Gallery AML Compliance That Respects Client Discretion
Art collectors don't wait around for paperwork. KYC Protect screens your clients in under three minutes, replaces hours of manual admin, and secures your business so you can focus on your gallery instead.
Navigate art market AML risk with absolute certainty.
A gallery sale rarely begins as a compliance event. It starts with a collector standing in front of a work they love during an opening, a museum board completing a gap in the collection, or a trusted advisor introducing a client who "prefers discretion." Your sales team is managing atmosphere, confidence, timing, and taste. Then, the transaction crosses the €10,000 threshold, a corporate entity pays, an intermediary buys, or a resale introduces provenance risk.
Relieving compliance friction for global galleries.
That is the exact moment manual compliance risks a lost sale, PDF forms are missing linked transactions. Emailing client passports or source of wealth documents breaks privacy rules. Generic KYC tools treat an art gallery like a retail bank—failing to see the operational differences between primary market sales, secondary market consignments, and artist estates. KYC Protect is built exclusively for the art market.
Does your gallery comply with EU regulations? Please download our free 5-step compliance guide to ensure your business follows EU anti-money laundering regulations.
The KYCProtect Gallery Operation System
Seamless automated onboarding designed for high-value transactions, private art advisors, and international galleries. Built on enterprise-grade security infrastructure, so you and your clients can transact with complete confidence.
Identity & Structure Verification
Automated Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Know Your Customer (KYC), and Know Your Business (KYB) mapping for both private individuals and complex corporate structures.
Advanced Biometrics & Provenance
Secure biometric verification and precise source of funds checks explicitly tailored for high-value art transactions.
Global Risk Screening
Real-time scanning across international sanctions lists, PEP databases, adverse media tracking, and Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) registries.
Audit-Ready Control
Immediate compliance sign-off logs and centralized records management designed to confidently satisfy supervisory reviews.
Perspectives from the art market.
Case study: Why leading contemporary galleries are replacing manual compliance workflows with KYC Protect.
"Before we integrated KYC Protect, our team was losing hours because of long PDF forms and sorting IDs into folders and not finding them when we needed to. Now, we have so much more time to focus on what actually matters—supporting our artists, nurturing collector relationships, and curating exceptional exhibitions."
— Managing Director | Contemporary Gallery (London & Berlin)
Everything Starts by Sending a Remote, Secure Link
No matter who your buyer is, where they are located, or how they choose to pay, you will never have to chase a collector for confidential paperwork or risk their privacy over an insecure email.
From private individuals and family foundations to complex trusts, corporate entities, and multi-layered partnerships, the entire workflow is frictionless. You simply generate and share a secure, single-use link. KYC Protect's intelligent, intuitive forms gracefully guide your client through the verification process, capturing the precise, audit-ready data you need on the very first attempt.
Gallery
KYCProtect Dashboard
Secure link generated
Collector
Anywhere in the world
How to Get Started with AML Compliance
Get KYC Protect securing your gallery transactions in minutes, no compliance team or IT background required.
Policy
Configure your custom AML Risk Assessment parameters and threshold rules directly within your centralized dashboard.
Training
Meet your AML training obligations with our trusted partner Finanslicenser. A professional training program specifically designed for galleries.
Read more →Verify
Start verifying Customer Due Diligence on transactions of €10,000 or more by sending a secure link. The KYCProtect system discreetly guides your collector, trust, or corporate buyer through the verification process.
Start today →Secure
Monitor your audit-ready compliance documentation from a single dashboard. Screen for global sanctions issues in real time and safely maintain your required legal records.
Choose Your Gallery Plan
Start verifying collectors in minutes — pick the plan that fits your gallery and sign up to go live today.
For Growing Art & Design galleries
- Everything in Basic
- Entity KYC (Business verification)
- Adverse Media Screening
- Internal AML Audit Log
- Secure Client Portal Link
- Audit-Ready PDF Reports
- Up to 3 Team Members
We Handle the Compliance, You Handle the Collection
Maintain enterprise-grade AML infrastructure and seamless onboarding automation, giving your existing team powerful compliance tools without adding expensive overhead.
Never Lose Momentum
Protect every transaction with instant entity verifications, ensuring high-value deals close smoothly without bureaucratic delays.
Automate Globally
Let automated screenings cross-reference international sanctions and beneficial ownership data silently in the background while your team rests.
Protect Asset Revenue
Eliminate client onboarding friction—frictionless compliance forms ensure premium collectors complete the transaction effortlessly.
Mapping the hidden vulnerabilities of a gallery transaction.
Automated AML Risk Assessment Matrix for High-Value Art Transactions
| Gallery Transaction Field | Why It Matters | KYC Protect Action |
|---|---|---|
| Artwork type | Primary sale, secondary resale, consignment, or estate changes risk | Inventory-aware AML classification |
| Buyer identity | Required for Customer Due Diligence (CDD) | KYC, biometric verification, document validation |
| Payer identity | Payer mismatch can indicate financial crime | Third-party payer review |
| Company or trust | Shell companies and trusts require ownership review | KYB, UBO data, beneficial ownership graph |
| Deposit history | Split payments may create linked transactions | Linked payment detection |
| Delivery country | Shipping jurisdiction can trigger red flags | Jurisdictional risk scoring |
| Sales team access | Sensitive documents should not be exposed broadly | Sales-safe status view |
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Client abandonment rate
<2%
False positive rate
Reducing Client Abandonment and False Positives in Art Market AML
KYC Protect keeps client onboarding friction exceptionally low, with less than 4% client abandonment, and keeps screening database arrays clean with a less than 2% false positive rate. In a global art market measured in tens of billions, that difference is not cosmetic. It is the difference between compliance workflow software for art transactions and revenue lost to friction.
Mapping Art Market Participant (AMP) Compliance to Regulation (EU) 2024/1624, FATF, and Global Frameworks
Art galleries become Art Market Participants (AMP) when they trade in or intermediate works of art and cultural goods that meet relevant AML thresholds. Our complete AML guide covers every obligation your business needs to meet.
KYC Protect translates these obligations into art market due diligence software for galleries: AML compliance, customer due diligence art market workflows, sanctions screening, PEP checks, identity verification, source of funds checks, source of wealth checks, beneficial ownership, ongoing monitoring, and audit-ready release control.
