What Is KYC?
Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there has been a renewed focus on everything around KYC, Compliance, Risk , Sanctions, tax havens and much more. What is KYC?
KYC means Know-Your-Customer and sometimes Know-Your-Client.
The interesting thing though is that my first book on Know-Your Customer is actually a marketing book. And that makes sense, doesn’t it? because if you want to be able to be succesful as a corporate or any other type of entrepreneur, startup, scaleup or SME, you have to get to know your customer, including your prospects.
The KYC-proces involves the whole client life-cycle from targeting prospects, to selecting and onboarding customers upto to the moment a customer leaves voluntarily or obligatory for compliance reasons.
Within the context of Compliance & Risk, KYC processes mean mandatory processes of identifying and verifying the prospects identity before accepting and onboarding that prospect. KYC-processes vary according to the perceived risk of the person or the legal entity concerned being on so-called ‘sanctions-lists’or not.
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In other words, banks for instance like the one I used to work for both in sales & marketing as in Compliance and in KYC must make sure that prospects and clients are genuinely who they claim to be. Banks and other companies may refuse to open up a business relationship or halt an existing business relationship if the prospect or existing client fails to meet relevant KYC-requirements.
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