Podcast: Project Endeavour - Effective digital customer onboarding and eKYC for banking

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Project Endeavour is a ground-breaking pilot project to develop an electronic digital identity and risk assessment on-boarding solution for the financial services sector.

Established by two leading UK based technology companies – Synectics Solutions and Yoti, who specialise in delivering digital identity and financial crime risk management solutions, Project Endeavour will enable financial services organisations to significantly reduce the time it takes to digitally verify a customers’ identity and perform real-time due-diligence checks as part of a comprehensive eKYC risk assessment.

This podcast is hosted by Vesna McCreery – an expert in financial crime and risk with over 20 years’ experience of working with global banks and financial service providers. Vesna talks to Chris Lewis, Solutions Consultant at Synectics Solutions and Gareth Narinesingh, Commercial Director at Yoti about Project Endeavour and their aims and ambitions for the pilot.

SPEAKERS

Following a career of over twenty years in financial crime, Vesna founded Ansev Solutions. Ansev serves financial institutions of all sizes in all aspects of financial crime with a strong leaning towards the use of automation and regulatory technology. Ansev draws on Vesna’s extensive experience of practical implementation of laws and regulation, and on the expertise of the well selected partners especially in the reg-tech space.

Gareth is Yoti’s Commercial Director for financial services. He delivers Yoti’s digital identity solutions within electronic KYC to combine a strong customer acquisition tool, great user experience and enhanced regulatory compliance. Before Yoti, Gareth spent 11 years working in various banking roles before serving as an FCA lead supervisor and then regulatory consulting at Deloitte.

Chris Lewis is a Solutions Consultant at Synectics Solutions. He is responsible for helping Synectics clients’ to identify, design and deliver innovative technology solutions to successfully address their business challenges. He works primarily in Financial Services, and stresses the importance of close collaboration between Business, Regulators, Consumers and Government in the fight against financial crime, fraud, error and misrepresentation.

During this podcast you will learn about:

• Synectics Solutions and Yoti, and how they have collectively crafted over 30 years’ experience in delivering market-leading digital identity and financial crime risk management solutions
• How the application of technology to perform digital ID&V and CDD is being driven by changing regulations – and how this digital transformation can ease the on-boarding journey for both providers and customers
• How Project Endeavour will enable financial services providers to carry out real-time, digital ID&V, fraud and AML checks at the application inception stage
• How Project Endeavour will allow financial services providers to significantly reduce risk by utilising aggregated, market-leading data sources as part of their on-boarding process, to give a much broader picture of their customers.

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If you are a financial services provider and would like more information about Project Endeavour, or would like to take part in the pilot please email: endeavour@yoti.com or endeavour@synectics-solutions.com

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