KYC / CDD

Keep KYC aligned with changing risk

Keep customer risk in focus from onboarding to perpetual KYC (pKYC). Reduce manual reviews, streamline onboarding and strengthen regulatory confidence with a continuously updated understanding of every customer

Customer risk changes while scheduled reviews and siloed data lag behind

Customer profiles, owners and activity can change between planned reviews. Siloed data and manual checks make new risks harder to assess. Teams repeat research while high-risk cases wait in queues and routine onboarding takes up valuable time.
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Outdated KYC profiles leave new customer risks poorly understood
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Siloed records hide owners and relationships
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Repeated research consumes skilled review capacity
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Manual handoffs hold up decisions and escalation
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Stronger customer insight with less manual effort

End-to-end

Agent-led onboarding orchestration

97%

Typical straight-through processing with real-time risk assessment

70%+

Reduction in manual reviews

Event-led

Reviews as customer risk changes

EDD at scale

Automate complex reviews with agents

100%

Decision traceability on every agent action

The complete KYC lifecycle

Customer Onboarding
Risk Assessment
Perpetual KYC
Agent-led Review
Governance

Build a reliable customer profile from the start. Bring internal records, identity checks and external intelligence together, supporting proportionate onboarding decisions with fewer manual handoffs and less repeated data collection.

  • Connect preferred providers for identity verification, questionnaires and document collection
  • Assess customers and connected parties using configurable onboarding risk criteria
  • Integrate sanctions, PEP and adverse media screening into onboarding workflows

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Understand the factors behind customer risk. Consolidate profile, ownership, screening and behavioral signals into a dynamic assessment. Configurable scores and thresholds help teams distinguish material changes from routine activity and apply the right level of due diligence.

  • Combine customer details, geographic exposure and connected-party risk in a single assessment
  • Enrich corporate structures through third-party data to identify beneficial owners and assess their risk
  • Connect transaction monitoring findings to expected customer behavior

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Keep customer understanding current as customer risk changes. Perpetual KYC (pKYC) uses incoming data and configured events to reassess risk and trigger targeted reviews. Focus effort on changes that matter while maintaining scheduled reviews required by institutional policy and applicable obligations.

  • Monitor changes in customer information, ownership, screening status and activity across connected data sources
  • Configure event thresholds to trigger agent-led proportionate due diligence and escalation
  • Carry forward relevant evidence so reviewers can assess what changed without rebuilding the entire customer profile each time

Turn risk signals into prepared cases. A Manager Agent coordinates specialized Worker Agents to research entities, assemble evidence and support risk assessment. Agents triage and route work, helping reviewers make consistent CDD and enhanced due diligence (EDD) decisions with the key facts already available.

  • Prioritize review queues by customer risk and investigation complexity
  • Bring research, ownership findings and related alerts into a shared Evidence Board for assessment
  • Prepare case summaries and disclosure narratives for human review, approval and subsequent reporting where required

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Explain how each customer decision was reached. Connect source evidence, risk scores, agent actions and reviewer judgments through an auditable workflow. Configure approval requirements and escalation boundaries so automation supports policy and oversight across the customer lifecycle.

  • Retain the evidence, score changes and rationale behind onboarding, ongoing review and enhanced due diligence decisions
  • Apply access controls and human approval requirements to agent workflows and higher-risk customer decisions
  • Govern changes to scoring, review triggers and workflows before putting them into operation

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Connected capabilities for continuous customer understanding

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Entity resolution and risk ontology

Resolve duplicate customer records and connect ownership, activity and risk signals through a unified FinCrime ontology, creating shared context for decisions.

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End-to-end agent-led workflows

Orchestrate triage, research, investigation and reporting through Manager and Worker Agents, with evidence prepared for review and human oversight built in.

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Dynamic customer risk assessment

Combine configurable risk factors with behavioral insight. Reassess exposure as customer information changes, helping teams apply proportionate due diligence.

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Event-driven perpetual KYC

Trigger targeted reviews when customer circumstances change. Reuse existing evidence to reduce repetitive checks and concentrate effort where new information affects risk.

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Beneficial ownership and network insight

Enrich corporate structures and connected parties to understand ownership and control. Configure UBO thresholds and assess exposure beyond the immediate customer.

