> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://v2.docs.conduit.financial/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cabo Verde > How to collect KYB documents from business customers in Cabo Verde (CPV) when onboarding through the Conduit API. ## Overview | Field | Value | | ------------ | ------------------------------------------ | | Region | Africa | | ISO 3166-1 | CV / CPV | | Registry | DGRNI (Conservatória do Registo Comercial) | | Last updated | 2026-05-06 | ## Identifiers Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Cabo Verde and submit them as strings on the application body. | API field | Local name | Issuer | | ------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ | | `businessInfo.taxId` | **NIF (Número de Identificação Fiscal)** | DNRE (Ministry of Finance) | | `businessInfo.businessEntityId` | **Número do Registo Comercial** | DGRNI (Conservatória do Registo Comercial) | *Tax ID:* 9-digit number; companies begin with "2". Issued same-day via Empresa no Dia. *Registration number:* Assigned at registration; appears on the Certidão do Registo Comercial. ## Sector regulators `BCV` · `UIF` ## Legal structures | Local name | Abbreviation | Description | | --------------------- | ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Sociedade por Quotas | Lda. | Quota-based limited-liability company; the standard SME vehicle; managed by one or more gerentes; no minimum capital since the 2019 reform. Equivalent to a US LLC. | | Sociedade Anónima | SA | Joint-stock company with transferable shares and separate legal personality; minimum share capital required; suited for larger capital investments and institutional shareholders. Equivalent to a US C-Corp. | | Sociedade Cooperativa | — | Member-owned cooperative governed by specific cooperative legislation; profits distributed according to member participation rather than capital contribution. Closest US equivalent: Cooperative. | ## How documents combine For each evidence area, this table shows whether the listed documents are alternatives (any one of) or a bundle (all required). The artifact-by-artifact lookup follows below. | Evidence area | Documents needed | | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | Legal Registration | Certidão do Registo Comercial | | Constitutive Documents | *Any one of:* Estatutos · Pacto Social | | Tax Registration | Cartão NIF | | Operating Permit | Alvará de Actividade | | Ownership Records | Estatutos | | Governance Records | *All required:* Estatutos + Acta de Nomeação | | Signing Authority | *Any one of:* Acta da Assembleia Geral · Procuração Notarial | | Address | *Any one of:* Contrato de Arrendamento · Recibo de Serviços · Extrato Bancário | | Good Standing | Certidão do Registo Comercial | ## Documents to collect The physical documents you'll collect from your customer, with the evidence area each one proves. One document can prove multiple areas — for example, Brazil's Cartão CNPJ covers both tax and business-registration proof, so it appears once with both areas listed. | Document | Proves | | ----------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Certidão do Registo Comercial (DGRNI)** | Legal Registration, Good Standing | | **Estatutos** | Constitutive Documents, Ownership Records, Governance Records | | **Pacto Social** | Constitutive Documents | | **Cartão NIF** | Tax Registration | | **Alvará de Actividade** | Operating Permit | | **Acta de Nomeação** | Governance Records | | **Acta da Assembleia Geral** | Signing Authority | | **Procuração Notarial** | Signing Authority | | **Contrato de Arrendamento** | Address | | **Recibo de Serviços (≤90 dias)** | Address | | **Extrato Bancário (≤90 dias)** | Address | | **Sector-Specific License** | Licença BCV | ### Collection notes * **Legal Registration:** Issued same-day via Empresa no Dia at Casa do Cidadão; evidences legal existence and registration number. * **Constitutive Documents:** Private document for Lda; public deed (escritura pública) required if contributions are in kind. * **Tax Registration:** Issued by DNRE; bundled with commercial registration via Empresa no Dia. * **Operating Permit:** Issued by Câmara Municipal for retail/general trade; sector-specific variants issued by line ministries. * **Sector-Specific License:** Required for banking, insurance, capital markets, microfinance, and payment services — all supervised by BCV. * **Ownership Records:** Estatutos record the initial quota / share distribution and name founding gerentes; post-formation ownership changes are recorded via Acta de Cessão de Quotas filed at DGRNI. * **Governance Records:** Estatutos name founding gerentes/administradores; subsequent changes filed via Acta de Nomeação at DGRNI. * **Signing Authority:** Board resolution (Acta) for corporate signatories; notarised power of attorney (Procuração) for external representatives. * **Address:** Conduit universal policy: lease (no time bound) OR utility bill OR bank statement, with utility/bank dated within 90 days. Same evidence satisfies both registered-address and operating-address checks. * **Good Standing:** Cabo Verde does not issue a separate Certificate of Good Standing. The Certidão do Registo Comercial issued by DGRNI via Casa do Cidadão / Empresa no Dia reflects current commercial-registry status (existence, registration number, registered address, situation) and serves the active-status function. Accept a Certidão dated within 90 days. ## Person roles When you submit a person on the application body, set their `role` to one of Conduit's canonical `BusinessPersonRole` values. Use this table to map a local corporate-governance title onto the right canonical role. | Local role | Canonical API role | Description | | --------------------------------------- | ---------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Gerente | `LEGAL_REPRESENTATIVE` | Appointed manager of Lda; legally represents company to third parties. | | Administrador | `CONTROLLING_PERSON` | Executive director in SA; day-to-day management authority. | | Presidente do Conselho de Administração | `CONTROLLING_PERSON` | Chair of the SA board; governance not operational. | | Mandatário / Procurador | `LEGAL_REPRESENTATIVE` | Holder of notarised Procuração; authorised to act on company's behalf. | ## Notes * Cabo Verde is not OHADA; its company law is Portuguese-origin, now fully replaced by the 2019 Código das Sociedades Comerciais (Decreto-Legislativo nº 2/2019, in force 22 October 2019) — do not apply OHADA SARL/SA templates. * Bearer shares were abolished by the 2019 code; all shares must be nominative. Pre-2019 bearer shares were required to convert to nominative by 22 January 2021 (Miranda Advogados, October 2019 alert). * Apostille is available: Cabo Verde acceded to the Hague Apostille Convention (accession 7-V-2009, in force 13-II-2010 per HCCH status table). * The Empresa no Dia one-stop service (Casa do Cidadão counters, run by DGRNI) issues the commercial certificate, NIF, and INPS registration simultaneously for eligible structures; this compressed timeline is the default.