Trade Account Application
GEMIA WORLD LTD - Company No. 16632806 - Registered office: 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London, England, W1W 5PF.
This application opens a business-to-business trade account for certification, authentication and valuation services. GEMIA WORLD LTD collects this information to verify the businesses it trades with, to meet its obligations under UK and EU anti-money-laundering law, and to screen against sanctions lists. Do not upload identity documents here. If your application proceeds, GEMIA will request certified copies through a secure channel.
Trading name if different
Country of incorporation
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Company registration number
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VAT or tax registration number
Registered office address
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Trading address if different
Is your business registered or supervised for anti-money-laundering purposes?
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Supervisor name and registration number
Beneficial owners holding 25 percent or more
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For each person give full name, date of birth, nationality and country of residence
Directors and authorised signatories
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For each person give full name and position
Is any beneficial owner, director or close associate a politically exposed person?
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If yes, give details of the politically exposed person
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Countries you operate in or source goods from
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Does your business accept cash payments of 10,000 pounds or more?
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How GEMIA uses this information
GEMIA WORLD LTD (company number 16632806), registered office 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London, England, W1W 5PF, is the data controller for the information you provide.
Why we collect it. To assess and verify this application, to decide whether to open a trade account, and to meet our obligations under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 and equivalent requirements in the EU. Our lawful bases are the taking of steps at your request before entering a contract, compliance with a legal obligation, and our legitimate interest in verifying the businesses we trade with.
Who sees it. GEMIA personnel involved in account opening; our forms provider Tally, based in Belgium, which stores submissions within the European Economic Area; and, where verification requires it, company registries, sanctions and politically exposed person screening providers, and credit reference and fraud prevention agencies.
How long we keep it. Records relating to customer due diligence are kept for five years from the end of the business relationship, as the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require. Applications that do not proceed are deleted within twelve months.
Your rights. You may request access to your personal data, its correction or erasure, restriction of or objection to its processing, and its portability. Where we rely on your consent you may withdraw it at any time. Write to careline@gemia.world. You may also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk, or to the supervisory authority in your own country if you are in the EEA. No decision about this application is made by automated means alone.
Submitting this application does not create a contract and does not oblige GEMIA WORLD LTD to open an account or supply services. GEMIA may verify any information given and may decline an application, or suspend an account, without giving reasons. Information that later proves inaccurate may result in refusal or suspension. Our full privacy policy and terms are at gemia.world.
