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5. Winning against the KYC Competition

The following groups are likely to be our key competition for Contextual KYC. 

Key competitor groups

Where they are strong

Where they are Weak

Data Providers/Aggregators

[BvD, D&B, Encompass, Know Your Customer]

  • They provide relevant data to help banks pre-fill customer records and validate customer provided information.
  • Have strong data coverage in most western nations
  • Moody's has acquired a number of solutions to make a strong play in KYC (BVD, RDC, Kompany, Passfort).  They are still primarily focused on external data, Passfort provides a workflow solution to manage KYC processes connected with Orbid, Grid and Kompany data.
  • Typically corporate focused
  • Data providers/aggregators are focused only on external data and typically don't have any mechanisms for combining external data with internal data.
  • Many have challenges with internal ER resolving different datasets together.  (D&B and Moody's have not licensed Quantexa ER to improve)
  • Any pKYC triggering process will be focused on external data only and will lack the ability to correlate with client data and add client specific materiality.

End to End KYC Solutions

[Actimize, Oracle, BAE Systems]

  • Provide Enterprise Platform with Case Management, Risk Scoring and KYC data model to check the box on workflow, risk rating and investigations.
  • On-prem or SaaS deployments
  • Regulators are 
  • Older approach to KYC leads to longer investigation times, less than accurate customer risk rating
  • Don't have a strong ER capabilities focused on KYC
  • Focus on customer records and not broader network for risk rating and investigations

Screening Providers

  • SaaS delivery models that can integrate well into existing processes and workflow/CLM providers through API's
  • Provide multi-jurisdiction screening across Sanctions, PEP and Adverse Media
  • Focused on screening pain points and can't address complex EDD investigations and pKYC use cases
  • Approach leads to large volume of false positives and high costs for alert disposition 

CLMs / Workflows

[Pega, Fenergo Appian, Workfusion]

  • Central piece of KYC and customer management processes 
  • Flexible low code platforms allow clients to design workflows specific to their requirements
  • Implementation challenges, not efficient against single customer view, network risk and change detection
  • Implementations are typically long and costly without a standard product and scope creep
  • Lack ER, network generation and advanced analytics to address KYC and pKYC pain points 

ID&V

[Verify, Trulioo]

  • Smart technologies to digitize the identity verification process, often dealing with official documents scanning and integrated data 
  • Strong data for individuals
  • Integrate into online banking solutions to verify identities, reducing client friction
  • Limited set of data available for that specific purpose, technology not designed for other KYC purpose 
  • Address only the ID&V step in KYC process.
  • Typically have data limitations by country 

Consultancies
Big 4 

  • Bring guidance in advisory, implementation and design strategy - outsourced solution
  • Bring together multiple market leading solutions to address client needs 
  • Offer managed service options for clients to manage an outcome for CDD, EDD and remediation
  • Costly and does not solve the problem of inefficient, manual processes 
  • Managed service business model not aligned for cost and effort takeout

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