Why AML & KYC Are Difficult for Professional Service Firms
Professional service firms operate within complex corporate structures and cross-border transactions. Regulators expect financial-institution-level compliance, yet many firms still rely on fragmented tools, spreadsheets, or legacy KYC systems.
How Professional Service Firms use Steward
Deliver a seamless KYC online experience through configurable onboarding workflows. Collect documents, verify identity, and complete AML screening within a single secure KYC portal.
Screen clients against global sanctions lists, PEP databases, and adverse media. Using AI in AML, Steward reduces false positives and provides contextual analysis for faster compliance decisions.
Advanced AML AI models synthesise screening results, jurisdictional risk, client type, and transaction exposure into a clear, explainable risk score.
Steward combines AI KYC verification with KYB checks to map beneficial ownership structures instantly. Our AI identifies UBOs, verifies directors, and validates corporate registrations.
Our automated AML engine monitors sanctions, ownership changes, and adverse media. Trigger events prompt reviews, ensuring ongoing compliance.
Typical Professional Service Firm needs
Trusted by service providers supporting complex investor risk
Document-first onboarding that removes blockers, even for complex structures.
“Steward’s document-first onboarding quickly extracts required information, flagging gaps, and removing blockers, even for complex structures.”
Less review time, stronger audit defensibility, higher-value work.
“Steward cuts manual review time, improves decision consistency, and strengthens audit defensibility, freeing compliance teams to focus on higher-value work.”
One fund became our entire portfolio on Steward.
“What started with one fund led us to move our entire portfolio to Steward, delivering seamless, AI-powered onboarding with a highly responsive team.”
Document-first onboarding that removes blockers, even for complex structures.
“Steward’s document-first onboarding quickly extracts required information, flagging gaps, and removing blockers, even for complex structures.”
Less review time, stronger audit defensibility, higher-value work.
“Steward cuts manual review time, improves decision consistency, and strengthens audit defensibility, freeing compliance teams to focus on higher-value work.”
One fund became our entire portfolio on Steward.
“What started with one fund led us to move our entire portfolio to Steward, delivering seamless, AI-powered onboarding with a highly responsive team.”
Document-first onboarding that removes blockers, even for complex structures.
“Steward’s document-first onboarding quickly extracts required information, flagging gaps, and removing blockers, even for complex structures.”
Less review time, stronger audit defensibility, higher-value work.
“Steward cuts manual review time, improves decision consistency, and strengthens audit defensibility, freeing compliance teams to focus on higher-value work.”
One fund became our entire portfolio on Steward.
“What started with one fund led us to move our entire portfolio to Steward, delivering seamless, AI-powered onboarding with a highly responsive team.”
Getting started
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Start onboarding your first client in less than 24 hours, with compliance built in from day one.
Implement your own compliance standards and processes, tailored to your compliance program.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Steward supports passports, national ID cards, and other commonly accepted identity documents, validated according to jurisdictional requirements.