KYC is the foundation of Financial Crime foundation of financial crime prevention because it is the first line of defense in identifying who you are dealing with before any financial relationship or transaction takes place.

The largest portion of the FinCrime workforce (58 per cent) is engaged in Know Your Customer (KYC), Customer Due Diligence (CDD), and monitoring activities.

In the digital age, Know Your Customer (KYC) is no longer just a regulatory formality — it’s a critical defense mechanism against increasingly sophisticated fraud, identity theft, and financial crime.

With the rise of deepfakes, AI-generated identities, and digitally altered documents, organizations face a growing challenge in verifying who their customers truly are. This has transformed KYC from a routine compliance process into a frontline technology- and intelligence-driven function. Further, rapid Digital Onboarding, shifting the onboarding to online account opening and remote verification has widened fraud risk and exposure to identity fraud.

• This course prepares to understand the regulatory requirement under laws such as the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and guidelines issued by RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, FIU-IND, and FATF.
• Understand documentation required, Officially Valid Documents (OVDs), vulnerabilities of the OVDS, Risk mitigants
• Understand high risk customers & businesses
• Understand AI-driven fraud techniques (e.g., deepfakes, spoofing) & apply digital forensics and verification tools to detect tampering
• Use multi-layered verification systems — biometric checks, liveness detection, and data triangulation
• Risk Categorization based on profile, on-boarding process, products etc.
• Overview of Enhanced Due Diligence, re-KYC and Perpetual KYC

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