Fraud Prevention MasterClass

Balancing fraud management with customer experience in high-value, complex service workflows​

Is it possible to simultaneously reduce fraud and improve the customer user experience?

We asked digital information specialists Icon UK to help – here’s their answers.

“…efficiently rebuild processes with accelerated speed, customer satisfaction and completion ratios”

Chris Jones, Managing Director, Icon UK Ltd

Regulated firms are constantly challenged in delivering a practical balance between robust anti-fraud procedures and a great customer experience. This is particularly seen where complex products and services must be appropriately explained to prospective customers and in turn interested individuals must be efficiently on-boarded before sales can be completed. The widening knowledge and skills gap between firms in UK and abroad both provides new threats and opportunities.

In response, Business Reporter has worked with Icon UK Limited, an independent, specialist consultancy focussing on identity management and process automation, to develop this MasterClass. This video-based series with related content focuses on combatting the most common fraud sources of compromised data and documentation, misrepresentation and impersonation. When transforming customer workflows with end-to-end automation, we discuss the use cases that this would apply to most commonly during the on-boarding of new clients including KYC/AML data collection and verification, with subsequent service implications thereafter.

Why is this important?

Government and police statistics show that fraud and cyber crime now exceeds all other crime put together, with no sign of it diminishing. Fraudsters are increasingly targeting high-value transactions (such as loans, mortgages, investments, etc) and highly valuable personal information (such as the type derived from healthcare, legal or employment matters). There is a high degree of financial and reputational risk at stake if organisations do not recognise this and reduce the risk of fraud. Yet, putting up too many obstacles will affect the user experience.

Why hasn’t this been fixed?

Many organisations are struggling with this because there is not a simple fix. Manual processes have been introduced to cope with the combination of:

• Silos of information

• Aging software applications

• The complexities of KYC and AML

While the subsequent issues caused are known, many digital transformation projects are no more than piecemeal transitions. These are supposed to be cheaper, quicker and lower risk, but too often are none of these compared to best practice approaches and technologies.

The opportunity

The by-product of reducing fraud usually involves delays due to increased paperwork, staff/partner frustration and impaired customer user experience. Through the combination and integration of a number of tools, fraud can be reduced and simultaneously:

• Minimise the likelihood of reputational and financial risk

• Improve customer experience

• Accelerate timescales

• Virtually eliminate paperwork and manual processing

• Reduce business process costs

• Improve compliance and conformance

Where does this fit in the complete customer lifecycle?

Not everything goes to plan

Complying with regulatory requirements (eg, MiFID II, PSD2 Strong Customer Authentication, GDPR, etc) can too often be time consuming, inconvenient and expensive when using outdated existing processes. And more customers are not prepared to tolerate service that is slow or perceived as treating their data insecurely. Businesses with old systems comprising many silos of data and process types are being abandoned by the most profitable clients at an increasing rate.

Several German challenger banks, and many established French banks, have found that introducing changes to digital platforms without sufficient design thinking, customer focus or compliance awareness can be detrimental to both reputation and profits. Most organisations benefit from working with external specialist consultants to review and challenge current and future practices. Working with internal teams, they can identify the most appropriate solutions to support future ambitions while controlling risk.

Each video session is organised with Learning Points and Key Takeaways. By investing a little time, you will quickly assess if you could benefit from finding out more or a deeper engagement.

Bonus offers

For a limited time, Icon UK is providing free access to some indicative tools that are designed to assist your journey. You can:

• Complete a digital maturity matrix to discover where you sit vs. your peers

• Complete an online ROI model to find out if there is a business case for change

• Contact a specialist consultant for some FREE guidance

Transform your and your Customer’s regulated Documents experience – ask how.