One secure link takes your client through intake, identity verification and screening, and leaves you a decision-ready file with the audit trail already written. Built for South African law firms, from the four-attorney practice up.
A four-attorney firm carries the same duties as a hundred-attorney firm. Onvett was built around the Act itself, around POPIA, and around the FIC’s guidance, so that doing the work produces the evidence as a by-product. Your firm still complies. Onvett carries the workload and shows the trail.
A scan, a photo or a Word export. AI picks out the real shareholders, leaves out the headers, totals and signatures, and shows you every row it took.
Every founder, trustee and beneficiary named in the deed, set against the people the client declared. A name in the deed that is missing from the file is raised for the attorney, never quietly added.
Through holding companies and trusts to the natural persons who ultimately own or control the client. Any shareholder, trustee or beneficiary that is itself a company, trust or partnership is looked through to its own owners.
Your firm builds its own risk matrix and sets how much each factor counts. AI reads the client’s answers and documents against it, and an attorney approves the rating before the client can be approved.
Nothing AI produces is a decision. It is labelled, it shows its source, and an attorney signs off by name.
Directors, shareholders, trustees and ultimate owners are screened at take-on against the UN, OFAC, EU and POCDATARA sanctions lists, with PEP checks. After that, every client is screened again whenever a list changes, at no extra charge.
Screening a client at take-on does not discharge the duty to keep screening them. These are the obligations that run continuously, with the citation each one answers to.
See all eleven dutiesEvery client is re-screened automatically whenever the sanctions lists change, and the attorney is alerted.
Screening at take-on alone does not discharge this duty. It is the sharpest reason client take-on alone is not compliance.
Screen every employee against the sanctions lists and record a competence and integrity assessment for each one.
Assess your own money-laundering and terrorist-financing risk before choosing controls, in a structured assessment the firm can show and revisit.
A register of reportable cash transactions, with the three-working-day clock running from the moment one is recorded.
Your firm files with the FIC. Onvett keeps the register and runs the clock.
Keep client information current and re-evaluate risk ratings at the intervals your firm sets, with the review recorded.
A pre-filled worksheet evidencing the firm’s answers, assembled from what the product already holds.
Your firm submits the return. Onvett pre-fills the worksheet.
A monthly subscription per seat, counted from your own user list, plus a flat fee for every client vetted. One itemised invoice at the end of each month.
Rates read live from the firm settings. Ongoing sanctions monitoring is included. PEP re-screening for higher-risk clients is billed at cost plus a small markup.
Small, fixed and written into how the product works.
Start vetting clientsEvery named party screened against the UN, OFAC, EU and POCDATARA sanctions lists.
Your client completes one form from a secure link. No account, no password.
Client records kept for the five years the Act requires, never hard-deleted.
Client take-on: intake, identity, screening, an advisory rating against your own policy, and the annexure. Plus the duties that run whether a new client arrives or not: re-screening when the sanctions lists change, employee screening, periodic review, registers and returns. Priced as a monthly seat plus a flat fee per client vetted.
Never. The rating and the screening results are advisory and labelled as such. An attorney records every decision, and nothing is ever auto-approved, auto-blocked or auto-rejected.
No. Clients receive a secure one-time link by email and complete a single intake form with no login. The link expires after use and cannot be reused or guessed.
Data is encrypted in transit and at rest and stored in South Africa, with explicit client consent. Onvett is multi-tenant by design: each firm sees only its own clients, policy and brand, with no cross-firm visibility.
Every client file leaves Onvett as documents you keep: a firm-branded FICA annexure and a screening certificate, both downloaded into your own matter file at the time of the decision. The record a regulator asks for lives in your filing system, not only in ours.
There is nothing to migrate. Your existing files stay exactly where they are, and the next client you open uses an Onvett link. Firms start with one matter, not a rollout.
The rating is advisory and the attorney records the decision, so the decision on the file is the firm’s. The precise wording of this answer is a founder and compliance-advisor decision, not a design one.
Onvett produces the same record a manual file would, with a time-stamped trail of who did what. What may be claimed about acceptance is a founder and compliance-advisor decision, not a design one.
No. Cash threshold reports and the Risk and Compliance Return are filed by your firm, through the FIC’s own channels. Onvett keeps the register, runs the three-working-day clock and pre-fills the worksheet.
Named parties are screened against the UN Security Council list as the FIC publishes it, the US OFAC SDN list, the EU Consolidated list and South Africa’s own POCDATARA court-order designations, using fuzzy matching with similarity scores. Each list reports its own status, and a list we could not reach is flagged as not screened, never shown as a clean pass.