Digital customer onboarding software manages the client onboarding process for financial services companies. Financial institutions leverage these tools to provide their customers with a streamlined, digital process for signing up for financial services. The software captures customer data, verifies customer documents, runs that data through a KYC/AML check, creates customer accounts, and facilitates user adoption. Additionally, the solutions provide identity verification functionality to ensure compliance with know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations.
Solutions in this category orchestrate customer onboarding journeys, automating the onboarding process for financial institutions from end to end. Some digital customer onboarding tools use AI-powered features to secure live proof of document possession by capturing a selfie with the users’ face and official document, usually a government-issued ID, to verify possession. In addition, digital customer onboarding software typically integrates with digital banking platforms and core banking software.
Regulatory compliance is an integral part of the onboarding process for financial services, so these solutions contain prebuilt rules that can be updated as required to ensure adherence to the wide array of financial services regulations. Digital customer onboarding solutions ensure regulatory compliance financial regulations which include KYC, AML/CTF, FATCA, CRS, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, and MiFID II.
To qualify for inclusion in the digital customer onboarding software category, a product must:
- Comply with know your customer (KYC) regulations
- Provide a client interface for onboarding
- Allow users to orchestrate customer onboarding journeys
- Be designed primarily for use in financial services
- Include identity verification functionality
