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AML / KYC
Customer due diligence, sanctions screening, and SAR filing
AML / KYC — Overview
Customer due diligence, sanctions screening, and SAR filing
KYC verifies customer identity at onboarding (ID docs, liveness, address). AML monitors ongoing transactions for suspicious patterns: structuring, round-tripping, high-risk jurisdictions. Sanctions screening against OFAC, UN, EU lists is mandatory before payment release.
// KYC onboarding pipeline
@PostMapping("/kyc/verify")
public KycResult verify(@RequestBody KycRequest req) {
DocumentCheck doc = ocrService.verifyId(req.getIdDocument());
LivenessCheck live = livenessService.verify(req.getSelfie());
PepCheck pep = sanctionsService.screenPep(req.getName(), req.getDob());
SanctionsCheck sanctions = sanctionsService.screen(req.getName());
return KycResult.builder()
.documentValid(doc.isValid())
.livenessScore(live.getScore())
.pepMatch(pep.isMatch())
.sanctionsHit(sanctions.isHit())
.build();
}
// AML — structuring detection (Kafka Streams)
// Multiple deposits just under $10K reporting thresholdTip: False positive rate drives ops cost — tune screening fuzzy matching to reduce manual review queue.