Waiting for an agreed payment while the account is taking weeks or months to be set up … due to the know-your-customer check-up. This is just one of the hassles related to increasing transparency efforts involving banks and their clients, including corporates, of course.
On one level, corporates need to understand that efforts are motivated by the nature and gigantic volume of underlying crime that needs to be stopped. And solving it is complex. Sometimes the problem is where the money comes from (trafficking), other times where it is going (terrorism) or where it doesn’t go (tax evation). But on the other hand, a lot of coordination, standardisation and technical efficiency could be improved throughout the KYC processes.
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Anders Meinert Jørgensen proposes that corporations should see their KYC data as their own, rather then as property of their banks. So if a second bank asks for the same information, it should just need to be shared, not reproduced.
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