iComplyKYC Q1 2021 Product Updates

iComplyKYC Q1 2021 Product Updates

iComplyKYC Q1 2021 Product Updates

Introducing our latest notes from iComply’s most comprehensive release yet, including the launch of iComplyKYC Developer Licenses

 

2021 has been a fruitful year thus far, with the addition of more workflow automation, enhanced security features, and several UI enhancements. Most notably, the iComplyKYC platform now includes major updates to Legal Entity onboarding and management, as well as key fixes for document jurisdiction selection and expiry dates.

 

Major Product Highlights: 

  • UPDATE: Data Match Logic Improvement
    Improvements have been made to how data points such as Name and Date of birth are extracted from client ID and compared against the personal details they have submitted. Live face matching has been enhanced to allow greater flexibility and confidence in liveness tests and biometric authentication. Randomized testing procedures, deep fake detection, and hardware security detection are run and results documented for you instantly.
  • UPDATE: Jurisdiction Section Now Populated for Passports
    Your end-users can now select their country of jurisdiction when they are asked to submit an image of their passport. This additional data point will appear on their natural person profile, viewable in your admin dashboard.
  • UPDATE: UX/UI Changes to Legal Entity Address Section
    Large organizations often operate from multiple locations, so we’ve made it easier to manage multiple legal entity addresses. The address component on Legal Entity profiles has been newly enhanced, with sortable location details for easier search and a special HQ icon to designate the entity’s headquarters. Collect addresses through client submissions, or manually add your own through the Legal Entity profile.
  • UPDATE: Legal Entity Management
    Now you can securely onboard businesses, verify their identity, addresses, and affiliated entities to better analyze for risk, control, and ultimate beneficial ownership. Legal Entity portals support workflows for onboarding, user authorization & authentication, and supporting document collection and encryption.
  • UPDATE: Request Client Update
    Invite your clients or users to your secure KYC portals where they can submit, authenticate, and encrypt their KYC data and supporting documents before it leaves their device. Say goodbye to unsecured email transfers of sensitive identity documents and personal information! Get notified with alerts of new submissions to your client’s KYC Profile and stay on top of your compliance tasks with this exciting new platform feature.
  • UPDATE: KYC Review Date
    Set calendars to automate KYC reviews and trigger KYC refreshes. Stay on top of all of your accounts so your business continues to grow.
  • FIX: Document Expiry Logic Updated
    We’ve fixed a bug that previously only allowed platform users to set the expiry date for an identification document now or in the past. We’ve also improved the clarity of the Issue that appears when a document has a date that cannot be read.
  • NEW FEATURE: Clarification Message When Entering Dates
    We live in a world with multiple date formatting options, and it can be confusing to know which format is preferred when entering a date. We’ve added text in our portal that clarifies to your end-users the Date they have entered, based on your preferred date format. This gives them the opportunity to correct it in real-time and minimize incorrect submissions.

 

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INTRODUCING: iComplyKYC Developer Licenses

Implementing a KYC, AML, or digital identity management solution need not be exhausting or expensive, yet many of our clients have shared horror stories of the high costs and lengthy processes required to set up, maintain, and use various competitors’ products.

To help companies find the right product fit before making a full commitment, we recently launched our iComply Essentials and iComply Pro Developer Licenses. For a limited trial basis, your team can test platform features, optimize workflows and automation thresholds, and customize integrations. 

Developer licenses allow you to:

  • Create, test, and manage KYC portals for Natural Person and Legal Entities
  • Request KYC data submissions or updates from clients via your secure portal
  • Integrate the iComply platform with our powerful REST API
  • Configure thresholds for auto-acceptance, confidence, and risk levels
  • Customize supporting documents, workflows, styles, and more
  • Configure AML search profiles and coverage
  • Access a limited number of KYC Services for testing

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Learn more about our latest features, pricing, and use cases in the iComplyKYC Product Guide. For a walkthrough of our platform functionality and key features, you can book a demo or contact our sales team for more information.

