Fenergo Spearheads KYC Utilities Efficiency Drive and Reduces Cost of Compliance

e-KYC Connect standardizes KYC data for industry best practice 

DUBLIN, Ireland, Jan. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Fenergo, the leading provider of digital Client Lifecycle Management solutions (CLM) for financial institutions, today announces the launch of Fenergo e-KYC Connect, a solution which allows financial institutions to maximize the efficiency and economic benefits of know your customer (KYC) utility services. A component of Fenergo's Digital Client Orchestration solution, e-KYC Connect enables financial institutions which subscribe to a KYC utility to instantly share, access and verify customer KYC data.

Financial institutions were fined $26 billion for KYC and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance breaches in the past decade and prevailing inefficiencies are responsible. Utilities underpinned by a repository of standardized data can address this efficiency challenge by streamlining and expediating the entire KYC compliance process.

With this consistency of data standards, financial institutions and other utility members including Government agencies, can quickly and easily access, share and re-use verified KYC data from the utility to accelerate client onboarding, reduce costs, ensure regulatory certainty while enhancing the customer experience. e-KYC Connect provides a self-service portal for the end customer to upload KYC documents and consent for their data to be shared within a KYC utility network of financial institutions. This single client view allows the customer to quickly and seamlessly purchase a financial product or open an account with other financial institution utility subscribers.

Niall Twomey, Chief Technology Officer, Fenergo: "KYC utilities in principle should provide huge efficiency gains for consortiums of financial institutions and other organizations but success relies on consistent data standards across all participants. Without standards and best practice, data quality is impaired making verification onerous and costly. All of this has dire consequences for the end customer experience. With Fenergo's e-KYC Connect, financial institutions that are part of a utility network can lay a solid foundation with high quality, standardized data that can be easily shared by all members of a KYC utility for rapid, frictionless onboarding and regulatory surety."

Fenergo's client, Bahrain's Electronic Network for Financial Transactions (BENEFIT), is utilizing e-KYC Connect to simplify and streamline KYC processes for its network of subscribers. Click here for the full case study video.

About Fenergo

Fenergo is the digital enabler of client and regulatory technology for financial services. It provides digital Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) software solutions for Financial Institutions including Corporate & Institutional Banking, Commercial & Retail Banking, Asset Management & Asset Servicing, Private Banking & Wealth Management. Counting 70+ global Financial Institutions as clients, its award-winning CLM suite digitally transforms how Financial Institutions manage clients; from initial onboarding to KYC/AML and regulatory compliance, to data management and ongoing lifecycle KYC reviews and refreshes. Fenergo CLM empowers financial institutions to deliver a faster, compliant and digital customer experience while achieving a single client view across channels, products, business lines and jurisdictions. Fenergo is quickly becoming the KYC backbone for banks, where a common set of Fenergo KYC services are being leveraged across the bank agnostic of business vertical, product, jurisdiction or client type. This backbone trades increasing complexity for well-designed simplicity.