Reseller agreement combines Markaaz business data with Zenoo's compliance orchestration to tackle entity verification at scale
7 May 2026
Zenoo, the compliance orchestration platform, and Markaaz, the global business identity and data network, today announced a signed reseller partnership that brings together enhanced business entity data and Zenoo's AML and compliance verification capabilities. The alliance is designed to improve fraud detection, complex ownership mapping, and entity matching for financial institutions and enterprise clients operating across multiple jurisdictions.
Solving the entity data problem in compliance
Financial institutions face a persistent challenge: the business data needed to verify counterparties, map beneficial ownership, and satisfy AML obligations is fragmented, inconsistent, and often incomplete, particularly in the US market where ownership registry coverage remains uneven. The Zenoo–Markaaz partnership directly targets this gap. Markaaz's global business identity network supplies enriched, structured entity data, while Zenoo's orchestration layer routes, scores, and surfaces that data as comprehensive compliance decisions. Together, the two platforms reduce the manual effort required to resolve complex entity relationships and flag high-risk structures before they become regulatory problems.
Proof of concept validated with tier-one clients
Before signing, the two companies ran a joint proof of concept scoped around three enterprise clients: Caterpillar Finance, Shawbrook Bank, and Agoda Dash Booking. The POC focused on AML and compliance verification workflows, testing the combined solution's ability to handle complex entity hierarchies, improve data accuracy, and surface ownership structures that legacy approaches miss. Results informed a series of product refinements ahead of full integration, with both teams prioritising demonstrations using live client data to validate real-world performance. The successful POC outcome gave both parties the confidence to formalise the arrangement through Master Reseller Terms and a Reseller Onboarding Document, both executed in late April 2026.
"Compliance teams have been working around incomplete business identity data for too long. What Markaaz brings to the table, structured, global entity data at scale, is exactly the missing layer our clients need to make faster, more confident decisions on AML and counterparty risk. We ran a rigorous proof of concept with real enterprise clients before signing, and the results convinced us this is a genuinely differentiated combination. We're not just adding another data source; we're closing a meaningful gap in the compliance stack."
Stuart Watkins, CEO, Zenoo
Reseller structure accelerates route to market
Under the Master Reseller Terms, Zenoo will bring Markaaz's business identity data to its existing client base and new prospects across financial services, fintech, and regulated enterprise markets. The reseller model allows Zenoo clients to access Markaaz data through a single integration point within the Zenoo platform, removing the need for separate procurement and onboarding cycles. This structure is expected to shorten time-to-value for compliance teams that need richer entity data without adding vendor complexity. Commercial go-to-market planning is already underway, with both teams coordinating on joint pipeline development and client communications.
"Reaching this stage with Zenoo is the result of months of careful, collaborative work, from the initial proof of concept through to executed agreements. We are extraordinarily excited about the partnership possibilities ahead. Zenoo's orchestration capability gives Markaaz data a direct route into the compliance workflows where it can have the most impact. Together we can help financial institutions and enterprise clients resolve entity relationships that have historically been too complex or too data-sparse to handle with confidence."
Yasmeen Jaffer, President, Markaaz
Addressing ownership data challenges in the US market
One of the most significant use cases identified during the POC was the challenge of beneficial ownership data quality in the United States, where inconsistent state-level registry requirements create blind spots for compliance teams. The Zenoo–Markaaz combination is positioned to help clients navigate this complexity by layering Markaaz's aggregated business identity signals on top of Zenoo's entity resolution and risk-scoring logic. The result is a more complete picture of who owns and controls a business entity, a capability that is increasingly critical as regulators in the US, UK, and EU tighten beneficial ownership disclosure requirements. Both companies see this as a primary growth vector for the partnership in the near term.
About Zenoo
Zenoo is a compliance orchestration platform that connects financial institutions and regulated businesses to a curated network of identity, AML, and entity verification data providers through a single integration. By orchestrating data flows, decisioning logic, and workflow automation in one place, Zenoo helps compliance teams reduce onboarding friction, improve detection accuracy, and respond faster to regulatory change. Zenoo works with banks, fintechs, and enterprise clients across the UK, Europe, and North America.
About Markaaz
Markaaz is a global business identity and data network that aggregates, structures, and enriches information on businesses worldwide. Its platform helps financial institutions, fintechs, and enterprise clients verify business entities, map ownership structures, and improve the accuracy of counterparty data used in AML, fraud prevention, and compliance workflows. Markaaz is particularly focused on addressing data gaps in markets where registry coverage is inconsistent, including the United States.
