matis Mäeker said annual transactions exceeded €5 billion, largely with Russia and other high-risk countries, and that the revocation would otherwise have followed AML regulatory enforcement — licence surrendered · Confirmed regulatory finding — company surrendered its authorisation on 24 February 2022 after FIU supervision proceedings
Officers and owners (5)
Name
Role
Nationality
Aleksej Besciokov
Garantex's primary technical administrator — maintained infrastructure, reviewed and approved transactions; charged with money-laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to violate IEEPA (sanctions) and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business (indictment unsealed 7 March 2025, EDVA); arrested in India
Lithuanian (Russian resident)
Aleksandr Mira Serda (previously Aleksandr Ntifo-Siaw)
Garantex co-founder and chief commercial officer; charged with money-laundering conspiracy (indictment unsealed 7 March 2025, EDVA); US State Department reward offer of up to $5 million for his arrest
Russian (UAE resident)
Sergey Mendeleev
Garantex co-founder; shareholder of the Estonian entity (via Kihonzi Buzhaga OÜ records) until 10 March 2021; reportedly among the three Garantex executives designated by OFAC in August 2025; co-founded successor platform Exved
Stanislav Drugalev
Garantex co-founder; died in a car crash in 2021
Iryna Chernyavskaya
Related entities (4)
Kihonzi Buzhaga OÜ · Same Estonian legal entity (registry code 14850239) renamed after the Garantex Europe OÜ name became invalid; deleted from the register 20 March 2024; Sergey Mendeleev was its shareholder until 10 March 2021 14850239
Grinex · Successor cryptocurrency exchange created by Garantex employees to continue services and receive Garantex customer deposits after the March 2025 law-enforcement action; designated by OFAC on 14 August 2025
Exved · Successor payment platform co-founded by Sergey Mendeleev, sanctioned; reportedly works with InDeFi Bank to facilitate crypto-mediated trade subverting US sanctions on Russia
Hydra Market · Russia-based darknet market designated by OFAC on the same day (5 April 2022) as Garantex in the coordinated US/German action
Stripe
Run a KYC screen on Stripe, Inc. in the United States
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Risk rating
mediumSTRIPE, LLC (previous legal name STRIPE, INC.)
Registration is clean and verifiable: Stripe, Inc. is a Delaware entity (registry no. 4675506, incorporated 2009-04-13) that was renamed and converted to STRIPE, LLC effective 2026-01-02, LEI 549300CLHGIPTCYHQ143 issued/ACTIVE with fully corroborated validation, headquartered at 354 Oyster Point Blvd, South San Francisco, CA, and consolidated under new parent Stripe Global Holdings Inc. (LEI 254900VYCQ4K0SLSXF22). Sanctions screening is negative: OFAC Sanctions List Search for 'Stripe' returned no matches and the SDN data file contains no 'Stripe' or 'Collison' entries; no officers are politically exposed persons (founders and board are private-sector executives). Adverse media is not clean but bounded: one resolved state regulatory settlement (Massachusetts AG, 2020, $120,000 over inadequate risk monitoring that let the PlexCoin fraud proceed - regulatory finding, severity high but closed), an open FTC debanking warning letter to CEO Patrick Collison (March 2026, no enforcement action yet), one ongoing consumer privacy class action that survived dismissal, open patent and fraud/conversion suits, merchant frozen-funds disputes (BBB logged 1,727 complaints over three years), and an allegation in an FTC receivership that Stripe violated an asset-freeze order. No criminal findings, no sanctions designation, no money-laundering conviction. The volume and variety of open civil and regulatory matters against a systemically significant payments company - plus regulatory scrutiny around its Bridge trust-bank expansion - supports a medium, not low, rating.
Registration
Legal name
STRIPE, LLC (previous legal name STRIPE, INC.)
