ICOs have presented a new and powerful way for companies and projects to raise funds to fuel their growth. However, the space is also highly vulnerable to fraud and exploitation by financial criminals. Implementing effective and efficient KYC on potential ICO investors can build trust, expand investor pools and ensure compliance with fast-evolving regulations.

The emerging PropTech sector is revolutionizing real estate investment by leveraging blockchain technology to tokenize real estate assets. Although the new approach is opening up the sector to new investors, it may be especially vulnerable to exploitation for money laundering and other illicit financial activity – if robust KYC and AML measures are not properly implemented.

Passive Liveness is a new verification technology that can accurately identify if a person undergoing a selfie or video screening is the same individual presented on the ID document they upload. KYC-Chain is excited to announce the introduction of Passive Liveness in our end-to-end onboarding tool, further strengthening the anti-fraud and compliance toolkit.

Merchant Acquirers (MAs) and Payment Service Providers (PSPs) act as the host and conduit of merchants’ financial transactions. As more and more micro-merchants enter the digital marketplace, PSPs and MAs can use fast, efficient, and effective KYC tools like KYC-Chain to ensure their customers – and the services they provide them with – are compliant with global regulations.

The KYC technology ecosystem is a diverse and growing space. KYC providers are developing new and unique ways to serve the KYC and compliance needs of a wide range of different businesses. When selecting your provider, it’s important to consider a wide range of different factors. We’ve addressed some of the key ones in our new Buyers Guide.

We’ve taken on some exciting new clients, providing our seamless KYC onboarding technology to customers from industries as diverse as precious metal companies, trading desks, VCs, and HNWIs. KYC-Chain’s expanding client portfolio demonstrates the versatility of our onboarding tool for a wide range of sectors – and whether your customers are businesses or individuals.

Corporate KYC can often be more complex, time, and resource-intensive than KYC for individuals. Using KYC-Chain’s workflow solution, companies can understand who the corporate clients they do business with actually are – and what their risk profile is.

KYC-Chain’s end-to-end workflow solution boasts powerful individual screening capabilities. From ID verification (IDV) tools that include Biometric Face Scans and government database checks, to AML checks and risk scoring – our tool allows companies to obtain detailed and accurate understandings of who their potential customers are.

The global regulatory environment continues to expand and become more complex. At the same time, each regulated company has unique needs and requirements when it comes to compliance. KYC-Chain’s end-to-end workflow solution provides a powerful and customizable feature set for meeting every regulatory challenge.