This increase in the company’s service adoption has been attributed to the digital onboarding and Video KYC processes by banks and other financial institutions like New India Cooperative Bank and RupeeRedee
August 11, 2020, National: Kwik.ID, a computer vision and AI-enabled Video KYC solution provider recently reported a 300% jump in the adoption of their services across verticals like banking, housing finance, lending, forex, fintech and wallets. The latest to join the company’s roster are New India Cooperative Bank and RupeeRedee. This surge is a result of the RBI allowing banks and other lending institutions to use Video based Customer Identification Process that has helped in easier digital onboarding of customers remotely.
Kwik.ID is a leading VCIP Digital KYC solutions provider, known for their superior technological infrastructure and an unparalleled completion rate of 85% compared to the industry standard of 40-50%. With the completion of over 50,000 KYC sessions already, Kwik.ID allows users to complete verification in 2 minutes with their swift feature of instant OCR of PAN, Aadhaar documents irrespective of low bandwidth network.
Speaking about the rapid adoption of Kwik.ID among several organizations and the growth spurt of Video KYC at large, Monish Salot, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, Think Analytics said, “Gone are the days when digitization was just a matter of convenience. It has now become the way we all operate in our daily lives, be it investing, online deliveries or conducting meetings. Online activities which involve money is directly proportional to risk due to the increasing cybercrimes and in such cases, verifying and ID risk assessment plays a crucial role to conduct paperless documentation process successfully.”
“We are enthralled that clients are finding our robust technology infrastructure favorable in completing their KYC onboarding end-to-end. Kwik.ID’s adoption across several verticals by some of the largest organizations are a true testament to our quality of services and technical expertise. This is also indicative of the upcoming inflection point in the Video KYC segment in India” he further added.
The Video KYC platform has also been adopted by New India Co-operative Bank for KYC completion of their existing customers. Speaking about the partnership, Ketan Muni, Head – Strategy & Operations at New India Co-Operative Bank Limited said, “Video KYC has simplified the KYC journey of the customers to a great extent. Kwik.ID, designed by the Think Analytics team, is a powerful yet simple video KYC solution for customer onboarding. The AI-powered solution ensures better identification, process integrity and customer security.”
Recently, RupeeRedee- the digital platform offering short term loans – awarded the Video KYC mandate to Kwik.ID as well. Jitin Bhasin, MD – RupeeRedee said “Covid-19 pandemic is likely to have a far-reaching impact on the way financial services are delivered and consumed. As a digital lender with a stated objective of leveraging technology across the supply chain, we decided to accelerate our product development roadmap to introduce the much-needed Video KYC process to serve our customers in a safe, efficient and contactless manner. We are now able to offer larger ticket size loans for longer tenures basis this new Customer Due Diligence Process.”
KwiK.ID is an RBI compliant AI-based Video KYC solution by Think Analytics. This AI-driven SaaS company ensures a streamlined process wherein verification goes under multiple stages such as geo-tagging and time-stamped for concurrent audit backed by RE’s domain and infrastructure.
Early this year, the Reserve Bank of India amended the Know Your Customer (KYC) rules and introduced the Video KYC option to onboard customers.