SOLUTION

Customer Due Diligence (CDD) & Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)

Stay a step ahead of regulatory due diligence demands throughout the life of a customer relationship.

Strengthen your customer intelligence and know your customer (KYC) processes

CDD is the cornerstone of effective customer risk management. To maximize effectiveness, CDD/EDD processes need to be streamlined across the entire customer life cycle. Data collected at account opening, but not utilized during the assessment of future customer activity, is a lost opportunity and a blind spot in customer risk assessment.

Verafin ties all stages of the customer lifecycle together. From customer onboarding to ongoing surveillance of your customer base with intelligent high-risk customer segmentation agents, Verafin provides you with a complete, customer-centric CDD solution — helping you accurately assess the customers that pose the greatest criminal risk to your institution.

Features

CONFIGURABLE ACCOUNT OPENING QUESTIONNAIRE

Ensure front-line staff can quickly collect information on new personal and business accounts, necessary for customer assessment and identification. The information collected integrates into Verafin for enhanced risk stratification and ongoing surveillance.

ULTIMATE BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP INFORMATION

Capture beneficial ownership information, including control and ownership prongs, for new accounts and established customers.

CUSTOM NOTIFICATIONS

Verafin allows you to customize in-line notifications for your account opening questionnaire. When onboarding new high-risk customers, automatic messages can prompt front-line staff to collect EDD documents, or to take additional measures, based on your institution’s BSA/AML compliance policies.

END-TO-END HIGH-RISK CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT

Verafin’s intelligent risk categorization effectively manages high-risk customers, providing you with a more accurate assessment and understanding of your customer risk profile. Segmentation agents help you identify previously unknown high-risk customers within your customer base, to properly assess, categorize and manage them.

ONGOING CUSTOMER SURVEILLANCE

Verafin monitors customer activity throughout their relationship with your institution and alerts you to additional risk factors or activities that exceeds those declared at account opening.

CDD/EDD WORKFLOWS

Create EDD workflows for your high-risk customers with Verafin’s fully integrated case management functionality. With categories that align with your institution’s risk policies, and customizable review processes including review dates, email reminders, and task assignments, Verafin centralizes and streamlines your EDD processes.

Benefits

Complete understanding of the risks within your customer base

Verafin automatically creates a risk profile for each of your customers with stratified risk levels and categories that align with your institution’s risk policies. Assessment is based on numerous parameters, including entity, geographic, and product risk factors — presented in a color-coded Customer Risk Scoring dashboard.

Quickly assess customer risk assessments to save time on your due diligence process

Verafin reduces the compliance burden and improves efficiency by managing high-risk customers in a targeted way. Our intelligent risk categorization approach identifies, categorizes, stratifies, and actively monitors ongoing high-risk customer activity. This enables BSA/AML professionals to perform powerful and efficient ongoing due diligence that is in line with the true risk the customer poses to the institution.

Enriched customer profiles with standardized data

Verafin’s account opening questionnaire includes tools that help standardize collection of customer information, from defined value ranges for expected transactions, to a convenient NAICS Code Finder that automatically suggests the correct NAICS code to the front-line users.

Effective management of high-risk customers

Verafin presents you with a visual representation of all entities and accounts with a relationship to a particular customer, helping you understand the bigger picture of potential risk and complete more in-depth due diligence.

More Verafin Features

Enterprise reporting. With hundreds of ad-hoc data reports, and the ability to create custom reports that include the information fields you need, Verafin helps improve auditing, reporting and record-keeping of all aspects of your fraud and AML detection efforts. Learn more >

Integrated case management. Integrated case management functionality lets you create a fully audited and tracked investigation. Upload related files, assign tasks to other users, and document your decisions — all in one location. Learn more >
Watch list scanning. Verafin automatically scans your customers nightly against installed watch lists, including OFAC, 314(a), and internally-created lists. You can also manually search watch lists for entities at any time. Learn more >
Automated SAR functionality. At the click of a button you can create a pre-populated SAR. Complete your narrative and queue it for overnight electronic submission directly from Verafin to FinCEN. Verafin can also remind you when it is time for 90-day refiling, if the suspicious activity continues. Learn more >

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