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User Onboarding

Our integrated client onboarding service allows you to digitally onboard your clients using our cost-effective infrastructure that identifies and verifies your customers in line with regulation.

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Bringing your clients onboard in a fully compliant way

KYC (Know Your Customer) is designed to protect you and your customers against fraud, money laundering, and terrorist financing. Money laundering regulations require financial institutions to understand who their customers and clients are by verifying their identity. Effective KYC is the backbone of any successful compliance and risk management process.

A smooth user onboarding process

Through our Parties endpoint, our Tenants will add the details of their customers. The following checks must be undertaken during the customer journey :
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  • Identity checks
  • Adverse Media
  • Legal and regulatory warnings
  • PEPs (Politically Exposed Persons)
  • Sanctions


To learn more about the specific information required, check out our guide.

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When working with WealthKernel, our Tenants can choose between using WealthKernel’s integration for KYC checks or evidencing that they have completed the checks with the help of an external KYC provider or via their existing KYC integration.

Using WealthKernel for KYC
Evidence-based KYC outsourcing

WealthKernel is integrated with a downstream KYC provider, reducing the need for our Tenants to have multiple integrations and leveraging our existing relationships, and ultimately increasing speed to market.

Our API keeps you updated on the onboarding users and their checks via our webhooks service and the WealthKernel Dashboard.  This can then be built into your workflows to speed up the user onboarding process.

To learn more about our customer onboarding process and information needed for KYC checks, check out these pages - Onboarding and Opening Requirements.

Tenants can also use our evidence-based KYC outsourcing, where they can complete identity checks and sanctions screening, as well as record the outcomes and supporting evidence on the API.

WealthKernel provides a system to record and store verification evidence without needing to duplicate or manage each individual check.

Which KYC model is right for you?
KYC with WealthKernel
Less third party integrations
Suits new businesses
Looking to replatform from a manual provider
Automated KYC
Evidence-based KYC outsourcing
Continue using your KYC provider or existing integrations
Maintain direct relationship with your customers
Suits established businesses
Tenant due diligence

We conduct our own due diligence and perform risk assessments on our Tenants with our robust compliance framework.

Tenants have a responsibility to ensure their customers have been identified in line with money laundering regulations.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What information is required for user onboarding?

Tenants are required to present basic information, including their names, national insurance numbers, addresses, etc. To learn more about the specific information required, check out our guide.

Is the process time-consuming?

Our user onboarding process is straightforward and not time-consuming. However, some of our processes are still manually handled, which might result in longer executions.

What are the additional requirements for evidence-based KYC ? 

We require an outsourcing agreement which is standard.

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