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Know Your Customer rules

Regulatory requirements that banks and financial institutions verify customer identities and keep records, to curb fraud and money laundering.

Current stories

investOne report1 publisher

WorkFusion lets banks buy its financial-crime agents as a managed service from partners such as Deloitte

WorkFusion now offers its financial-crime AI agents through four delivery routes, including a managed service run by partner consultancies. The route a bank picks decides who employs the analysts and who is paid for the outcome.

Publishers:fintech.global

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+35
Incentives75
Confidence45
investConfirmed5 publishers

Revolut released passports and Bitcoin histories on an email that passed domain authentication

The request came from an unauthorized account on a real government domain, and Revolut acted on it. The company calls the number of affected customers limited, and it declined to say how many or name the agency.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 23%
Operator
Operator 55%
Investor
Investor 22%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives55
Confidence66
buildOne report1 publisher

Two directors and two UBOs turn one corporate signup into five verification records

A dev.to teardown models Know Your Business as asynchronous graph resolution over corporate registries, where the entity-level verdict depends on the KYC results of every natural person the traversal turns up.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence45
investOne report1 publisher

Korea's financial regulators chase an offshore won coin that cashes out in gift cards

The KoFIU and the Financial Supervisory Service are examining how KRWQ Gifts turns a won-pegged offshore token into mobile vouchers at about 90 Korean brands with no KYC, roughly three weeks after a newspaper reported it.

Publishers:en.sedaily.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption30
Hype gap+20
Incentives62
Confidence48
investOne report1 publisher

Krebs traces infrared license captures on a dark web market to a vendor scanning 21 million IDs a month

The infrared and ultraviolet captures a bank reads to prove a license is genuine were reportedly on sale beside the ordinary scans, which leaves the cheapest step in account opening deciding nothing on its own.

Reality

Evidence57
Adoption62
Hype gap+12
Incentives72
Confidence52