The Hidden Cost of Your KYC Process
About this episode
Jim Marous discusses the hidden costs associated with the KYC process in banking and the implications of application abandonment.
Your institution is spending real money to bring people to the front door, and most of them never get through it. Cornerstone Advisors found 3.36 digital checking applications abandoned for every one completed, or nearly 9,000 potential accounts at the average institution. Research from Debbie puts average application completion around 15%, with the ID upload as the single biggest drop-off point, and some institutions decline 70% of the applications they receive. Meanwhile the average cost to acquire a member runs around $489. Most of that gets treated as a KYC and compliance requirement, and most of the time it is not. The customer identification program rule is risk-based. It permits non-documentary verification, allows identity to be verified within a reasonable time after an account is opened, and expects your procedures to define what someone can do while verification is still underway. Most systems only have approved and declined. Jim Marous looks at what the identity decision is costing banks and credit unions at the new account desk and in digital account opening, why the same gate gets run again on customers who have been with you for years, and what a risk-based…
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