How Artificial Intelligence is Revamping KYC and AML?

Oliver Smith
Shufti Pro
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3 min readFeb 24, 2020

Artificial Intelligence has paved many innovative pathways that uncover different transformations in every sector. AI has introduced new standards in facilities like Know Your Customer KYC and Anti Money Laundering (AML) that help in tracking malicious transactions and associated future risks. AI-powered overall monitoring helps to battle against risks and frauds. AI ensures intelligent decision making which is required to know what is cooking inside a system.

Artificial intelligence, combing through mounds of data, process client profile verification, to enhance the due diligence process in an organization. This helps in identifying high-risk customers as well. To perform multitasking by replacing strenuous human effort AI processing can be used. So AI not only saves the businesses money but money and valuable time is also spared to put in some other productive organizational tasks. Machine Learning clubbed with AI enhances the operations efficiently, particularly in labor-intensive areas this hybrid technology automates the system.

AI- Integrating new Features in KYC:

Businesses these days are in dire need of complying with KYC and AML checks which can be automated and performed in a matter of seconds due to AI integration. AI-based technologies can help in digital identity verification, AML screening and transaction monitoring of identities. AI-powered KYC solutions are used to perform document verification in mere seconds to authenticate the address and true identities of individuals. This technology captures the template of a document, runs spoofing and photoshopped tests to make sure that the document has not tampered. With unique OCR features, data can be extracted out of the document to verify its authenticity Similarly biometric verification is more clever with AI integration, 3D liveness detection can be done to mitigate face spoofing attacks. So AI-powered KYC solutions perform efficient verification to fight back any scam or a cyber-criminal activity.

How is AI Transforming KYC and AML Solutions?

Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence is the most innovative technology. It is changing industries all around the globe through automation and machine learning. Banks are also making many optimized operations using AI. Let’s have a tour to some of the use cases of AI in identity verification solutions:

Workflow Automation

We all know how cumbersome manual identity verification is but AI has automated this task and delivered revolutionary results. AI has reduced human interaction by automating the process of gathering data and easing the analysis process by making it time-efficient and cost-effective. For instance, the OCR extraction feature is added to get customers details from the document automatically rather than manually writing them which expects errors. Users can upload the picture of a document displaying the required information and it is easily extracted using OCR.

Link Analysis

The most enthusiastic feature of AI is to identify various transactions leading to Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO). AI through data processing has the capability to extract meaningful information from a vast array of data, even the unstructured one. It is a huge assistance for regulators, who are trying to connect links between different transactions happening around the world increasing the advantages of the automated identity authentication process.

Maintaining Compliance and Regulatory Changes

A subfield of AI, Natural Language Processing has the ability to read and comprehend the meanings of important details from the text. NLP can help the business to stay up to date with the KYC compliances and restrict bad actors as the regulatory environment is always changing at a high pace. By providing an effective identity verification mechanism for the finance sector AI has proven to be instrumental in fighting fraud and remaining in compliance with KYC regulations. With AI, businesses can eliminate the risks of money laundering, terror financing, lessen human error, and remain in compliance with regulations.

Owing to the increase in digital business transformation and growing cybercrimes it is essential to make businesses secure. Machine learning algorithms have the capability to successfully eliminate fraud and make the customer experience seamless.

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Oliver Smith
Oliver Smith

Written by Oliver Smith

Oliver Smith is a technical writer and editor. His tech-education and journalism has provided him with a wide knowledge base related to technology.