Art & High Value

Buyer and seller checks for
objects that move quietly.

The obligation starts at a number, not at a sector. Once a transaction crosses the threshold, an art dealer carries the same customer due diligence duties as a financial institution, and the buyer standing in the room is often not the buyer.

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450+
Sanctions & PEP datasets
147M+
Entities indexed
Both sides
Buyer and seller screened

Compliance challenges

What keeps your compliance team up at night.

The bidder is an agent

Buying through an adviser, a gallery or a family office is the norm at the top of the market, which puts the person you must know one step behind the person you are dealing with.

Provenance is a seller question

Where an object came from and who is selling it are related but separate checks, and only one of them is answered by the catalogue.

The cash threshold

Accepting payment at or above the threshold changes your legal status. It is a line in a regulation, not a judgement call about the client.

Freeports and storage transfers

An object can change owner without changing location, which removes the shipping event most controls are built around.

Cross-border in a single lot

A seller in one jurisdiction, a buyer in a second and storage in a third makes it three sanctions regimes for one hammer price.

Fairs and sale-room speed

A decision made across a stand at a fair still has to leave a file behind it.

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What we actually run for you.

Smart Sanction

Screen buyer, seller and any agent between them against 450+ sanctions and PEP datasets.

  • PEP screening that reaches family members and close associates, which is how art is usually held
  • Corporate ownership screening for a company, trust or foundation acting as the buyer
  • Adverse media in graded categories, attributed to the article it came from
  • Every hit carries its source record; its first-seen date is when our index first carried it, not when it was designated
  • Your screening history records who searched for whom, with which tool and when, so the file shows when each check ran
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Entity Graph

See the ownership around a buyer, not just the buyer.

  • Ownership and relationship mapping for the entity behind a bid
  • Associates and controlling parties surfaced rather than inferred
  • The same evidence trail as name screening, in the same case file
  • Useful before a sale rather than after a query from a supervisor
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Regulatory coverage

The rules that govern your business.

Named sources, not a badge wall. Each one is the instrument the obligation actually comes from.

Money Laundering Regulations 2017UK
Art market participant registration with HMRC and the due diligence duties that attach once a transaction reaches the threshold.
5AMLDEU
The directive that brought art dealers and intermediaries into scope for transactions at or above the stated value.
OFAC sanctionsUSA
Sanctions obligations attach to the transaction, and a high value object is a well-documented route for holding value across borders.
FATF Recommendation 22Global
The designated non-financial businesses and professions standard, which covers dealers in precious metals and stones.
GuideAML Software for Art DealersBuyer, seller and intermediary checks for art market participants.Read the guide

Art & High Value

Screen a buyer before the hammer falls.

GDPR-compliant; SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 applications planned. Every result carries the record behind it. Run a free check, or talk to us about sale-room volume.

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