Registry number
4675506
Jurisdiction
United States - Delaware (US-DE)
Status
ACTIVE (LEI registration status ISSUED; last update 2026-01-12, next renewal 2027-01-12)
Incorporated
2009-04-13
Registered address
C/O The Corporation Trust Company, Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, Delaware (US-DE), 19801 United States
LEI
549300CLHGIPTCYHQ143
Sanctions (2)
Stripe, Inc. / Stripe, LLC · OFAC SDN List and all other OFAC-administered sanctions lists (Sanctions List Search) No match - name search for 'Stripe' returned an empty Lookup Results table (SDN list last updated 11/9/2026)
Patrick Collison; John Collison (founders/officers) · OFAC Specially Designated Nationals list (full data file, 2026-11-11 retrieval) No entry for 'COLLISON' or 'STRIPE' in the SDN data file
Politically exposed persons (1)
Patrick CollisonCofounder and CEO, Stripe, Inc. - holds/held no prominent public function himself; flagged only as a potential close associate of a PEP: in 2026 he co-founded the Rhine Group, a policy forum and think tank, with former Italian prime minister Mario Draghi (a PEP by virtue of having held the prominent public functions of Italian Prime Minister and ECB President). No other Stripe officer, director or owner screened qualified as a PEP, family member of one, or close associate of one.
Adverse media (11)
2026-10-22lowBBB logged 1,727 complaints against Stripe over three years (692 in the last 12 months), predominantly concerning release of funds and account suspension/termination, with merchants reporting balances held indefinitely Consumer/merchant complaints (Better Business Bureau) · Ongoing pattern - BBB complaints logged over a recent three-year period
2026-03-26mediumFTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson sent a warning letter to Stripe CEO Patrick Collison stating that acts or practices to deplatform customers or deny access to financial services inconsistent with terms of service or reasonable expectations may violate the FTC Act and could lead to investigation and enforcement Regulatory warning letter - debanking / FTC Act Section 5 · Open - warning letter only; no formal FTC enforcement action as of mid-2026
2025-12-12mediumAutoscribe asserts U.S. Patent Nos. 11,620,621 and 12,462,234 against Stripe; case remains active Civil litigation - patent infringement (Autoscribe Corporation v. Stripe, Inc., No. 1:25-cv-01498, D. Del.) · Open - amended complaint filed April 2026; Stripe counterclaimed June 2026
2025-12-04mediumStripe froze roughly $1.45M held for nonprofit donation platform Flipcause, citing regulatory compliance concerns and Mastercard warning letters; bankruptcy counsel moved to compel release of about $790,000; Stripe cited potential exposure of up to $6M in chargebacks and fines Merchant dispute - frozen funds in bankruptcy (Flipcause Chapter 11) · Open - Stripe terminated services Dec 4, 2025 and froze ~$1.45M; objection hearing set for February 2026
2025-05-01mediumCourt-appointed receiver alleged Stripe violated an asset-freeze order by processing an improper withdrawal and failed to transfer about $39,720 to the estate, seeking compliance and possible sanctions Allegation - alleged violation of FTC asset-freeze order (Empire Holdings Group LLC receivership) · Open allegation in FTC receivership - unproven allegation in a May 2025 receiver motion
2025-01-01mediumAlleges fraud, conversion, and violations of federal business-practices laws in how Stripe handles customer funds Civil litigation - fraud/conversion over customer funds (Riles v. Stripe, Inc., No. 3:25-cv-09120) · Open - federal class action filed 2025 in N.D. Cal.
2024-08-14mediumThe United States filed an ex parte application for an order pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1782(a) against Stripe, Inc. in the Northern District of California; Magistrate Judge Kandis A. Westmore presiding Civil matter - U.S. government 28 U.S.C. 1782(a) ex parte application (United States of America v. Stripe, Inc., No. 4:24-mc-80213, N.D. Cal.) · Open civil case (docket last updated 10/13/2024); Stripe filed a response 9/27/2024
2024-05-01lowPlaintiff alleges Crumbl embedded Stripe's web-tracking technology to capture personal data without consent; frames Crumbl as aiding and conspiring with Stripe to violate CIPA Civil litigation - tracking technology implicated (Lockhart v. Crumbl, LLC, No. 4:24-cv-02607) · Pending - suit against merchant Crumbl, not Stripe directly; no merits rulings as of mid-2026
2021-07-28mediumPutative class alleges Stripe collected personal information including purchase data from visitors to merchant websites and shared it with other merchants and third parties under CIPA, Florida and Washington wiretap statutes; privacy, invasion-of-privacy and 'unfair' UCL claims survived the July 28, 2021 ruling Civil litigation - consumer privacy class action (Silver v. Stripe Inc., No. 4:20-CV-08196-YGR) · Ongoing - wiretap claims dismissed but privacy and UCL claims survived motion to dismiss; putative class action pending in N.D. Cal.