 

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iComply Launches Digital Compliance Administration Platform for $181 Billion KYC and AML Market

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iComply Launches Digital Compliance Administration Platform for the $181 Billion KYC and AML market

The updated iComplyKYC platform leverages edge computing and AI to support onboarding and identify verification for legal entities and natural persons

Vancouver, B.C. – December 15, 2020 – iComply Investor Services (“iComply”), a global compliance software provider, is announcing that it is launching an updated version of its iComplyKYC platform for digital compliance administration that now supports the onboarding and authentication of legal entities and natural persons as a part of its all-in-one compliance solution.

Unlike existing electronic identification (e-ID) solutions that require tools from multiple vendors and manual processing for B2C and B2B customer due diligence, iComplyKYC offers a standalone system to manage the full lifecycle of KYC and AML administration for each client.

Globally, AML spend by financial services providers grew to over $181B USD a year in 2019, according to a 2020 report from Compliance Week.

“The latest directives from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) have broadened AML requirements to include law firms, accounting, eCommerce, luxury sales and M&A transactions,” said Matthew Unger, CEO of iComply. “Further, new requirements for work-from-home have complicated the day-to-day compliance operations of most of the market, and ‘digital first’ is no longer a nice-to-have, but a necessity.”

Remote workforces and lockdowns have forced businesses to implement digital solutions for client onboarding, identification, and AML risk management.  iComplyKYC can service law firms, accounting firms, eCommerce platforms, mortgage brokers, and other industries regulated by the AML-5 directive. iComply estimates the global AML spend will exceed $300B USD by 2022.

The platform leverages edge computing for GDPR, PIPA, PPIA, and CCPA risk management. This means that the updated iComplyKYC platform enables companies to gather, authenticate, and encrypt user data via dynamic KYC Portals before that data leaves the user’s device. 

KYC services on the platform also include AI-enabled identity verification, biometric authentication, DUNS, and GLEI validation, supporting document workflows, and AML screening across 150 million daily sources. Compliance teams can access all results in a single dashboard to make better decisions, quickly manage issues, and generate reports.

“Integrating edge computing and artificial intelligence into the KYC portal reduces the total cost of compliance and improves user privacy, cybersecurity, and straight-through processing capabilities,” added Unger. “Businesses can no longer afford to mess with half a dozen onboarding tools and APIS, the market needs a banking grade digital identity and risk management solution that can be set up in hours.”

About iComply Investor Services Inc.
iComply Investor Services Inc. (“iComply”) is a Regtech company that provides fully-digital KYC and AML compliance solutions for non-face-to-face financial and legal interactions. iComply enables financial services providers to reduce costs, risk, and complexity and improve staff capacity, effectiveness, and customer experience. By partnering with multinational technology vendors such as Microsoft, DocuSign, Thomson Reuters, and Refinitiv, iComply is bringing compliance teams into the digital age. Learn more: www.icomplyis.com

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iComply Offers OFAC Screening for Sanctioned Bitcoin and Crypto Addresses

On November 28, 2018, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added its first bitcoin addresses to its public list of sanctioned individuals and entities. iComply is capable of screening these addresses to ensure compliance for decentralized finance and assets

Vancouver, B.C. – November 29, 2018 – iComply Investor Services (“iComply”), a leading RegTech platform for global digital finance and cryptocurrencies offers comprehensive blockchain forensic screening to address risks related to blockchain addresses, including sanctions screening, fraud, theft, and cyber-security.

On November 28, 2018, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added multiple Iranians and their bitcoin addresses to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN List) for laundering the bitcoin proceeds from the infamous SamSam ransomware scheme. This is the first instance of OFAC adding a cryptocurrency address to their public list of sanctioned individuals and entities.

