Why is the Popularity of e-KYC Rising?

Why is the Popularity of e-KYC Rising?

Capital Markets CIO Outlook | Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Adoption of e-KYC promises to standardize core verification and validation operations that include evaluating customer profiles and analyzing risks before delivering services.  

FREMONT, CA: Professionals from finance companies well-understand the need for adopting standard customer identification solutions and analyzing the risk before offering any service. Know Your Customer (KYC) enables financial institutions to access complete information of customers that include income, authentications, ongoing policies, and more. Such in-depth information allows financial service providers to verify customer authenticity while performing Customer Due Diligence (CDD). The introduction of electronic KYC (e-KYC) proves to upgrade such operations and effectively address the challenges of conventional methods.  

e-KYC works through a digital ID system of the customers that hold every financial detail. The feature upgrades customer identification and verification methodologies by retrieving basic information and improving the onboarding process. The reduction in paper-based document evaluation procedures minimizes the cost and time spent on verification, makes it more affordable for low-income customers to access services.

Today, the majority of individuals prefer digital applications for accessing services, even for financial services. e-KYC proves to fit perfectly in this modern era of digital infrastructure. Technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence, and more create a secure network of ID systems, eliminating the interference of third parties for transactions or customer data access. This not only creates opportunities for a direct connection between service providers and customers through ID systems but also reduces the cost of the transaction, encouraging more individuals to enroll in the e-KYC system. 

Lesser involvement of any third party across the identification, verification, and service delivery networks contributes to strengthening customer safety, security, and privacy. Such initiatives taken by the finance institutions create a brilliant, secure platform work system, where the risk level lowers for delivering financial services with the increase in data accuracy and speed up document verification processes. Modern-day finance institutions need to harness e-KYC solutions for standardizing the core operations.

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