2021-01-13lowPatent holder accused Stripe and Shopify of infringing three payment-escrow patents; Federal Circuit held the patents claimed only an abstract idea and were ineligible under 35 U.S.C. 101 - no finding against Stripe Civil litigation - patent infringement, dismissed (Boom! Payments, Inc. v. Stripe, Inc., No. 2020-1274) · Resolved in Stripe's favor - Federal Circuit affirmed dismissal Jan 13, 2021; patents invalidated under Alice
2020-09-18highMassachusetts AG announced Stripe, Inc. will pay $120,000 to resolve allegations that its risk monitoring and fraud prevention practices violated state consumer protection law by processing payments for Dominic Lacroix's PlexCoin (PlexCorp), a fraudulent and unregistered cryptocurrency offering (~$15M raised; at least 22 Massachusetts investors defrauded); settlement required enhanced security protocols, employee training and cooperation with investigations Regulatory settlement - consumer protection (processing payments for cryptocurrency fraud scheme) · Resolved - assurance of discontinuance filed in Suffolk Superior Court; AG agreed not to pursue civil action
Officers and owners (21)
Name
Role
Nationality
Patrick Collison
Cofounder and CEO; board member
Irish
John Collison
Cofounder and President; board member
Irish
Will Gaybrick
President, Technology and Business
Trish Walsh
General Counsel
Eileen O'Mara
Vice Chair
Jeff Titterton
Chief Marketing Officer
Steffan Tomlinson
Chief Financial Officer
Rob McIntosh
Chief People Officer
Tyler Bryson
Chief Revenue Officer
Claire Hughes Johnson
Corporate Advisor
Bill Winters, CBE
Independent Director - Group Chief Executive, Standard Chartered
Christa Davies
Lead Independent Director - Former CFO, Aon
Kevin Kelly
Independent Director - Partner, CIO, HRTG Partners
Luciana Lixandru
Independent Director - Partner, Sequoia Capital
Matthew Huang
Independent Director - Cofounder, Paradigm
Parker Conrad
Independent Director - CEO, Rippling
Francis Ryan
CEO and Director, Stripe Payments Company (California-registered operating entity)
Leland Rodger
Director and CFO, Stripe Payments Company
Mary Park
Secretary, Stripe Payments Company
Cassi Newell
Assistant Secretary, Stripe Payments Company
Patricia Walsh
Director, Stripe Payments Company
Related entities (4)
Stripe Payments Company · Operating subsidiary (payments processor); LEI 549300YK0Z4SWKNYPQ72; incorporated 2013-08-15 in Delaware; ultimately consolidated by Stripe Global Holdings Inc. from 2026-01-02 5384152
Stripe Payments Company (California foreign registration) · Stock corporation registered in California as an online payment processing business (registered agent C T Corporation System; principal office 354 Oyster Point Blvd, South San Francisco, CA 94080) 3631472
Stripe Global Holdings Inc. · Direct and ultimate parent - Stripe, LLC (LEI 549300CLHGIPTCYHQ143) is directly and ultimately consolidated by it (relationship active from 2026-01-02); LEI 254900VYCQ4K0SLSXF22; LEI registration 2025-12-01; same HQ 354 Oyster Point Blvd, South San Francisco
Bridge Ventures LLC (Bridge National Trust Bank, N.A.) · Subsidiary - applied to the OCC for a national trust bank charter tied to Stripe's over-$1 billion acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure firm Bridge Network; OCC granted preliminary conditional approval on 2026-02-12
An example run of the KYC screening agent. The request sends the agent ID, an input such as "Run a KYC screen on Greensill Capital in the United Kingdom" and an effort level. The response is the screen as JSON, with a source URL on every finding.