“Agencies such as OFAC protect the integrity of financial markets, warning companies about individuals or companies that may pose a risk to their business. We developed our RegTech software, iComply, to make it possible to screen for these kinds of threats in both centralized and decentralized finance to address the unique risks when financial assets are traded using public blockchains. Currently, our solution supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin, Dash and Bitcoin Cash,” said Qayyum Rajan, Chief Data Officer, of iComply Investor Services Inc.

iComply’s solution addresses risks related to blockchain addresses and the trading of financial assets using public blockchains, this is an integral process that is complementary to traditional AML/KYC for fiat. Institutions can query addresses to achieve financial grade compliance around the individuals and entities that it transacts with.

“As blockchain is increasingly used for mainstream finance, it is integral to enforce regulatory compliance not just for the individual and entity but also for the transactions themselves,’ added Rajan. “While there has been a lot of talk about the Howey test to determine whether a token is subject to securities laws, institutions such as OFAC are now also enforcing criminal liabilities once these assets are trading.”

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Looking for financial grade KYC and AML in an enterprise ready API?

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Book a demo with one of our specialists to learn more.

About iComply Investor Services Inc.
iComply Investor Services Inc. (iComply) is an award-winning software company focused on reducing regulatory friction in the capital markets. With powerful data, verification, tokenization solutions, iComply helps companies overcome the cost and complexity of multi-jurisdictional compliance to effectively access new markets. Learn more: iComplyIS.com

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iComplyID is a zero-knowledge proof, legal-entity identifier.

Vancouver, B.C. – iComply (iComply Investor Services Inc.) is announcing the launch of iComplyID, which acts as a portable KYC (“know your customer”) solution for digital identity management in financial services and government applications. iComplyID significantly enhances cybersecurity and privacy for individuals while reducing the costs of compliance with anti-money laundering (AML), anti-terrorist financing (ATF) regulations, and national identity programs.

iComply is a RegTech software company focused on creating enterprise solutions that reduce the burden of financial, regulatory, and compliance requirements by synchronizing country by country legislation. Last month, the company released the world’s first automated compliance protocol, “Prefacto,” for securities regulation to enable token issuers, security token platforms, licensed stock exchanges and investors to launch and trade blockchain coins or smart contract tokens in compliance with global securities, identity, and privacy regulations.

“Our focus is to demonstrate how, when used appropriately, tools like blockchain, machine learning, and biometrics can serve to enhance integrity, transparency and security in capital markets. We are empowering organizations and individuals by enabling them to utilize the internet of value safely,” said Matthew Unger, CEO and Founder of iComply.

Recently, the banking industry has seen the trend of ‘platformization,’ where financial institutions move away from proprietary legacy solutions and have started to embrace shared resources.

ATMs for example, are owned by individual banks, but rely on administrative entities like VISA to manage inter-bank processes. Conversely, blockchain enables the decentralization of data for frictionless cooperation between entities in a network without intermediaries.

Recently, the Bank of Canada and the Monetary Authority of Singapore announced a program to leverage blockchain for interbank settlement and reconciliation. This reduces the time and cost of these processes, which is one of the features driving the increasing popularity of platforms and decentralized infrastructure.

Trust in intermediary organizations has faltered in recent years, with the Equifax security breach leaving the personal data of 143 million customers vulnerable.

“2017 was the year of the ICO with over 1,200 issued from Canada and the USA alone, and nearly 260 out of Singapore. Issuers in 2018 are taking a new approach, abandoning the fast and loose SAFT offerings to set up compliant securities offerings that simply happen to use blockchain to manage their holders of record. and even working with regulators preemptively. To scale globally, financial institutions need a secure, scalable, and compliant solution to manage investor identity verification, know your client, anti-money laundering, and real time source of funds monitoring. iComplyID is the only turnkey ID/KYC solution in the world that meets these requirements while protecting the privacy and consent of the user.” added Unger.

Looking for financial grade KYC and AML in an enterprise ready API?

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Book a demo with one of our specialists to learn more.

About iComply Investor Services Inc.
iComply Investor Services Inc. (iComply) is an award-winning software company focused on reducing regulatory friction in the capital markets. With powerful data, verification, tokenization solutions, iComply helps companies overcome the cost and complexity of multi-jurisdictional compliance to effectively access new markets. Learn more: iComplyIS.com

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