The Pandora Papers brought to light how politically exposed persons move wealth through offshore shells that a basic name check never sees. Enhanced due diligence and PEP screening exist to close exactly that gap. They look past the clean identity to the source of wealth and the real beneficial owner sitting behind a structure, which […]

A GCC national is a citizen of one of the six Gulf Cooperation Council member states: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, or Oman. The term matters in identity verification because a GCC national is not the same as a GCC resident, and the two are verified in different ways. That single […]

An artificial juridical person is a residual KYC category covering societies, temple trusts, and local bodies. See the documents and onboarding rules.

Designated non-financial businesses and professions (DNFBPs) are businesses outside the traditional financial sector, including casinos, real estate agents, precious-metals dealers, lawyers, accountants, and trust and company service providers, that global anti-money-laundering standards require to run KYC and AML controls whenever they handle defined high-risk transactions. The catch for most of these firms is that they […]

The NPCI AEPS guidelines are the operating and security rules for Aadhaar Enabled Payment System transactions, set by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and reinforced by the Reserve Bank of India. The change that matters most right now is RBI’s June 2025 direction requiring acquiring banks to run full due diligence on every […]

Every compliance head in Indian fintech has a story about a vKYC call that dropped at the worst possible moment. What they rarely agree on is why it dropped. And that disagreement is costing the industry billions. At scale, even a 5% preventable drop-off translates into crores in lost revenue. The era of volume-driven onboarding […]

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Video KYC is mandatory. It is also one of the most expensive and fragile steps in your onboarding flow. Most banks treat it as a compliance checkbox. They plug in a video SDK, wire it to their backend, and move on. Then they wonder why so many customers never make it past the call. Success […]

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