import os, time
from nimble_python import Nimble
nimble = Nimble(api_key=os.environ["NIMBLE_API_KEY"])
agent_id ="wsa_7cb184ce40994c75a598a23f24cccc84"# Nimble's KYC screening agent
run = nimble.agents.runs.create(
agent_id,
input="Run a KYC screen on Greensill Capital in the United Kingdom",
effort="high",)while run.is_active:
time.sleep(10)
run = nimble.agents.runs.get(run.id, agent_id=agent_id)
result = nimble.agents.runs.result(run.id, agent_id=agent_id)
print(result.output.content)
import Nimble from"@nimble-way/nimble-js";const nimble =new Nimble({ apiKey: process.env.NIMBLE_API_KEY });const agentId ="wsa_7cb184ce40994c75a598a23f24cccc84";// Nimble's KYC screening agentlet run =await nimble.agents.runs.create(agentId,{
input:"Run a KYC screen on Greensill Capital in the United Kingdom",
effort:"high",});while(run.is_active){awaitnew Promise((r)=> setTimeout(r,10000));
run =await nimble.agents.runs.get(run.id,{ agent_id: agentId });}const result =await nimble.agents.runs.result(run.id,{ agent_id: agentId });
console.log(result.output.content);
AGENT_ID=wsa_7cb184ce40994c75a598a23f24cccc84 # Nimble's KYC screening agent
RUN_ID=$(nimble agents:runs create \--agent-id"$AGENT_ID"\--input'Run a KYC screen on Greensill Capital in the United Kingdom'\--effort high |jq-r.id)# repeat while "is_active" is true, then read the resultnimble agents:runs get --agent-id"$AGENT_ID"--run-id"$RUN_ID"nimble agents:runs result --agent-id"$AGENT_ID"--run-id"$RUN_ID"
AGENT_ID=wsa_7cb184ce40994c75a598a23f24cccc84 # Nimble's KYC screening agentcurl-X POST "https://sdk.nimbleway.com/v2/agents/$AGENT_ID/runs"\--header"Authorization: Bearer $NIMBLE_API_KEY"\--header'Content-Type: application/json'\--data'{"input":"Run a KYC screen on Greensill Capital in the United Kingdom","effort":"high"}'# poll until is_active is false, then read the resultcurl"https://sdk.nimbleway.com/v2/agents/$AGENT_ID/runs/$RUN_ID"--header"Authorization: Bearer $NIMBLE_API_KEY"curl"https://sdk.nimbleway.com/v2/agents/$AGENT_ID/runs/$RUN_ID/result"--header"Authorization: Bearer $NIMBLE_API_KEY"
2Response example
Recorded November 11, 2026.
{"run":{"id":"task_run_1fb36eb9541e4d7eb9e33daa2c9d49e6","status":"completed","effort":"high","started_at":"2026-11-11T10:38:20.511177Z","completed_at":"2026-11-11T10:40:58.803517Z"},"output":{"type":"json","content":{"pep":[{"name":"David Cameron","position":"Former UK Prime Minister; serving as an adviser to Greensill at the time of the collapse (reported 5 March 2021)","source_url":"https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/05/credit-suisse-winds-down-10bn-in-funds-as-greensill-bank-prepares-for-insolvency"}],"people":[{"name":"Alexander David Greensill (Lex Greensill)","role":"Person with significant control (Active, notified 6 April 2016; nature of control: has significant influence or control over the trustees of a trust; DOB December 1976, British); also Director 2 July 2012 - 17 June 2026","source_url":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173/persons-with-significant-control","nationality":"British"},{"name":"Peter Edward Greensill","role":"Director (2 July 2012 - 22 January 2018); DOB September 1981","source_url":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173/officers","nationality":"Australian"},{"name":"Jason Richard Alexander Austin","role":"Director (2 July 2012 - 21 June 2019) and Secretary (2 July 2012 - 16 September 2015); DOB March 1968","source_url":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173/officers","nationality":"British"}],"sanctions":[{"list":"No match identified","match":"No Greensill entity or officer found on the UK sanctions list in the sources reviewed; the entity appears in regulatory/insolvency records only","party":"Greensill Capital (UK) Limited","source_url":null}],"input_name":"Greensill Capital","risk_rating":"high","registration":{"lei":"2138004D9J9DZUANAI93 (LEI registration LAPSED, last updated 2025-03-29)","status":"In Administration (joint administrators Chris Laverty, Russell Simpson and Will Stagg of Grant Thornton UK LLP appointed 8 March 2021; Russell Simpson replaced Trevor O'Sullivan as administrator pursuant to an order of the High Court dated 27 June 2022)","legal_name":"GREENSILL CAPITAL (UK) LIMITED","source_url":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173","jurisdiction":"United Kingdom (England & Wales)","registry_number":"08126173","incorporation_date":"2012-07-02","registered_address":"C/O Grant Thornton UK Advisory & Tax LLP, 11th Floor Landmark St Peters Square, 1 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 