Industries
Professional & Corporate Services

Trust & Corporate Service Providers

Defensible diligence for trusts, structures and their parties

Trust and corporate service providers (TCSPs) administer trusts, foundations, funds and corporate structures, carrying some of the most demanding client-due-diligence and source-of-wealth obligations in the compliance world. OnyxOne gives TCSPs one operating system to diligence settlors, beneficiaries, protectors and controlling parties, screen continuously, evidence source of wealth and keep an inspection-ready record across long-lived structures.

At a glance

How OnyxOne fits your operation

OnyxOne in a trust & corporate service providers operationSchematic
Your teamsCompliance · risk · legalAnalysts & investigatorsScreen, review and decideOversight & approvalsSign-off and reportingOnyxOneCompliance & risk OSScreening · Due diligenceCases · Risk · MonitoringPolicy · Reporting · AuditSystems & sourcesConfigured per deploymentScreening data providersSanctions · PEP · mediaYour systems of recordOnboarding · core systemsOne platform for the whole programme — not a stack of disconnected tools and spreadsheets.

Your compliance, risk, audit and legal teams work in OnyxOne, which centralises risk, controls, policy, obligations, cases and evidence, and connects to the systems, screening and data providers your deployment requires.

Regulatory context

The pressures this sector carries

The compliance and regulatory realities that shape how firms in this sector operate. Described generically — your obligations depend on your jurisdiction, licence and activities.

Obligations, controls & risksSchematic
POLICIESAML policyData protectionSanctions policyCode of conductCONTROLSKYC checksScreeningAccess controlTransaction monitoringApprovalsRISKSFinancial crimeRegulatory breachData lossReputational harmPolicies map to controls; controls mitigate risks — traceable both ways for audit.

How professional obligations map to the controls a practice operates, and how those controls mitigate the risks it carries. Labels are illustrative.

A high-risk sector under close supervision

TCSPs are widely treated as a higher-risk gateway and are expected to run rigorous, risk-based due diligence, screening and monitoring on the structures they administer and the parties connected to them. The platform supports this programme shape; your obligations depend on your jurisdiction and licences.

Many parties per structure

A single trust or structure can involve settlors, beneficiaries, protectors, controllers and underlying companies. Each may require identification, screening and, in higher-risk cases, source-of-wealth evidence.

Source of wealth and funds

Establishing and evidencing the origin of wealth and funds is a central and often demanding expectation, particularly for higher-value and PEP-connected relationships.

Long-lived relationships need ongoing review

Structures can persist for decades. Supervisors expect diligence to be kept current through periodic and trigger-based review across the whole life of the relationship.

The challenge

What makes this hard today

The operational realities compliance and risk teams in this sector wrestle with.

Complex, multi-party structures

Mapping every settlor, beneficiary, protector and controller across layered structures — and keeping it current — is genuinely hard by hand.

Source-of-wealth evidence burden

Gathering, assessing and evidencing source of wealth and funds is demanding, and doing it consistently across a book of relationships is harder still.

Decades-long relationships

Structures outlive the staff who onboarded them, so institutional knowledge and diligence quality erode without a system of record.

Screening many connected parties

Every party connected to a structure needs screening at onboarding and continuously — rarely handled comprehensively in spreadsheets.

Inspection-readiness across the book

Producing a defensible file for any structure on request is difficult when evidence is scattered across documents and drives.

The approach

How OnyxOne serves the sector

Structure and party mapping

Each structure is captured with its parties — settlors, beneficiaries, protectors, controllers and underlying entities — so the full picture lives in one record and can be kept current.

Source-of-wealth workflows

Higher-risk relationships follow a defined enhanced-due-diligence workflow that captures and evidences source of wealth and funds, with documented assessment and approval.

Continuous screening of every party

All connected parties are screened at onboarding and on an ongoing basis, with every match captured against the structure and party it belongs to.

Review that spans the relationship

Periodic and trigger-based reviews keep diligence current across decades-long structures, independent of staff turnover.

An inspection-ready record

Every party, check, source-of-wealth assessment and decision is preserved in an immutable, retrievable trail, so any structure's file exists on request.

The workflow

The end-to-end workflow

A defined, sector-specific process with clear ownership at every stage.

