Know Your Customer (KYC) is the process of verifying your customer’s identity, usually using compliance solutions and screening software. The goal is to identify the clients that are most at risk of financial crime. Verifying the identity of someone you … Read More
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Understanding Your Customer (UYC): An Evolution of KYC
In the past two decades, significant advances have been made in how organisations achieve compliance with Anti-Money Laundering regulations. From huge strides in KYC technology to the sheer volume of data that is now readily available to regulated businesses to … Read More
Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Business (KYB) checks: What is the difference?
Financial crime is rife. As dishonest individuals, or bad actors as we know them, develop new ways of committing economically-motivated transgressions, businesses have to ensure they keep pace in fighting their crimes. Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Business … Read More
Compliance Cost of Amber Management
A world of binary results of either pass or fail, (Green or Red) would be nirvana; but that just isn’t realistic. There will always be cases that require further due diligence before you safely commit to onboard, or continue to interact with the customer, or not. Ambers are those cases that fall between the ‘accept’ or ‘decline and cause your business a challenge. … Read More
Building Societies Digital Transformation
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Why is ultimate beneficial ownership verification important?
Ultimate Beneficial ownership verification and ongoing monitoring is now an essential component of the KYC onboarding and anti-financial crime procedures. However, peeling back the complex legal structures designed to conceal Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO) represents a significant challenge. In this blog, we explore the confusion over multiple beneficial ownerships, the complexity share structures, understanding Trusts and how you minimise risk exposure when onboarding and monitoring UBOs. … Read More
Beneficial Ownership Monitoring is Fundamental for Global Economic Recovery
How well do you know your customer? As the pandemic continues on a global level, your clients’ risk status is changing at unparalleled speed. Effective ‘continuous KYC monitoring’ is essential for Compliance Officers if they want to stay ahead of the criminals. In 2020 firms have made significant investments in digitally transforming the front end of compliance at the point of onboarding, however many firms have not digitally transformed their monitoring processes, exposing their business to increasing levels of risk. In this blog we explore ongoing monitoring further. … Read More
Guide to Ongoing KYC Monitoring
Effective ‘continuous KYC monitoring’ is essential for Compliance Officers if they want to stay ahead of the criminals and satisfy the regulators. During 2020 many firms expedited the digital transformation of the front end of compliance, at the point of onboarding, due to the global pandemic and the need to meet the demand for digital interactions. These investments should now be used across the entire customer lifecycle to avoid exposing their business to increasing levels of risk. In this blog we explore the importance of ongoing monitoring in 2021. … Read More
Automated Client Onboarding
Efficient and ‘friction-free’ client onboarding is the key to customer engagement for any regulated business, but the need to balance this against the demands of the regulators is critical. … Read More
Configurable Risk-Based Regulatory Rules Engine
The ever-evolving regulatory landscape in which firms operate in means client risk management is becoming more complex and time-consuming, ultimately impinging on the overall customer experience. To simplify the complexity of KYC onboarding and monitoring an agile risk-based rules engine is the answer.
In this blog, we discuss why a highly configurable rules engine is critical to the customer experience, operational efficiency and future-proofing of your compliance processes. … Read More