4PB"},"adverse_media":[{"date":"2021-03-08","status":"Confirmed regulatory/insolvency finding","summary":"Greensill Capital (UK) Limited collapsed into administration in March 2021 with liabilities of more than £1.6 billion (administration entered 8 March 2021)","category":"Insolvency/corporate collapse","severity":"high","source_url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/lex-greensill-to-be-disqualified-from-acting-as-a-company-director-in-the-uk-for-nine-years"},{"date":"2026-06-04","status":"Confirmed - disqualification undertaking accepted by the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on 2 June 2026; ban effective 23 June 2026 until June 2035","summary":"Lex Greensill agreed to a nine-year UK director disqualification after an Insolvency Service investigation: in late 2020 he caused the companies to enter transactions with Katerra that removed legal protections from the Credit Suisse (Lux) Supply Chain Finance Fund's investment, and caused or allowed Greensill Capital (UK) Limited to use $440 million received in November 2020 for purposes other than redeeming notes owed to the fund, causing a $440 million loss; conduct breached his Companies Act 2006 duty of reasonable care, skill and diligence","category":"Regulatory enforcement - director disqualification","severity":"high","source_url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/lex-greensill-to-be-disqualified-from-acting-as-a-company-director-in-the-uk-for-nine-years"},{"date":"2024-03-07","status":"Confirmed regulatory enforcement action","summary":"The Insolvency Service commenced director disqualification proceedings against Alexander (Lex) Greensill, seeking disqualification of up to 15 years, in respect of his conduct as a director of Greensill Capital (UK) Limited and Greensill Limited (investigations began May 2022; a six-week trial was due to begin 8 June 2026 but ended via the disqualification undertaking)","category":"Regulatory enforcement - director disqualification proceedings","severity":"high","source_url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/outcome-of-investigation-into-the-directors-of-the-collapsed-greensill-group"}],"risk_rationale":"High risk: the entity is in administration (appointed 8 March 2021) with liabilities exceeding £1.6 billion; the Insolvency Service found conduct breaching directors' duties under the Companies Act 2006 and founder Lex Greensill agreed to a nine-year director disqualification (effective 23 June 2026 until June 2035) after transactions removed legal protections from a Credit Suisse fund's investment and $440 million was diverted, causing a $440 million loss to the fund; the LEI registration is lapsed. No sanctions or PEP hit on the entity itself.","related_entities":[{"name":"Greensill Capital Management Company (UK) Limited","relation":"UK group company; entered administration on the same date (8 March 2021) as Greensill Capital (UK) Limited; was also the original name of Greensill Capital (UK) Limited from 2 July to 18 July 2012","registry_number":null},{"name":"Greensill Limited","relation":"UK group company; Lex Greensill was also its director; entered Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation on 30 July 2021","registry_number":"11344883"},{"name":"Greensill Capital Pty Limited","relation":"Australian parent company to the Greensill Group; entered administration in Australia on 9 March 2021 and liquidation on 22 April 2021","registry_number":null}],"namesakes_excluded":null},"confidence":"high","sources":[{"url":"https://theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/05/credit-suisse-winds-down-10bn-in-funds-as-greensill-bank-prepares-for-insolvency","title":"https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/05/credit-suisse-winds-down-10bn-in-funds-as-greensill-bank-prepares-for-insolvency"},{"url":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173/persons-with-significant-control","title":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173/persons-with-significant-control"},{"url":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173/officers","title":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173/officers"},{"url":"https://greensill.com/","title":"https://greensill.com/"},{"url":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173","title":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173"}]}}
This is the context an AI agent can use to call the KYC screening agent: its ID, the skill it already runs with, the request options and an example response. The same file is at kyc-screening-agent.md.
