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<div class="brand-mark">OBFC</div>
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One-Stop Business Facilitation Centre
<small>Kingdom of Lesotho</small>
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<a href="#features">Features</a>
<a href="https://businessregistrations.gov.ls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">businessregistrations.gov.ls</a>
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<div class="hero-bar">A new generation of business registry</div>
<h1 class="hero-title">Trust, <span class="light">by design.</span></h1>
<p class="hero-lede">
Lesotho's One-Stop Business Facilitation Centre brings together what citizens, entrepreneurs and partners expect from a modern business registry: secure identity, services that fit each situation, automatic reminders, online signature, clear governance, and reliable public information.
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<div class="section-eyebrow">Six core features</div>
<h2 class="section-title">What makes <span class="light">OBFC different</span></h2>
<p class="section-intro">
A business registry is more than a list of companies. It is the place where entrepreneurs declare who they are, what they do, and what they commit to — and where everyone else can rely on that information. The OBFC registry is built around six features that, together, place it among a new generation of electronic registries.
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<div class="card-num-big">01</div>
<div class="card-num-label">Identity</div>
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<h3>A strong electronic identity for every user</h3>
<p>
Before using the OBFC platform, every user goes through a simple but thorough <strong>KYC process</strong> — "Know Your Customer". The platform verifies the user's identity document and confirms the person is who they claim to be, by comparing the photo on the ID with a live picture taken during registration.
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<p>
The result is an <strong>electronic identity</strong> firmly linked to a real, verified person. Every subsequent action on the registry — opening a company, signing a document, submitting a change — carries the weight of that verified identity.
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<div class="card-num-big">02</div>
<div class="card-num-label">Tailored</div>
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<h3>Services that know you</h3>
<p>
Because the registry knows who the user is, it offers services that fit <strong>each particular situation</strong>. Someone who already has a registered company is asked whether they want to modify it or create a new one — not presented with a long generic menu.
</p>
<p>
And data already provided is <strong>reused automatically</strong> for further requests. Information is given once. The registry remembers it and applies it everywhere it is needed.
</p>
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<span class="card-example-label">In practice</span>
Logging in to renew a licence, the user finds their name, address, ID number and existing company details already filled in. They confirm and sign.
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<div class="card-num-big">03</div>
<div class="card-num-label">Reminders</div>
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<h3>Automatic reminders for your obligations</h3>
<p>
The registry sends an <strong>email and an SMS</strong> before any certificate expires — whether it is a business ID or a licence. Five reminders are sent, leaving plenty of time to act.
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<div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-num">45</div><div class="tl-label">days</div></div>
<div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-num">30</div><div class="tl-label">days</div></div>
<div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-num">15</div><div class="tl-label">days</div></div>
<div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-num">7</div><div class="tl-label">days</div></div>
<div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-num">1</div><div class="tl-label">day</div></div>
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<p>
Each message takes the user directly to a <strong>simple pre-filled form</strong>: pay to extend, update information, or formally close the activity — in a few clicks. Deadlines are no longer missed because of forgotten dates or undelivered letters.
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<div class="card-num-big">04</div>
<div class="card-num-label">Signature</div>
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<h3>Electronic signature, fully online</h3>
<p>
Every request to create or modify a sole proprietorship or a company can be <strong>signed online</strong>. This is possible precisely because every user has a strong, verified electronic identity (Feature 1).
</p>
<p>
A signature is the way an identified person clearly commits to the content of a document. On the OBFC platform, the first expression of the signature is the user <strong>clicking an approval button</strong> on the document, then confirmed by <strong>two-factor authentication</strong>: the user enters a code received on their registered phone or device, in addition to their password. The signature is then linked to that exact document, that exact person, at that exact moment.
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<span class="card-example-label">What this replaces</span>
The traditional cycle of printing, hand-signing, scanning, queuing at a counter, and posting originals. The same legal value, completed in minutes.
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<div class="card-num-big">05</div>
<div class="card-num-label">Governance</div>
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<h3>Clear and effective governance rules</h3>
<p>
At the moment of creation, founders can clearly define <strong>the rules that apply to decisions</strong> by shareholders and directors:
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<p>
Which decisions need shareholder approval? For each one, what percentage of shareholders must agree? When there is more than one director, can each one sign alone, or do some decisions require a majority — or all of them — to agree?
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<p>
The registry then <strong>applies these rules automatically</strong> when decisions are submitted: changing the company name, increasing the capital, appointing or removing a director. The result is unambiguous — no informal arrangements, no later disputes about what was agreed.
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<div class="card-number">
<div class="card-num-big">06</div>
<div class="card-num-label">Public information</div>
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<h3>Quality information, made public</h3>
<p>
One of the most fundamental roles of a public registry is to <strong>provide reliable information</strong> to anyone who needs it. The new OBFC registry takes this role seriously: information about businesses is accurate, kept up to date, and accessible.
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<p>
Anyone considering doing business with a Lesotho company can check the essentials before committing:
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<span class="chip">Who are the <strong>directors</strong>?</span>
<span class="chip">Are they entitled to <strong>contract a loan</strong> for this amount?</span>
<span class="chip">Is there a <strong>pledge or a lien</strong> on the shares or on the company?</span>
<span class="chip">Has the company started a <strong>liquidation procedure</strong>?</span>
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This information is valuable for banks, suppliers, customers and partners. Making it public, accurate and easy to access is how a modern registry supports a healthy business environment.
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<div class="closing-mark">✓</div>
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Six features, one direction: a registry that is trustworthy because it knows who is using it, useful because it adapts to each situation, and valuable <span class="light">because the information it holds can be relied upon.</span>
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