Factline KYC

Use when you need to verify that a company exists and is active: official registers GLEIF (worldwide, incl. Dutch LEI holders), UK Companies House, Ireland CRO, Estonia, France SIRENE, Norway, Finland, Czechia, Slovakia and Poland (with bank accounts). Returns legal name, status, registry id, legal form, address, founding date. Search by name or id. Costs 0.008 USDC via x402, or 4 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when you need to judge whether a website or email domain is trustworthy: registration date and domain age (RDAP), expiry, registrar, nameservers, email setup (MX, SPF, DMARC), disposable-email domains, and a low/medium/high risk with flags such as 'registered 4 days ago', a common sign of scam shops. Accepts a domain, URL or email. Costs 0.003 USDC via x402, or 2 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when you need to know if an email address is real and deliverable before signup, outreach or onboarding: syntax, live MX routing, 9,000+ disposable domains, role addresses, free providers, typo suggestions (gmial.com to gmail.com) and SPF/DMARC. One verdict: deliverable, risky or undeliverable. Costs 0.002 USDC via x402, or 1 credit of a Factline API key.

Use when you need to check an EU EORI customs number: live validation in the European Commission's EORI service, registered and valid or not, with the trader's name and address when published. All EU member states; GB numbers are not covered. Costs 0.003 USDC via x402, or 2 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when screening a list of people or companies at once (up to 25 per call, 0.0012 USDC per name) against the EU, UN, UK and US OFAC sanctions lists. Fuzzy matching; per name a possible-match flag, top score and up to 3 scored matches with their lists. For customer bases, payouts and vendor lists. Costs 0.03 USDC via x402, or 15 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when you must check whether a person or company is under sanctions: screens the name against the EU, UN, UK and US OFAC lists (25,000+ persons, companies and vessels with aliases, refreshed weekly). Fuzzy matching handles spelling, transliteration and word order; returns scored possible matches with lists, references and birth dates. Costs 0.005 USDC via x402, or 3 credits of a Factline API key.

Use before sending crypto to an address, or when asked if a wallet is sanctioned: checks Bitcoin, Ethereum/EVM, Tron, USDT, Litecoin, Monero and other addresses against the wallets on the US OFAC SDN list, refreshed weekly. Returns sanctioned true/false, currency, listed entity and programme. Costs 0.003 USDC via x402, or 2 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when the user looks for public contracts to bid on: open tenders from TED, the EU's official journal, by country, CPV code, keywords, deadline and minimum value, with English titles, buyer, deadline and value. For the Netherlands it adds national below-threshold tenders from TenderNed, which TED does not have. Costs 0.005 USDC via x402, or 3 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when the user gives an EU VAT number and you need to know if it is valid: live check in the European Commission's VIES service for all 27 member states plus Northern Ireland, with the registered company name and address where shared. Input: VAT number with country prefix, e.g. IE6388047V. Costs 0.003 USDC via x402, or 2 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when you need to check an IBAN before a payout or invoice: length per country, mod-97 checksum (catches typos), SEPA membership, and for Dutch IBANs the bank (ING, ABN AMRO, Rabobank, bunq...). Does not confirm the account holder. Costs 0.001 USDC via x402, or 1 credit of a Factline API key.

Use when onboarding a customer, seller or business and you want one answer: screens the name against EU, UN, UK and US sanctions and the PEP list, verifies email and phone, and checks an EU VAT number in VIES, all in parallel, with one verdict: pass, review, block_review or incomplete. Send any of name, email, phone, vat. Costs 0.01 USDC via x402, or 5 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when you need to know if a Dutch company is bankrupt or in suspension of payments: live check in the Centraal Insolventieregister (Rechtspraak) with active and ended cases, court, case number, dates, administrator and claims deadline. Legal entities only. Input: KvK number or company name. Costs 0.01 USDC via x402, or 5 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when screening a list of up to 25 names for politically exposed persons in one call (0.0012 USDC per name): top 3 possible matches per name with positions and status. For customer-base and CRM re-screening. Costs 0.03 USDC via x402, or 15 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when you must check whether a person is a politically exposed person (PEP) for AML/KYC: heads of state and government, ministers of every country, central bank governors, MEPs and national MPs of the EU, EEA, UK, US and Switzerland, current or former (default 5 years). Fuzzy matching with positions, country and dates. Pairs with sanctions screening. Costs 0.005 USDC via x402, or 3 credits of a Factline API key.

Use when you need to check a phone number from any country: valid and possible against allocated ranges, E.164 and national format, country, and line type (mobile, landline, VoIP, toll-free, premium) with an SMS-capable hint. National numbers need a country, e.g. 0612345678 with country=NL. Costs 0.003 USDC via x402, or 2 credits of a Factline API key.