Agent instructions/KYC screening
---type:"nimble-agent"agent:"kyc-screening-2d6c1e76"agent_id:"wsa_7cb184ce40994c75a598a23f24cccc84"description:"Screen a company: registry details, officers and owners, and checks for sanctions, politically exposed persons and bad press."use_when:"Preparing a KYC or KYB file on a business: registration, officers and owners, sanctions, PEPs and adverse media."default_effort:"high"cost_per_run:"$0.50 at high effort"---# Nimble: KYC screening agent
Screen a company: registry details, officers and owners, and checks for sanctions, politically exposed persons and bad press.
## Agent instructions
Run this ready-made agent by its ID. It already carries the research skill and output schema below, so the input only needs the business and the country where it is registered.
- Agent page: [KYC screening agent](https://online.nimbleway.com/web-search-agents/wsa_7cb184ce40994c75a598a23f24cccc84)
- Agent ID: `wsa_7cb184ce40994c75a598a23f24cccc84`
- Default effort: `high`
- Docs: [Web Search Agents](https://docs.nimbleway.com/nimble-sdk/web-search-agents/overview)## Skill
Where KYC data lives:
- Registration: the national company registry (UK Companies House, US state Secretaries of State, OpenCorporates as an
index) and GLEIF for the LEI. An operating brand can map to several legal entities; the main operating company is the one
that trades under the name. A branch is not a separate entity.
- Officers and owners: registry officer lists and beneficial ownership registers (UK PSC register, EU UBO registers where
public).
- Sanctions: OFAC SDN, UK OFSI consolidated list, EU consolidated financial sanctions list, UN list. A name match is not a
hit until date of birth, nationality, address or registry number line up.
- PEP: a politically exposed person holds or held a prominent public function (head of state, minister, senior
official, judge, military leader, state-owned enterprise executive) or is a close family member or associate of one.
- Adverse media: enforcement actions, fines, fraud, money-laundering or corruption allegations, sanctions evasion and
lawsuits. Regulator sites and court records outrank press. Severity is high for criminal or regulatory findings,
medium for open investigations or civil suits, low for unproven allegations.
- Risk rating: low, medium or high, from the items above.
Pitfalls: namesakes are common in sanctions and media searches. Drop what cannot be tied to the entity and count it as
excluded.
Citations and evidence:
- source_url is one full public https URL: the page the value was read on. Never an internal file path or source id. A
value from two pages is two values.
- as_of is the date the source states or was published, not today's date.
- A value nobody published is null, listed in missing_fields. Not an estimate from memory.
- Entity drift is the most common error: a namesake, a parent, a subsidiary or a similarly named company. Match on domain,
registry number, HQ city or ticker before using a page.
## Request options
- `input` (string, required): the business to screen and the country where it is registered; add the registration number if you have it. Example: `Run a KYC screen on Greensill Capital in the United Kingdom`
- `effort` (string): `low`, `medium`, `high` or `x-high`. Defaults to `high`. The examples on the page ran at `high`.
## Request shape
Call `POST https://sdk.nimbleway.com/v2/agents/wsa_7cb184ce40994c75a598a23f24cccc84/runs` with your Nimble API key. Poll `GET .../runs/{run_id}` until `is_active` is false, then read `GET .../runs/{run_id}/result`.
