KYB snapshot · FR · Verified 2026-05-07
Screened against 5 sanctions lists on 2026-05-07.
French companies are registered through INSEE, which maintains the SIRENE database — every active legal entity has a unique SIREN identifier (9 digits) and one or more SIRET identifiers (14 digits, identifying each establishment). Filings flow through local Greffes (commercial court registries) and are aggregated by INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle), which since 2023 publishes structured beneficial-ownership data through its open-data API.
French financial-services firms additionally appear in the AMF (Autorité des Marchés Financiers) register and the ACPR (Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution) for banking and insurance. SONAR's French pipeline cross-checks INSEE/SIRENE basic registration against INPI UBO records and EU Consolidated, OFAC SDN, and UN Security Council sanctions lists.
How SONAR's screening works. Every screening runs against the OFAC SDN, EU Consolidated Sanctions, United Nations Security Council, UK OFSI, Swiss SECO, Australian DFAT, Canadian OSFI, and World Bank Debarred sanctions lists. Sanctions data is refreshed every four hours from each authority's source feed. Politically exposed person (PEP) matching uses the OpenSanctions PEP dataset (CC BY 4.0) covering more than 120,000 active and historical politically exposed individuals across heads of state, cabinet ministers, parliamentarians, judiciary, central bankers, military leaders, state-owned enterprise executives, and their close associates and family.
ICIJ Offshore Leaks screening cross-checks the subject and any extracted directors or beneficial owners against the consolidated database of leaked offshore-finance records from the Panama Papers (2016), Paradise Papers (2017), Bahamas Leaks (2016), Offshore Leaks (2013), and Pandora Papers (2021) — totalling more than 785,000 named entities, individuals, and addresses. A match in the ICIJ corpus is not by itself evidence of wrongdoing — many legitimate offshore structures appear — but flags the subject for enhanced due diligence. Adverse-media monitoring runs in parallel across English plus 11 additional languages, prioritising regulator announcements, court filings, and established business press over user-generated content.
Cross-checked against the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database (Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Pandora Papers, Bahamas Leaks, Offshore Leaks).
Entity match: No match
Compiled from public sources by SONAR's automated KYB pipeline. Last screened: 2026-05-07T22:16:40.076171+00:00. Page rendered: 2026-05-07.
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