Know Your Customer, a leading RegTech provider specializing in Business KYC verification, is delighted to announce the addition of its solution to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s (HKMA) Commercial Data Interchange (CDI). This collaboration is the latest milestone in the HKMA’s strategy to foster more efficient financial intermediation in the banking system and promote financial inclusion in the region.
The CDI represents a cutting-edge financial data infrastructure that eliminates the need for multiple one-to-one connections between banks and data providers. Through CDI, each bank and data provider establishes a single connection, streamlining data sharing at unprecedented levels.
Know Your Customer’s pivotal role within CDI is to provide seamless and automated access to the Hong Kong Companies Registry (HKCR) and Inland Revenue Department (IRD), as well as to a global network of official registries across 130+ countries worldwide. Know Your Customer’s proprietary technology empowers compliance teams at banks and regulated institutions with real-time access to official company documents, including certificates of incorporation and annual returns. Furthermore, the solution intelligently reads and extracts all shareholder and company details from company documents as structured data, thereby accelerating entity structure mapping and ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) identification for anti-money laundering purposes.
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By adopting Know Your Customer through CDI, financial institutions in Hong Kong can significantly enhance the efficiency and accuracy of their Know Your Business (KYB) and UBO checks. This transformative integration paves the way for digital transformation, facilitating a superior customer experience for both local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and large multinational corporations (MNCs).
Claus Christensen, CEO and co-founder of Know Your Customer, expressed his enthusiasm for the strategic potential of RegTech adoption in the financial services sector, particularly within HKMA’s forward-thinking approach. He stated:
“The CDI is just one of the many tangible and proactive initiatives taken by the regulator to drive RegTech adoption across the industry. Myself (I) and the entire team at Know Your Customer are eager to contribute to helping banks strengthen their internal compliance processes and embrace digital transformation in the critical areas of business verification and onboarding.”
The integration of Know Your Customer with HKMA’s Commercial Data Interchange signals the importance of real-time registry access and primary source data to ensure ongoing compliance in the eyes of the regulator. As Know Your Customer continues to lead the way in high-quality compliance solutions, this partnership stands as a testament to the banking sector’s commitment to concrete innovation and measurable progress.
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Know Your Customer is an award-winning RegTech company specializing in next-generation business verification solutions for financial institutions and regulated organizations worldwide.
For teams that are struggling with inefficient client due diligence and onboarding processes, Know Your Customer provides a modular compliance solution that combines the most intuitive digital workspace on the market with unmatched real-time registry data, seamless integrations, and smart automation to transform the essence of the compliance function at its core. The product’s modular design enables efficient customization, as clients can select and implement only the functionalities they really need, all available via Rest API.
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