```json{"input":"Run a KYC screen on Greensill Capital in the United Kingdom","effort":"high"}```### Python```pythonimport os, time
from nimble_python import Nimble
nimble = Nimble(api_key=os.environ["NIMBLE_API_KEY"])
agent_id ="wsa_7cb184ce40994c75a598a23f24cccc84"# Nimble's KYC screening agent
run = nimble.agents.runs.create(
agent_id,
input="Run a KYC screen on Greensill Capital in the United Kingdom",
effort="high",)while run.is_active:
time.sleep(10)
run = nimble.agents.runs.get(run.id, agent_id=agent_id)
result = nimble.agents.runs.result(run.id, agent_id=agent_id)
print(result.output.content)```### TypeScript```typescriptimport Nimble from"@nimble-way/nimble-js";const nimble =new Nimble({ apiKey: process.env.NIMBLE_API_KEY });const agentId ="wsa_7cb184ce40994c75a598a23f24cccc84";// Nimble's KYC screening agentlet run =await nimble.agents.runs.create(agentId,{
input:"Run a KYC screen on Greensill Capital in the United Kingdom",
effort:"high",});while(run.is_active){awaitnew Promise((r)=> setTimeout(r,10000));
run =await nimble.agents.runs.get(run.id,{ agent_id: agentId });}const result =await nimble.agents.runs.result(run.id,{ agent_id: agentId });
console.log(result.output.content);```### cURL```sh
AGENT_ID=wsa_7cb184ce40994c75a598a23f24cccc84 # Nimble's KYC screening agentcurl-X POST "https://sdk.nimbleway.com/v2/agents/$AGENT_ID/runs"\--header"Authorization: Bearer $NIMBLE_API_KEY"\--header'Content-Type: application/json'\--data'{"input":"Run a KYC screen on Greensill Capital in the United Kingdom","effort":"high"}'# poll until is_active is false, then read the resultcurl"https://sdk.nimbleway.com/v2/agents/$AGENT_ID/runs/$RUN_ID"--header"Authorization: Bearer $NIMBLE_API_KEY"curl"https://sdk.nimbleway.com/v2/agents/$AGENT_ID/runs/$RUN_ID/result"--header"Authorization: Bearer $NIMBLE_API_KEY"```### CLI```sh
AGENT_ID=wsa_7cb184ce40994c75a598a23f24cccc84 # Nimble's KYC screening agent
RUN_ID=$(nimble agents:runs create \--agent-id"$AGENT_ID"\--input'Run a KYC screen on Greensill Capital in the United Kingdom'\--effort high |jq-r.id)# repeat while "is_active" is true, then read the resultnimble agents:runs get --agent-id"$AGENT_ID"--run-id"$RUN_ID"nimble agents:runs result --agent-id"$AGENT_ID"--run-id"$RUN_ID"```## Response data
The result has `run` and `output`. The screen is in `output.content`: `risk_rating` (low, medium or high) and `risk_rationale`; `registration` with `legal_name`, `registry_number`, `jurisdiction`, `status`, `incorporation_date`, `registered_address`, `lei` and `source_url`; `people` (officers and owners), `sanctions`, `pep`, `adverse_media` (with `severity`, `category`, `status`, `date`) and `related_entities`; `namesakes_excluded` counts dropped matches. `output.sources` lists the pages read and `output.trust` grades confidence per claim. Example (Greensill Capital, every list trimmed to 3 items, 5 sources):
```json{"run":{"id":"task_run_1fb36eb9541e4d7eb9e33daa2c9d49e6","status":"completed","effort":"high","started_at":"2026-11-11T10:38:20.511177Z","completed_at":"2026-11-11T10:40:58.803517Z"},"output":{"type":"json","content":{"pep":[{"name":"David Cameron","position":"Former UK Prime Minister; serving as an adviser to Greensill at the time of the collapse (reported 5 March 2021)","source_url":"https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/05/credit-suisse-winds-down-10bn-in-funds-as-greensill-bank-prepares-for-insolvency"}],"people":[{"name":"Alexander David Greensill (Lex Greensill)","role":"Person with significant control (Active, notified 6 April 2016; nature of control: has significant influence or control over the trustees of a trust; DOB December 1976, British); also Director 2 July 2012 - 17 June 2026","source_url":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173/persons-with-significant-control","nationality":"British"},{"name":"Peter Edward Greensill","role":"Director (2 July 2012 - 22 January 2018); DOB September 1981","source_url":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173/officers","nationality":"Australian"},{"name":"Jason Richard Alexander Austin","role":"Director (2 July 2012 - 21 June 2019) and Secretary (2 July 2012 - 16 September 2015); DOB March 1968","source_url":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173/officers","nationality":"British"}],"sanctions":[{"list":"No match identified","match":"No Greensill entity or officer found on the UK sanctions list in the sources reviewed; the entity appears in regulatory/insolvency records only","party":"Greensill Capital (UK) Limited","source_url":null}],"input_name":"Greensill Capital","risk_rating":"high","registration":{"lei":"2138004D9J9DZUANAI93 (LEI registration LAPSED, last updated 2025-03-29)","status":"In Administration (joint administrators Chris Laverty, Russell Simpson and Will Stagg of Grant Thornton UK LLP appointed 8 March 2021; Russell Simpson replaced Trevor O'Sullivan as administrator pursuant to an order of the High Court dated 27 June 2022)","legal_name":"GREENSILL CAPITAL (UK) LIMITED","source_url":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173","jurisdiction":"United