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Today’s rapidly evolving regulatory environment means that firms are increasingly looking at faster and more cost-effective methods to comply and reduce the burden of Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements.

KYC Services is a core component of the overall S&P Global due diligence workflow process for brokers, custodians, corporates, fund admins, managers and service providers. Our market leading solution is built on Counterparty Manager, ensuring entity data, document collection, tax profile validation, regulatory protocols and self-declarations, legal credit agreements and operational setup information is complete, accurate and up-to-date.

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The major components that form the core of KYC Services include:

Data

Leverage industry designed policy guidelines to address compliance needs together with local requirements in multiple jurisdictions, capturing approximately 80 crucial data points, including nature of business, beneficial ownership and key controllers. KYC Services continues to expand its automated connectivity to official public data sources, providing customers with more timely access to data.

Additionally, through KYC Services Fund Dataset you can also access accurate and dynamic data on investment managers and over 230,000 underlying funds through an automated feed, including linked active funds.

Technology

Our technology platform supports bilateral exchange with clients through a secure centralized environment. We provide an interactive online portal to collect, manage, request and store client KYC information, and offer integration capabilities with leading providers of screening data for Politically Exposed Person’s (PEPs), adverse media and sanctions/watchlists.

Managed Services

Our team plays a pivotal role across a range of key onboarding and recertification work streams. We offer a tailored, approach to meet your individual needs including consulting, outsourcing, client outreach, KYC health checks, policy building and end to end project management. This provides a more robust and efficient approach to long-term KYC sustainability.

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KYC Services enables you to

Reduce outreach requirements

Improve client experience through maximization of public information.

Minimize operational risk

Leverage a secure platform to manage and exchange client KYC information.

Tap into high quality data

Access official public sources across multiple jurisdictions.

Standardize and automate

Implement processes across client types and regions.

Increased employee efficiency

Allow automation and data sourcing to reduce the operational burden on your staff and improve employee experience.

Decrease manual communication

Reduce manual time-consuming communication by utilizing technology and electronic process management.

Introducing KYC Services

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Key Stats

40,000

KYC Profiles

250+

Bank customers

250,000

Entities represented on Counterparty Manager, including 100,000+ with LEI's

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Identifying Your Customer Risk Exposure Through Screening

Regular client screening has become a key obligation for financial services firms amid changing Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements.

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KYC Accelerator: Expediting Your KYC Reviews

Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) regulatory requirements are on the rise, creating a significant challenge for financial institutions as requirements can often be complex and manual.

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Proactive KYC Services: Empowering Your Process

Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulatory requirements are on the rise, creating significant challenges for financial institutions as they can be complex and manual.

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Customer Testimonials

"PIMCO looks forward to working closely with S&P Global in using Counterparty Manager, Tax Utility, KYC Services and the entire regulatory and compliance ecosystem. The seamless interoperability between these platforms to support client onboarding, master agreement negotiation and tax validation as a unified group of steps is particularly beneficial."
- Tracey Jordal, executive vice president and senior counsel for Trading and Markets, PIMCO

"We actively support the use of KYC utilities and have been investing in the development of KYC Service as a founding design partner since its inception. Now that the service has been developed, we want to encourage market adoption. Deutsche Bank is inviting customers to subscribe to this service and contribute their KYC documentation and data to KYC Services."
- David Deane, managing director of client and data services, Deutsche Bank

"One of the biggest challenges to conducting KYC in Asia is the regional variation for cross border compliance, which adds a layer of complexity to managing our customer relationships. For us it's about establishing best practice and mutualizing efforts to remove some of the regional anomalies. KYC Services supports this and provides a more cost effective way to conduct our business."
- David Fleet, managing director of client onboarding and management, Standard Chartered

"At UBS, we actively encourage the adoption of KYC utilities to drive industry simplification; and improve the delivery of services to our clients. Current practices are complex and time consuming. Gathering client information in a single place benefits both clients and financial institutions."
- Daniel Haid, managing director of client onboarding, UBS

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Marjorie is responsible for overseeing the Managed Services business within Regulatory & Compliance, which services includes conducting regulatory outreach to providing full KYC support on behalf of our clients. Previous to this role, Marjorie ran the KYC Services business that was designed in partnership with leading global financial institutions to create an industry approach for streamlining Know Your Client requirements. From 2002-2015, Marjorie worked at Goldman Sachs holding multiple senior positions in both AML Compliance and Client Onboarding in New York and London; she has developed global CIP and EDD policies across various entity types, implemented a QA and training programs for Institutional On-boarding, and was central point of contact for internal and external regulatory audits.Marjorie studied economic history and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, United States.

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KYC Services

Today’s rapidly evolving regulatory environment means that firms are increasingly looking at faster and more cost-effective methods to comply and reduce the burden of Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements.

The major components that form the core of KYC Services include:

Data

Technology

Managed Services

KYC Services enables you to

Reduce outreach requirements

Minimize operational risk

Tap into high quality data

Standardize and automate

Increased employee efficiency

Decrease manual communication

Introducing KYC Services

Key Stats

40,000

KYC Profiles

250+

Bank customers

250,000

Entities represented on Counterparty Manager, including 100,000+ with LEI's

Discover more

Identifying Your Customer Risk Exposure Through Screening

KYC Accelerator: Expediting Your KYC Reviews

Proactive KYC Services: Empowering Your Process

Customer Testimonials

Resources

Our Partners

Experts

Marjorie Chee