What is an Authorised Representative?

An onboarding or review decision can contain several different questions. Keeping this concept distinct helps the team assign the right evidence and decision owner, rather than rely on a single completed status.

Check the authority to sign or submit an application rather than inferring it from a company email address. Start by defining the question the team needs to answer. Identify the relevant record or evidence, check its scope and date, and retain the reasoning behind the result. If evidence conflicts, keep that conflict visible for review.

Illustrative workflow: a team reviewing a business adds a separate check for authorised representative. The reviewer’s task is to check the authority to sign or submit an application rather than inferring it from a company email address. The outcome is recorded together with the supporting evidence; an unresolved question stays open rather than being converted into a positive result.

Authorised Representative belongs to the business identity & verification topic family. Read Know Your Business (KYB) alongside it to understand the adjacent question. Each page has its own intended scope; shared context does not make the concepts equivalent.

The practical boundary is important: Check the authority to sign or submit an application rather than inferring it from a company email address. Do not substitute a related label for this check or assume that missing information is a negative finding. Source-specific and jurisdiction-specific rules require their own review.