KYC and AML: who your customers really are
Know Your Customer (KYC) is the process of verifying that the person or business opening an account is who they claim to be. Anti-Money Laundering (AML) is the ongoing monitoring that detects suspicious patterns after onboarding — structuring, rapid pass-through, sanctioned counterparties, and behavioral anomalies.
A mature program combines document verification, biometric liveness checks, sanctions and PEP screening, transaction monitoring rules, case management, and SAR filing workflows. It also generates the paper trail that examiners will ask for years later.
PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and the certifications that unlock partners
If your platform touches card data, PCI-DSS is non-negotiable. The good news is that using a certified processor and tokenization dramatically reduces your own scope — often to SAQ A rather than a full ROC. SOC 2 Type II, meanwhile, is the report most banking and enterprise partners will ask for before they will sign a contract with you.
- KYC document, biometric, and sanctions screening in one flow
- Ongoing AML transaction monitoring with tunable rules
- PCI-DSS scope reduction through tokenization and network-level card data
- SOC 2 Type II controls mapped to product features
- Audit-ready logs with immutable, time-stamped evidence
Secure key management: the part no one sees until it breaks
API keys, signing keys, encryption keys, and webhook secrets are the crown jewels of any banking integration. Leaked keys have been the root cause of most publicly reported fintech breaches in the last decade. A serious platform uses hardware-backed key storage, short-lived credentials, rotation on a defined schedule, and strict separation between production and non-production environments.
Frequently asked questions
Do you handle KYC in-house?
We integrate with best-in-class KYC vendors and orchestrate the flow, so you get a single API and consistent case management regardless of provider.
Are you PCI-DSS compliant?
Yes, and the architecture is designed to keep customer platforms out of scope wherever possible through tokenization.
How are API keys managed?
Keys are issued per environment, rotatable, scoped, and stored in a hardware-backed vault. All key events are logged for audit.