Verification, Tracing & Risk Services
Inquiry Group also offers authorised verification, tracing, banking, consumer, commercial, and compliance-related services for lawful business, onboarding, fraud prevention, due diligence, debt recovery, and investigative purposes.
This page is not framed as unrestricted access to personal or business information. These services are handled within lawful purpose, platform rules, supporting authority, and service availability. Some searches can be processed quickly. Others require signed forms, supporting documents, consent where applicable, or another recognised lawful basis before they can be submitted.
The objective is practical: help businesses, professionals, credit-related processes, onboarding workflows, due-diligence matters, and other legitimate enquiries get the right verification or report in a cleaner, more controlled way.
Best suited for
Businesses, landlords, onboarding teams, credit-related environments, due-diligence workflows, fraud-prevention use cases, debt recovery matters, and other legitimate verification needs.
Main service groups
ID verification, KYC, AML and PEP screening, watchlist monitoring, banking verification, tracing services, consumer risk, collections-related support, and commercial entity reporting.
Important compliance position
Certain searches can only be processed once the required mandate, forms, supporting documents, consent where applicable, or other lawful authority and valid reason for enquiry have been provided.
Scope position
This is a controlled service model. It is not an unrestricted public search facility and not every service is available in every matter.
Identity Verification, KYC & Compliance Services
These services are designed to help confirm identity, strengthen onboarding controls, and reduce fraud or compliance exposure where the request fits the required purpose and authority.
South African ID Verification
Verification of core identity details linked to a South African government-issued identity to help confirm that the person being dealt with is properly identified.
Biometric Verification
Biometric and identity-related verification support for higher-control environments where identity matching needs to be stronger than a basic data check.
KYC Manager
Know Your Customer support for onboarding and file-building environments where identity, supporting documents, and client information need to be checked more carefully.
AML / PEP Screening
Anti-money-laundering, politically exposed person, sanctions, and related screening support for businesses that need stronger compliance visibility before dealing with a person or entity.
AML Watchlist Monitoring
Ongoing or repeated screening support for environments where continued watchlist visibility is more useful than a once-off check.
Driver’s Licence Decoding
South African driver’s licence barcode decoding and data extraction support for lawful KYC, onboarding, and verification-related workflows where appropriate.
Banking, Property & Tracing Services
These services are useful where identity confirmation, tracing, financial verification, asset-linked background, or location-related information is needed for a legitimate and properly supported purpose.
Bank Account Verification
Verification support for banking details where payout validation, supplier onboarding, refund controls, fraud reduction, or identity-linked payment checking is required.
Bank Statement Analysis
Selected statement-analysis support where financial behaviour, affordability indicators, or transaction pattern review is relevant and the required documents and authority are in place.
Deeds Office Search
Property and deeds-linked search support for asset tracing, due diligence, background enquiry, or formal matter preparation where property-linked information is relevant.
Persons Name Search
Name-based search support to help build a more complete picture where a matter requires lawful tracing, identification, or supporting information gathering.
Contact to ID Number
Contact-linked tracing support in matters where a number or contact point forms part of a legitimate identity or tracing enquiry and the request can be lawfully processed.
Tiny Trace / Consumer Trace / Super Trace
Different trace levels can assist with locating contact, address, employer, or related identifying details depending on the report type accepted and the data returned.
XDS Consumer Trace
Expanded consumer tracing support for matters requiring broader trace depth, particularly where debt recovery, file validation, or contact-location work is relevant.
TransUnion Forensic Report
Forensic-style consumer background reporting support where stronger risk visibility, history review, or deeper investigation support is needed within lawful scope.
Consumer Risk, Collections & Credit Services
These services support risk assessment, affordability review, collections preparation, repayment viability review, and consumer credit-related decision-making where the request fits the permitted framework.
Express Credit Score
Quick consumer score support for environments that need a faster initial risk indication before deeper credit-related review is considered.
Affordability Assessment
Affordability-related outputs that help support financial suitability or repayment-ability review in lending, collections, or other structured financial contexts.
Consumer Credit Reports
Consumer credit-reporting support through available bureau-linked outputs where the request fits a lawful and prescribed purpose and the required authority is in place.
Collections Snapshot
Collections-focused reporting that helps assess recovery viability, repayment patterns, debt position, and related collection decision-making factors.
Default Listing Checks
Support for identifying adverse default-related information where such access is permitted and relevant to the matter being handled.
Debt Recovery Support
Selected tracing, collections, and consumer-risk outputs can be used together in suitable matters to support more informed recovery strategy and file preparation.
Commercial, Company & Trust Risk Services
These services are useful where supplier vetting, company due diligence, director verification, trust validation, commercial credit review, or broader entity risk analysis is required.
CIPC Director Report
Director-linked reporting support to help confirm who is tied to a company and to strengthen entity or principal due diligence before dealing.
CIPC Business Report
Company registration and entity-linked reporting support to confirm core business details, status, and related information relevant to due diligence.
Business Quick Vetting
Fast summary-level business vetting for situations where an immediate view of a company’s standing, activity status, and risk indicators is needed.
Trust Information Report
Trust-linked reporting support for verifying trust registration details, trustee information, and entity status where a trust forms part of the business or financial relationship.
Commercial Credit Report
Commercial credit and business-risk reporting support for lenders, suppliers, investors, and businesses that need a stronger view of company risk before proceeding.
Entity Due Diligence Support
Selected company, director, trust, and commercial-risk outputs can be combined in suitable matters to support broader due-diligence review and business decision-making.
What May Be Required Before Processing
- Clear reason for enquiry: the purpose of the request must be stated properly.
- Signed instruction or mandate: some services require a clear written instruction or authority.
- Consent where applicable: some consumer and credit-related searches cannot proceed without it.
- Supporting documents: identity details, company details, debt records, onboarding records, or other supporting information may be needed.
- Provider approval: certain services remain subject to platform rules and source availability.
What This Service Is Not
- No unrestricted data access: this is not a public search-anyone facility.
- No improper personal-data requests: enquiries must fit lawful and accepted use conditions.
- No guarantee every search will be approved: some requests will not qualify or may require more support.
- No guarantee of identical outputs: results depend on the service, source, and data returned.
- No bypass of POPIA, NCA, or platform rules: those limits still apply where relevant.
How the Verification Process Works
The process is kept practical so the enquiry can be assessed properly before any search or report is submitted.
Send a clear description of the service needed, the reason for the request, and the basic details already available.
The request is reviewed to determine whether it fits the service type and what authority, forms, consent, or supporting documents may be required.
The available report or search type is confirmed together with the scope, pricing position, and any missing requirements.
Once the required authority and information are in place, the request is submitted and the result is provided subject to the applicable service rules.
Need a Verification, Tracing or Risk Service?
Send the service required, the reason for the request, and any supporting details already available. Where consent, signed authority, forms, prescribed-purpose requirements, or supporting documents apply, those requirements must be satisfied before processing can begin.