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Understanding the business contact page

Learn what you will see on a business contact's page in Legl, including company information, screening status, and activity history.

Written by Ula Moyse-White

Overview

Use this article to understand what the business contact page shows in Legl, including company information, screening results, and activity history.


Where to find this

Go to Contacts, search for the business by name, and select their name to open their contact page.


What you will see

The business contact page is made up of several sections.

Company information

The company panel shows the contact's key details, including the company name, registration number, client reference number and address.

Company report

The company report shows publicly available information about the business, including structure & ownership, credit risk & financials and legal events.

Sanctions screening

If the business has been screened, the screening result and any flags will appear on their contact page.

Monitoring tab

The Monitoring tab shows the current monitoring status for the contact. This can be:

  • On: All — all changes are being monitored

  • On: Partial — some changes are being monitored. Hover over the status for details of what is included

  • Off — monitoring is not enabled for this contact

Activity tab

The Activity tab shows a log of all interactions associated with this contact, including:

  • Engage requests

  • Pay requests

  • CDD reports

  • Payments received

  • Screenings

Associated contacts tab

The Associated contacts tab shows the individuals, businesses and trusts linked to this business, such as directors, beneficial owners or a trust the business is part of. To link a trust, search for its name in the associations menu.


What you can do from this page

  • Update business details by hovering over a field and selecting Edit, entering the updated information, and saving

  • View the contact's full activity history from the Activity tab

  • Access linked individuals, businesses and trusts from the Associated contacts tab

  • Start a risk assessment for this contact. Select Start Risk Assessment and the contact is selected for you.


Important information

  • If you update a contact's email address, any open requests associated with that contact will be closed. You will need to resend those requests to the updated email address.

  • Most contact details can be updated by hovering over the field and selecting Edit.

  • If the Start Risk Assessment button is greyed out, you do not have the Start risk assessments permission. Hover over the button to see "You don't have permission to start risk assessments. Ask an admin at your firm to turn this on." Admins can turn it on for a user from Settings > Team & departments > Team > Actions > Edit permissions.

  • If you need help with a contact record, contact our Support team.

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