Mandate and counterparty checks that take your professional-conduct law seriously.
Those who check for clients can tolerate no gray zone with their own provider. Indicium reports carry dated sources, a full audit trail and explicit treatment of §43e BRAO and §203 StGB confidentiality — so the documentation your partners and your clients will ask for already exists when they ask.
Not the check. The file you build around it.
Confidentiality is not a feature. It is the engagement.
A check ordered by a law firm can touch privileged relationships. That is why our data processing addresses professional-conduct confidentiality explicitly — before the first report runs.
| Framework | What it requires | How Indicium documents it |
|---|---|---|
| § 43e BRAO | Duty of care in handling client information; confidentiality as a professional obligation | Explicit treatment in data-processing setup; roles assigned in writing, case by case |
| § 203 StGB | Criminal-law protection of secrets entrusted to attorneys and other professionals | Access limited to the people processing the case; no training use; EU hosting |
| GwG §§ 11–14 | Identification, beneficial-owner assessment, ongoing monitoring | Structural look-through up to three levels, dated sources, re-screening |
| Art. 22 GDPR | No solely automated decision with legal effect about a person | Human final review at fixed trigger thresholds, four-eyes principle, audit trail |
The honest boundary: what is registered nowhere — unregistered trusts, purely private holdings — no automated check can see from open and licensed sources. Every report states that limit rather than papering over it.
€79 is the automated baseline — not the whole spectrum.
A price that low invites the question every partner is right to ask: can this actually be trusted? The honest answer is that €79 buys the Essential tier of the Software-Report — the fully automated depth that resolves around 70% of routine cases, every source dated and reproducible as of the cut-off date. It is the baseline, not the ceiling.
Where the stakes are higher — a suspicious counterparty, a nested ownership structure, a case that will end up in front of a client or a court — Hybrid adds documented human review under the four-eyes principle, and Boutique is fully analyst-led. You choose the depth per case; the audit trail records which depth you chose and why. Set against a partner-rate hour of your own time, even the analyst-led depth is a fraction of the cost.
"With Indicium, we were able to implement a digital process that provides structured and traceable reports and supports our internal documentation processes. The decisive factors for us were European data residency and the clear consent structure."— Bruno Schneller, Managing Partner, Erlen Capital Management AG
Erlen Capital is a FINMA-licensed asset manager, not a law firm — but it operates under the same documentation bar: KYC, anti-money-laundering and ongoing-monitoring duties that must survive internal and external audit. Read the case study →
From the routine onboarding check to the analyst-led escalation.
How does Indicium handle §43e BRAO and §203 StGB confidentiality?+
Can a €79 report really hold up in front of a client or a court?+
Does Indicium support GwG obligations at client onboarding?+
Where is our data hosted, and what about Art. 22 GDPR?+
What happens if we are not satisfied with a report?+
Our reports are tailored to the evidence requirements of regulated institutions: dated, sourced, verifiable. Whether your supervisory authority accepts a check in an individual case is not for us to decide – we provide the basis you can use to evidence it.