UAE client onboarding & ongoing screening
A canopy of confidence. For every client relationship.
Protect your firm with a clearer view of who you do business with. Canopi brings client onboarding, ongoing screening and compliance evidence under one canopy — from the first document to the next review.
Built for UAE mainland and free zones. Your data never leaves the country.
Cobalt Digital Assets Ltd · ADGM-11540
Yusuf Haddad
Orion Marine Services FZ-LLC · RAK-99120
يوسف حداد
Two spellings, two files, four of your clients. One of them was designated last night.
Care from the first document
Give every relationship a stronger start.
The licence arrives as a photo. The shareholding adds up to 90%. Two of the four owners are in another country. Three weeks later you are still in the same group chat, and the passport scans are sitting in it.
Every one of those documents is personal data your firm is now responsible for, sitting in a consumer messaging app on somebody's phone.
Instead
One link. They fill it in on their phone.
- They can't submit an ownership chain that doesn't add up. The form says 90%, not 100%, before it ever reaches you.
- Arabic or English, on a phone, saved as they go. The person actually doing this is usually the PRO, standing at a counter.
- Documents land in a UAE vault, scanned, with a chain of custody. Not in a chat thread you'd rather an inspector never asked about.
- Nothing enters your book until you accept it. What they submit is a proposal. You decide whether it becomes a file.
Every night, while the office is shut
Keep watch as relationships grow.
A client who was clean when you took them on is not a client who is clean. Canopi re-screens every person behind every live file against the UAE Local Terrorist List, UN, OFAC and EU — nightly — and puts what changed at the top of your morning.
- You find out in hours, not at renewal. The gap between a listing and your knowing it is the whole exposure.
- An approved file can be pulled back automatically. A confirmed match doesn't wait politely for someone to notice.
- Clear a false positive once, for the person. Not once per file, every quarter, forever.
- Licence and Emirates ID expiries chase themselves at 60, 30 and 7 days.
The thing a folder of PDFs will never do
One person, however their name was written down.
Yusuf, Youssef, Yousef and يوسف are one man, and if your system holds four of him it will screen him four times and catch him on none. Canopi matches across spellings and across scripts, then shows you every client he touches — so a designation on one file lights up all of them.
- Search in either script and find both. Type يوسف, get Yusuf. Type Yous, get Youssef.
- See a director across your whole book in one view, with the files that disagree with each other pulled to the front.
- Two people who share a name stay two people. A match suggests; only an Emirates ID or passport ever links. An innocent namesake never inherits somebody else's designation.
Written for this jurisdiction, not localised into it
Answers ready before the question.
Your data stays in the UAE
Hosted in-region, encrypted at rest with keys held in the same region. Nothing about a client crosses a border to be processed.
goAML without the retyping
An STR or SAR is assembled from the file you already have, with the report type suggested from the facts and every gap listed before you file.
An audit trail that cannot be edited
Every check, decision and override is written once and kept. Not by policy — by the database refusing. Five years, per UAE AML law.
Arabic and English as one record
Both names, both scripts, right to left where it belongs — because that is how a trade licence is issued, not as a translation toggle.
Pricing
Priced per firm, not per seat.
Everyone in your office can use it. You pay for the verifications you run. Tell us your volume and we will quote in AED.
Starter
On request
A monthly allowance of company and individual checks
then pay per extra check
Boutique law firms, single-branch brokerages, accountants.
Growth
On request
A larger monthly allowance
and a lower rate per extra check
Mid-sized corporate service providers, commercial brokers, regional fintechs.
Enterprise
On request
Volume tiers and rates
dedicated onboarding and support
Banks, free zone authorities, large developers.
All pricing in AED, quoted to your volume.
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