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KYC

Know Your Customer — the due-diligence process used to verify counterparty identity and risk.

KYC (Know Your Customer) is the industry-standard due-diligence process for verifying a counterparty's identity, ownership, and risk.

OilFlow's 7-step KYC pipeline: (1) sanctions screening (OFAC+UN+EU+UK, hard stop), (2) company registration, (3) regulatory license, (4) asset confirmation, (5) trade reference check, (6) digital footprint, (7) broker-scam pattern detection.

Related: OFAC, UN-Sanctions.

Frequently asked

What does KYC mean in oil and commodity trading?
Know Your Customer — the due-diligence process used to verify counterparty identity and risk.
How do I check a counterparty that uses KYC in a deal?
The term itself is not enough to clear or condemn a deal. What matters is the counterparty behind the pitch. Screen that name for free against 8 sanctions lists plus PEP and OilFlow's first-party cluster corpus in seconds, or order the full 7-step dossier for $25, and confirm identity documents and banking details independently before you transact.

See also

ofacun-sanctions

Seen this term in a live pitch?

These terms show up in real deal pitches — some legitimate, some not. OilFlow screens the counterparty behind the pitch against 8 sanctions lists + PEP and a first-party-investigated fraud-cluster corpus, with a clearance verdict in under 30 seconds.