The workflow, step by stepSchematic
01Map the structureThe trust, foundation or corporate structure is captured with all connected parties— settlors, beneficiaries, protectors, controllers and underlying entities.02Diligence & screen partiesEach party is identified, verified and screened against sanctions, PEP andadverse-media sources.03Evidence source of wealthHigher-risk relationships route into enhanced due diligence with source-of-wealthand source-of-funds evidence captured and assessed.04Risk-rate the relationshipThe structure is scored against your risk methodology, with the factors recorded sothe rating is defensible.05Monitor & reviewOngoing screening plus scheduled and trigger-based reviews keep diligence currentacross the life of the structure.06Preserve the recordEvery party, assessment, decision and document is preserved in an immutable,retrievable trail ready for inspection.

Every result, decision and override is captured against the record it belongs to.

01

Map the structure

The trust, foundation or corporate structure is captured with all connected parties — settlors, beneficiaries, protectors, controllers and underlying entities.

02

Diligence & screen parties

Each party is identified, verified and screened against sanctions, PEP and adverse-media sources.

03

Evidence source of wealth

Higher-risk relationships route into enhanced due diligence with source-of-wealth and source-of-funds evidence captured and assessed.

04

Risk-rate the relationship

The structure is scored against your risk methodology, with the factors recorded so the rating is defensible.

05

Monitor & review

Ongoing screening plus scheduled and trigger-based reviews keep diligence current across the life of the structure.

06

Preserve the record

Every party, assessment, decision and document is preserved in an immutable, retrievable trail ready for inspection.

Use cases

How teams in this sector use OnyxOne

Mapping multi-party structures

Capture every settlor, beneficiary, protector and controller in one record and keep the map current as the structure changes.

Evidencing source of wealth

Run source-of-wealth assessment in a defined workflow so the evidence and reasoning are captured, not improvised.

Surviving staff turnover

Keep the structure's full diligence history in a system of record so knowledge doesn't leave with the administrator.

Producing a file on inspection

Retrieve a defensible, timestamped record for any structure on request instead of assembling it from drives.

Integrations

Works with your existing systems

Described as capabilities — OnyxOne connects to the systems your deployment requires, configured per implementation.

Administration & practice systems
  • Ingests structure and party data from your existing trust and corporate-administration systems
Screening & data sources
  • Connects to the sanctions, PEP and adverse-media providers contracted for your deployment
Registry & ownership data
  • Integrates with your existing corporate-registry and beneficial-ownership data services
Document & records systems
  • Connects to your existing document stores so diligence and source-of-wealth evidence live with the structure file
Collaboration & notification
  • Routes reviews, alerts and approvals through your existing email and messaging tools
Assurance

Security & reporting

Security & data handling

  • Structure, party and case data are encrypted in transit and at rest.
  • Role-based access controls who can view, edit, approve and report on sensitive relationships.
  • Every check, source-of-wealth assessment, decision and document is written to an append-only audit trail.
  • Highly sensitive party and suspicion-related data are restricted to authorised roles under strict need-to-know.
  • Data residency and retention are configurable to your jurisdiction and record-keeping obligations.

Reports & returns

  • Suspicious-activity / suspicious-transaction report content (SAR/STR)
  • Party and structure screening-coverage reports
  • Source-of-wealth and enhanced-diligence evidence packs
  • Structure risk-rating distribution and review-due reports
  • Management information for the compliance function and directors
The value

What your team gains

The whole structure in one record

Every connected party and its diligence lives in a single, current picture rather than scattered files.

Source of wealth evidenced consistently

A defined workflow makes source-of-wealth assessment repeatable and defensible across the book.

Continuity across decades

A system of record preserves diligence quality through staff turnover and long relationships.

Inspection-ready at all times

An immutable trail means any structure's file can be produced on request.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Is OnyxOne a trust or corporate service provider?

No. OnyxOne is a technology vendor providing compliance and risk software. It is not a TCSP or a regulated firm, and is not an obliged entity. Responsibility for obligations remains with your firm.

Can it handle multi-party structures?

Yes. Each structure is captured with all connected parties — settlors, beneficiaries, protectors, controllers and underlying entities — screened and diligenced individually, with the full picture kept in one record.

Does it support source-of-wealth evidence?

Higher-risk relationships follow a defined enhanced-due-diligence workflow that captures and assesses source of wealth and funds, with documented reasoning and approval.

How does it help with long-lived structures?

Ongoing screening plus scheduled and trigger-based reviews keep diligence current across decades, and the system of record preserves the full history independent of staff turnover.

Do you provide the screening data?

Screening and data providers are contracted and configured per deployment rather than fixed to a single named partner; OnyxOne applies your chosen sources through configurable match logic.

See OnyxOne for Trust & Corporate Service Providers

Book a walkthrough and we'll show how the platform fits your sector's obligations, workflows and systems — then scope an implementation.