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What is Kord (Checkboard)?

Kord is an Anti-Money Laundering (AML), client-onboarding, and client-money platform for regulated businesses. It combines identity verification, customer due diligence, ongoing risk monitoring, closed-loop funds management, and payment operations for law firms, conveyancers, estate agents, and other regulated organizations.

Key Capabilities

  • KYC, KYB, and multi-layer identity-verification checks
  • AML screening, PEP and sanctions screening, and adverse-media monitoring
  • Source-of-funds and source-of-wealth checks
  • Ongoing customer monitoring with daily checks and real-time change alerts
  • Configurable client-onboarding workflows and multi-channel data collection
  • Buyer-risk profiling, including bankruptcy and county-court-judgment searches
  • Third-party managed accounts for client-money custody
  • Payment Hubs functionality for payment processing, reconciliation, and payout management
  • Open-banking integration and closed-loop, identity-bound payment flows
  • Audit-ready evidence, compliance timelines, and cryptographically secured audit trails

Audience & Use Cases

  • Kord is designed for regulated businesses that need to verify clients and manage client funds, particularly law firms, conveyancers, estate agents, and organizations with regulated customer-due-diligence obligations.
  • Common use cases include onboarding clients, completing AML and source-of-funds checks, monitoring customers for changing risk, holding client money in third-party managed accounts, processing and reconciling payments, and maintaining audit records for compliance decisions.

Technical Specifications

  • Modular platform with independently deployable data, payment, custody, audit, and reliance capabilities
  • Open APIs for integration with existing business systems
  • Configurable workflows and automation for client onboarding and payment operations
  • Multi-channel data-collection support
  • Biometric ID and address-verification capabilities
  • PEP, sanctions, adverse-media, mortality, and daily-monitoring checks
  • Open-banking integration for client-money payment flows
  • Automated reconciliation and payout-management capabilities
  • Third-party account support with ClearBank and Griffin Bank
  • PCI DSS compliance, ISO 27001 certification, ISO 9001 certification, and FCA-regulated payment and credit-data services

Screenshots

Screenshot of An example of the checks that Checkboard provides.

Screenshot of An example of the checks that Checkboard provides.

Technical Details

Technical Details
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesUK

FAQs

What is Kord (Checkboard)?
Kord is an Anti-Money Laundering (AML), client-onboarding, and client-money platform for regulated businesses. It combines identity verification, customer due diligence, ongoing risk monitoring, closed-loop funds management, and payment operations for law firms, conveyancers, estate agents, and other regulated organizations.
What are Kord (Checkboard)'s top competitors?
Thirdfort are common alternatives for Kord (Checkboard).