Learning Course

Business Verification Advanced

Build on fundamentals by exploring entity types and risk levels, from low- to high-risk business verification

  • Irina Grishutova

    Irina Grishutova

    Head of KYB at Sumsub

    Irina is the Head of the KYB Team with a background in banking compliance. She leads the team, which handles manual business verifications across various jurisdictions. Since Sumsub first launched the manual KYB product in 2018, her team has conducted over 25,000 business verifications as of November 2024. In this course Irina will walk you through the legal background of the KYB procedure, the complexities of business ownership structures, regulatory demands, and other important details to help you set up the most suitable KYB process for your company.

  • Polina Bogdanova

    Polina Bogdanova

    KYB Technical Instructor

    Polina has a bachelor’s degree in law and over three and a half years of experience working at Sumsub. She started as a KYB Compliance Officer and now works as a KYB Trainer. Her main role is to help new team members learn KYB and to create a team environment where people grow, share knowledge, and support each other. In this course, her goal is to explain KYB in a simple and practical way, so listeners can understand and apply what they learn.

  • Jarryd Jensen

    Jarryd Jensen

    Senior Business Development Manager

    Jarryd brings over a decade of experience in the tech industry, specializing in software solutions and business process optimization. He focuses on building strong relationships and leading successful onboarding and compliance initiatives. In this course, he will cover current industry trends, share real-world cases from the field, and walk listeners through key regulatory specifics that impact how to build and manage onboarding workflows. The goal is to give practical insights and tools that listeners can apply directly to their onboarding and compliance processes.

Start date

August 25, 2025

Average completion time

2 hours

Every business you onboard carries a different level of risk, from small merchants to global corporations. As a result, you need strategies that adapt to different levels of complexity. Building on what you learned in Business Verification Fundamentals, this advanced course takes the next step. Here, you'll learn to segment and assess customer types, streamline verification, and stay compliant while managing both low-risk accounts and high-stakes clients such as crypto firms and foreign entities.

What you’ll learn

Our “Business Verification Advanced” course equips you with risk-based onboarding strategies for a wide range of business customers. Whether you’re dealing with low-risk entities like SMBs or complex high-risk structures such as crypto providers and foreign companies, this course offers a deep dive into customer segmentation, tailored due diligence, and risk mitigation techniques. In addition, you’ll learn how to balance compliance efficiency with strategic decision-making, so that your organization stays protected against evolving threats.

Key takeaways

  • Have a clear understanding of verification requirements for different business customer types.
  • Apply risk-based approaches to entity-specific onboarding workflows.
  • Streamline the onboarding experience without compromising compliance.
  • Strengthen operational efficiency and reduce friction in customer journeys.

Who is it for

  • Compliance officers
  • Onboarding or verification analysts
  • Customer success teams supporting regulated onboarding processes

How you’ll apply it

  • Verification Scope: Identify verification requirements across a range of business entity types.
  • Risk Analysis: Analyze risk indicators specific to both low- and high-risk customer profiles.
  • Workflow Customization: Apply tailored, risk-based onboarding workflows.
  • Strategy Evaluation: Evaluate onboarding strategies in light of real-world failures and successes.
  • Scalable Compliance: Design efficient, compliant onboarding experiences that scale.

Course structure

Module 1: Low-Risk Customers

In this module, you’ll learn how to assess and onboard low-risk customers within KYB compliance. Discover how to manage entities like SMBs and merchants with sellers, and in particular, explore common challenges in real-world examples. Then, learn how to address them with automation and risk-based strategies.

Module Structure

  • Low-risk customers
  • SMBs
  • Merchants/Sellers
  • Module 1 Test

Module 2: High-Risk Customers

This module explores onboarding strategies for high-value and high-net-worth individuals, crypto businesses, foreign entities, and government-linked organizations, where risk signals are harder to detect and the stakes are higher. See what challenges you may face in real-world examples, and then learn how to overcome issues and onboard customers with suggested strategies. Finally, minimize exposure and support secure partnerships.

Module Structure

  • High-risk customers
  • High-value/HNWI customers
  • Crypto Clients/VASPs
  • Foreign companies
  • Government companies
  • Module 2 Test

2 tests with a total of 40 questions

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