Kingdom (England & Wales)","registry_number":"08126173","incorporation_date":"2012-07-02","registered_address":"C/O Grant Thornton UK Advisory & Tax LLP, 11th Floor Landmark St Peters Square, 1 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 4PB"},"adverse_media":[{"date":"2021-03-08","status":"Confirmed regulatory/insolvency finding","summary":"Greensill Capital (UK) Limited collapsed into administration in March 2021 with liabilities of more than £1.6 billion (administration entered 8 March 2021)","category":"Insolvency/corporate collapse","severity":"high","source_url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/lex-greensill-to-be-disqualified-from-acting-as-a-company-director-in-the-uk-for-nine-years"},{"date":"2026-06-04","status":"Confirmed - disqualification undertaking accepted by the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on 2 June 2026; ban effective 23 June 2026 until June 2035","summary":"Lex Greensill agreed to a nine-year UK director disqualification after an Insolvency Service investigation: in late 2020 he caused the companies to enter transactions with Katerra that removed legal protections from the Credit Suisse (Lux) Supply Chain Finance Fund's investment, and caused or allowed Greensill Capital (UK) Limited to use $440 million received in November 2020 for purposes other than redeeming notes owed to the fund, causing a $440 million loss; conduct breached his Companies Act 2006 duty of reasonable care, skill and diligence","category":"Regulatory enforcement - director disqualification","severity":"high","source_url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/lex-greensill-to-be-disqualified-from-acting-as-a-company-director-in-the-uk-for-nine-years"},{"date":"2024-03-07","status":"Confirmed regulatory enforcement action","summary":"The Insolvency Service commenced director disqualification proceedings against Alexander (Lex) Greensill, seeking disqualification of up to 15 years, in respect of his conduct as a director of Greensill Capital (UK) Limited and Greensill Limited (investigations began May 2022; a six-week trial was due to begin 8 June 2026 but ended via the disqualification undertaking)","category":"Regulatory enforcement - director disqualification proceedings","severity":"high","source_url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/outcome-of-investigation-into-the-directors-of-the-collapsed-greensill-group"}],"risk_rationale":"High risk: the entity is in administration (appointed 8 March 2021) with liabilities exceeding £1.6 billion; the Insolvency Service found conduct breaching directors' duties under the Companies Act 2006 and founder Lex Greensill agreed to a nine-year director disqualification (effective 23 June 2026 until June 2035) after transactions removed legal protections from a Credit Suisse fund's investment and $440 million was diverted, causing a $440 million loss to the fund; the LEI registration is lapsed. No sanctions or PEP hit on the entity itself.","related_entities":[{"name":"Greensill Capital Management Company (UK) Limited","relation":"UK group company; entered administration on the same date (8 March 2021) as Greensill Capital (UK) Limited; was also the original name of Greensill Capital (UK) Limited from 2 July to 18 July 2012","registry_number":null},{"name":"Greensill Limited","relation":"UK group company; Lex Greensill was also its director; entered Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation on 30 July 2021","registry_number":"11344883"},{"name":"Greensill Capital Pty Limited","relation":"Australian parent company to the Greensill Group; entered administration in Australia on 9 March 2021 and liquidation on 22 April 2021","registry_number":null}],"namesakes_excluded":null},"confidence":"high","sources":[{"url":"https://theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/05/credit-suisse-winds-down-10bn-in-funds-as-greensill-bank-prepares-for-insolvency","title":"https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/05/credit-suisse-winds-down-10bn-in-funds-as-greensill-bank-prepares-for-insolvency"},{"url":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173/persons-with-significant-control","title":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173/persons-with-significant-control"},{"url":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173/officers","title":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173/officers"},{"url":"https://greensill.com/","title":"https://greensill.com/"},{"url":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173","title":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08126173"}]}}```
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Former UK Prime Minister; serving as an adviser to Greensill at the time of the collapse (reported 5 March 2021)
Regulatory enforcement - director disqualification · Confirmed - disqualification undertaking accepted by the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on 2 June 2026; ban effective 23 June 2026 until June 2035