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Governance throughout every review

Trace risk assessments, agent actions and human decisions to supporting evidence. Apply institutional policies consistently across onboarding, CDD and enhanced reviews.

Results you can see

Customer evidence across integrated CDD, investigation and screening deployments.

European bank improves investigations and saves €3.5M annually

A European bank consolidated risk information in SRI Investigation, reducing review effort and improving consistency. Reported savings include lower vendor costs.

€3.5m
Annual cost savings
20%
Less investigation effort
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A European bank consolidated risk information in SRI Investigation, reducing review effort and improving consistency. Reported savings include lower vendor costs.

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€3.5m
Annual cost savings
20%
Less investigation effort
U.S. insurer connects KYC with wider financial crime controls

An integrated deployment combines real-time KYC/CDD, screening, transaction monitoring, fraud detection and case management.

500k+
Daily transactions across operations
KYC / CDD
Included in deployment
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Low-angle view of two modern glass skyscrapers reflecting the clear blue sky with sunlight in the upper right corner.

An integrated deployment combines real-time KYC/CDD, screening, transaction monitoring, fraud detection and case management.

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500k+
Daily transactions across operations
KYC / CDD
Included in deployment
Cecabank reduces screening investigation time and cost

Connected screening information helps Cecabank assess alerts efficiently across retail and wholesale banking.

Retail
and wholesale banking
Screening
Scope of reported results
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Connected screening information helps Cecabank assess alerts efficiently across retail and wholesale banking.

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Retail
and wholesale banking
Screening
Scope of reported results

Move toward pKYC at your pace

Start where manual effort is greatest and extend as your needs evolve.

Build on your existing KYC systems

Add entity resolution, dynamic risk assessment or agent-led review to existing workflows.

● Reduce manual effort and improve process consistency   
● Move toward even-driven KYC with agent-led reviews

Symphony Risk Intelligence

SRI is an agent-native risk and compliance platform purpose built to transform FinCrime

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Always-on Compliance™

Combining unified risk intelligence with end-to-end agentic orchestration, SRI enables compliance programs to stay current by design as regulations, threats, and business activity change.

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Modular for ultimate flexibility

SRI is built so customers can start where they need to, expand at their own pace, and scale across regions, lines of business, and use cases without friction.

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Strategic agility at scale

Modernize your infrastructure with a cloud-native, evergreen platform that prepares your business for the era of agentic AI and continuous AI innovation.

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Built for FinCrime. Proven at scale.

Our solutions are built on 25 years of proven expertise on a global scale. That’s why we’re trusted by 33% of the world’s largest financial institutions.

KYC and CDD FAQs

Explore how connected risk insight and agent-led workflows keep customer understanding current, reduce review effort and support more informed decisions.

How do KYC and CDD work together?

Know Your Customer (KYC) covers understanding who customers are and the risks they present. Customer due diligence (CDD) supports that understanding through identity and ownership checks, risk assessment and ongoing monitoring throughout the relationship, starting at onboarding.

Does perpetual KYC replace every scheduled review?

Perpetual KYC (pKYC) keeps customer risk assessments current through incoming information and event-driven reviews. Changes in ownership, screening results or behavior can trigger action between scheduled checks. Required periodic reviews remain part of the program, reflecting applicable obligations and institutional policy.

How does entity resolution improve KYC?

Entity resolution links records belonging to the same person or organization across systems. Combined with ownership and relationship data, it reduces duplicate research and gives reviewers a more complete foundation for assessing customer risk.

What do agents do in CDD reviews?

A Manager Agent coordinates Worker Agents to research entities, assemble evidence, summarize findings and support triage, investigation and reporting. Reviewers can inspect the evidence, challenge recommendations and approve decisions within the institution’s configured controls.

Can we build on existing KYC systems?

Yes. Connect existing customer systems, internal data and third-party sources, including preferred identity verification and document providers. Introduce entity resolution, risk assessment and agent-led workflows in stages. Integration scope depends on available interfaces, data quality and deployment requirements, with governance carried through the resulting workflow.

Keep KYC current and focus effort where risk demands it

Talk with SymphonyAI about pKYC and agent-led reviews that reduce manual effort.