UAE shipping KYC in 2026: the party data behind MPCI filings
The UAE's maritime pre-load rules require actual shipper and consignee details for covered container cargo. Here is what took effect in October 2026 and where company checks fit.
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The EU’s 2027 AML rules will change cross-border onboarding
The coming EU framework changes how covered firms assess customers across member states. Cross-border teams need to distinguish the rules governing their review from the country supplying the evidence.
From a year-long integration to under a month.
At the SME Forum on Transformation, Matthew Lee explained how moving verified data delivery from an API to an AI agent in an email inbox changed the timeline with China CITIC Bank International.
For every account opened online, 3.36 are abandoned.
Asking customers to retype information adds work. Government digital identity can reduce that work when it supplies the details and verification evidence your firm needs.
A photo check cannot know a card was reported lost.
A deepfake syndicate opened bank accounts with lost Hong Kong ID cards. The HKMA's new remote on-boarding circular asks banks to make sure what they rely on is genuine.
Fill Easy at LEAP East Hong Kong
A few days at LEAP East Hong Kong: a pitch, a booth, and conversations with founders, investors and partners about verifying people and companies across markets.
Fill Easy Completes PCPD Inspection on GBA Standard Contract Compliance
Fill Easy has completed an inspection by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data covering its cross-boundary data transfer operations under the GBA Standard Contract.
Innovation in Action: Fill Easy on the IFPHK AI & FinTech Day 2026 Panel
At IFPHK's AI and FinTech Day 2026, the harder questions: where responsibility sits when models fail, and why infrastructure readiness — not adoption — is the real bottleneck.
Digital ID Makes the Front Page of the Hong Kong Economic Journal
Deepfakes are putting document and selfie checks under pressure. HKEJ’s front-page coverage brings attention to the role government digital identity can play in customer verification.
Fill Easy Named 2nd Runner-Up at the IADS Developer Hackathon
Fill Easy took 2nd Runner-Up at the IADS Developer Hackathon, showing how open banking can transform audit, accounting and compliance.
Selected for Accenture’s FinTech Innovation Lab.
Fill Easy joins the Asia-Pacific programme with live identity-verification deployments and a focus on institutional onboarding.
Into the EPIC HK semi-finals.
Fill Easy places in the top 100 from more than 1,200 global applicants to HKSTP’s startup pitch competition.
Preparing to verify customers across Asia and Europe.
Our Malta operating hub supports plans to connect Asian and European identity verification, building on our Greater Bay Area work.
An expanded filing for GBA data transfer.
Standard Contract filing No. 202500031 supports Fill Easy’s Mainland China to Hong Kong personal-data transfer route.
Fill Easy at HKSTP Partnerships' New Year Connect
An evening of connection and gratitude with 100+ corporate partners and tech ventures at HKSTP Partnerships' New Year Connect.
Moderating AI Security & Third-Party Risk at HKSTP's Trusted AI in Practice
Fill Easy moderated the AI Security & Third-Party Risk panel at HKSTP's Trusted AI in Practice seminar, with speakers from the HKMA, HSBC and Prudential.
ISO 27001:2022. Independently certified.
An independent assessment of the information-security management system behind Fill Easy’s verification services.
A Fill Easy Team Trip to Huafa Snow World
After a monumental year of growth, the Fill Easy team headed to Huafa Snow World in the Greater Bay Area — for some, a first trip to Mainland China.
Malta Enterprise backs our European hub.
A Business Development Scheme grant of up to €300,000 supports the establishment of Fill Easy’s Maltese operations.
iAM Smart comes to MoneyGo and Jump.
With Innotech System, Fill Easy connects money-lender onboarding to Hong Kong’s government identity platform.
GovVerify recognised at the Hong Kong ICT Awards.
A Certificate of Merit in the FinTech RegTech: Regulatory and Risk Management stream at the 2025 awards.
Fill Easy Speaking at GBA x AI 2025
Fill Easy joined a GBA x AI 2025 panel, hosted with HSBC and HKSTP, on how SMEs can leverage AI to expand into the Greater Bay Area.
A working onboarding flow at FinTech Week.
At the HKSTP Pavilion, Fill Easy demonstrated GovVerify and its live Prudential Hong Kong deployment.
Prudential brings NFC identity into PRUSubmit.
A tap of an identity document connects the insurance application journey to authorised statutory sources.
Runner-up at Insurtech Insights Asia.
Fill Easy’s pitch showed how insurers can verify customers through government identity systems, including in GBA onboarding.
Bring screening into the verification flow.
Identity verification and AML screening answer different questions. A connected workflow makes the evidence easier to review together.
UBS brings multiple registries into one KYB review.
CorpVerify supports corporate due diligence across jurisdictions, with a particular focus on Mainland company evidence.
Chocolate Finance launches with iAM Smart onboarding.
GovVerify connects the platform’s Hong Kong customer journey to government-confirmed identity data.
Build KYC around the customer journey.
Connect identification, due diligence and ongoing review through a clear record of the customer and the evidence.
Fill Easy joins Malaysia’s MyHeart Innovate programme.
TalentCorp Malaysia and BEYOND4’s programme connects Fill Easy with local institutions and partners as we develop our regional plans.
Syfe connects account opening to iAM Smart.
Government-confirmed identity supports a Hong Kong onboarding journey without the initial transfer used in the previous verification process.
