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Intuition for Onboarding

Achieve fraud prevention and compliances

Intuition for Onboarding

Intuition for Onboarding is purpose‑built to protect the customer lifecycle from the very first interaction. The solution enables organisations to prevent fraud and meet regulatory obligations by embedding risk assessment, identity verification, and compliance controls directly into the onboarding process.

By combining real‑time screening, dynamic due diligence, and a unified risk view, Intuition helps clients onboard customers faster while confidently managing fraud, AML, and CTF risk—delivering a seamless experience without compromising security or compliance.

Onboarding

Application Fraud Prevention

Detect and prevent credit application fraud at the onboarding stage, even before you have signed the customer up.

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AML Compliance for Customer Due Diligence and EDD

Conduct AML checking on your potential customers by determining a Risk Score and Risk Level in order to tag high risk customers for close monitoring.

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KYC Watchlist Filtering

PEPs and Sanctions checking, and checking against any other type of list.

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USE Cases

Customer onboarding in a Financial Crime Prevention system

Customer onboarding is the first line of defence, combining speed, accuracy, and regulatory control. From initial engagement, customer data is captured and validated through integrated identity verification, biometric checks, and document authentication. Automated screening is applied in real time across sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media, while risk indicators such as geography, product usage, and customer behaviour are assessed to generate an initial risk profile.

Based on this risk assessment, due diligence requirements are dynamically applied—ranging from streamlined onboarding for low‑risk customers to enhanced due diligence for higher‑risk profiles. Throughout the process, all decisions, evidence, and risk signals are captured within a single audit trail, enabling fast approvals, consistent compliance, and a seamless customer experience without compromising financial crime controls.

Accelerate Growth: Strategic Onboarding

Turn compliance from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage. Intuition for Onboarding automates complex KYC and KYB processes, ensuring every customer is verified, screened, and ready to transact in seconds.

High-Volume Digital Retail Onboarding (KYC)

High-Volume Digital Retail Onboarding (KYC)

Scenario: Scaling retail bank or fintech customer acquisition across digital channels.

Solution: End-to-end digital onboarding through configurable workflows and real-time decisioning. A single workflow seamlessly integrates identity verification (OCR & biometrics), automated compliance screening (PEP, sanctions, & adverse media), and real-time fraud risk scoring.

Outcome: Consistent, channel-wide automated approvals that maximize customer acquisition while drastically cutting manual reviews and elevating compliance security.

Complex Corporate & UBO Onboarding (KYB)

Complex Corporate & UBO Onboarding (KYB)

Scenario: Onboarding SMEs and multinational entities with intricate ownership structures.

Solution: Automated mapping of Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBO) and directors, screening every stakeholder against global risk lists simultaneously.

Outcome: Full visibility into "hidden" ownership and a streamlined path to commercial account activation.

Merchant & PSP Underwriting

Merchant & PSP Underwriting

Scenario: A payment provider onboarding new merchants for live processing.

Solution: Risk-rating merchants based on industry MCC, geography, and historical fraud signals before activation.

Outcome: Protection against high-risk business entering your ecosystem while accelerating "Go-Live" for legitimate sellers.

Perpetual KYC (pKYC) & Periodic Refresh

Perpetual KYC (pKYC) & Periodic Refresh

Scenario: Maintaining "evergreen" compliance as customer risk profiles shift over time.

Solution: Automated re-screening of existing records against updated sanctions lists and jurisdictional changes.

Outcome: Continuous compliance that eliminates the need for intrusive, manual re-onboarding cycles.

High-Risk Jurisdictions & Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)

High-Risk Jurisdictions & Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)

Scenario: Managing applicants from high-risk regions or those requiring deeper scrutiny.

Solution: Dynamic workflows that automatically trigger "Step-Up" verification, adverse media deep-dives, and mandatory analyst sign-off.

Outcome: Rigorous regulatory governance without slowing down your core business operations.

 Crypto-Native & VASP Onboarding

Crypto-Native & VASP Onboarding

Scenario: Verifying customers interacting with virtual assets or crypto exchanges.

Solution: Combining traditional identity checks with wallet-linking and VASP-specific risk assessments.

Outcome: Compliance with evolving digital asset regulations and a unified risk view across fiat and crypto.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Intuition for Onboarding in a financial crime context?

Intuition for Onboarding is a digital onboarding solution that helps financial institutions prevent application fraud and meet KYC/AML requirements by assessing customer risk at the point of account opening.
The platform uses configurable fraud rules, models, data validation, and third-party data checks to identify inconsistencies, suspicious patterns, and high-risk applications in real time.
Intuition integrates with leading data providers to screen customers against sanctions lists, PEP lists, and adverse media during onboarding.
Intuition assigns a risk score based on customer data, behaviour, geography, and screening results to support risk-based decisioning.
Yes, Intuition enables automated approve, reject, or refer decisions based on configurable fraud and compliance rules.
Enhanced customer due diligence (EDD) is an advanced form of customer due diligence applied to high-risk clients or transactions. With Ingenuous, high-risk customers can be automatically flagged for enhanced due diligence, including additional checks and manual review workflows.
Yes, Intuition integrates via APIs with identity verification providers, credit bureaus, fraud databases, and watchlist screening services.
The platform enforces KYC, screening, and risk assessment processes aligned with regulatory requirements, with full audit trails for compliance reviews.
All onboarding decisions, checks, and actions are fully logged, providing a complete audit trail for internal governance and regulatory audits.
Yes, workflows can be configured to apply different checks and approval paths based on product type, customer segment, or risk level.
By automating checks, integrating data sources, and applying risk-based decisioning, Intuition balances strong financial crime controls with a smooth customer experience.
Yes, AI capabilities can support onboarding by analysing application data, identifying risk indicators, and assisting decision-making, while ensuring compliance controls and human oversight remain in place.
Intuition connects to identity verification and fraud data providers via standard APIs, enabling real-time data exchange during onboarding. This allows institutions to incorporate external checks such as document verification, biometrics, credit data, and fraud signals directly into decisioning workflows.
KYC onboarding refers to the process of verifying a customer’s identity and assessing their risk before establishing a business relationship. Intuition supports this by combining identity verification, watchlist screening, risk scoring, and configurable workflows to ensure compliant and efficient customer onboarding.

Competitive Advantages

We differentiate ourselves by delivering value for money whilst helping our clients to implement industry best practice in financial crimes prevention. We work hard with our clients to ensure they achieve return on investment through the implementation of our solutions in four main ways.

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One Platform

for both Onboarding and Monitoring enabling information sharing and more efficient alert review.

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Real-time

execution of strategies including self-learning models and dashboard monitoring.

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Latest

technology and architecture means increased performance and scalability with more cost effectiveness.

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Flexible

data model and strategy definitions including machine learning.

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