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Jun 23
State regulators are starting to treat med spas as medical clinics. On paper, most of these businesses are still just salons. With New York, Indiana, and Ohio now cracking down on med spas, we looked at how 12,646 of these businesses describe themselves in their own filings:
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Jun 18
Cargo theft has hit roughly $725 million per year, and a growing share of it starts with a clean-looking KYB check. A fraudulent freight broker registers, gets an MC number, and within days is bidding on loads. Then a shipper runs a simple KYB check: active, bonded, passed.
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Jun 16
Corporate registrations are the weakest evidence used in KYB checks: a registration and a tax ID both rest on self-reported information that takes an afternoon to produce, and neither proves the business operates. A rigorous check weighs evidence by its origin. Signals from
KYB Verification: The Complete Guide to Business Identity Verification | Enigma
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Jun 12
A registered-agent address is one of the most common risk flags in KYB. It may also be the least useful one left. Just 128,124 addresses now carry 26.6% of all U.S. corporate filings: 0.21% of addresses holding more than a quarter of the registry, most of them registered-agent
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Jun 10
A legitimate business can fail compliance checks without doing anything wrong. The business changes its name in March, its address in May, files in a new state in July. Nothing about what it does actually changes. But the registration records move, and data providers that only