Established in 2015, Know Your Customer provides next generation digital onboarding solutions to financial institutions and FinTech organisations around the world. The KYC suite of digital products empowers organisations to centralise the four pillars of client onboarding – document collection, data extraction and assessment, ongoing monitoring, and reporting – for a more seamless, efficient and secure compliance process.

An experienced solutions advisor and consultant, Aradhna Sharma has been working on large corporate solution implementations in the FinTech, Financial Services, Insurance, Legal and Professional Services space across Asia Pacific, UK and US and for the past 12 years. After holding multiple chartered and commercial accountant roles at the beginning of her career, Aradhna transitioned to consulting, where she hired, led and managed teams providing innovative tech solutions and vendor management systems to Fortune 500 companies.

The announcement follows the appointment of Jamie Anderson as Head of Sales in Hong Kong in March 2020 and comes on the back of major client projects and industry partnerships introduced across APAC and Europe since the beginning of the year. Recently, Know Your Customer has also been featured in the Hong Kong Fintech Week’s Roadshow Event and presented on the topic of “Digital Onboarding & e-KYC Best Practices” in the webinar organised by the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute (WSBI) in collaboration with the Asian Financial Cooperation Association.

Claus Christensen, CEO & Co-Founder of Know Your Customer, commented:
“In 2020, we have witnessed an unprecedented paradigm shift towards remote working and digital onboarding determined by the global pandemic. Aradhna’s appointment enables us to address the increased demand for our technology in Singapore and across South-East Asia. Her extensive experience implementing corporate technology solutions at global organisations is a key driver in accelerating our ability to build strategic partnerships with key players in the region.”

Aradhna Sharma, the newly appointed Head of Corporate Solutions for South-East Asia at Know Your Customer, also commented:
“Today more than ever, financial institutions and regulated organisations are in need of Know Your Customer’s fast, reliable and secure client onboarding solutions to ensure business continuity during lockdown. I am very much looking forward to propelling Know Your Customer’s presence in South-East Asia even further, embarking on digital transformation projects of vital business importance.”

Through Know Your Customer’s intuitive compliance platform and vast range of customer-facing tools (APIs, iOS/Android App, Web Portal), compliance teams can efficiently perform all necessary KYC and AML checks on both individual and corporate customers, reducing compliance teams’ manual work by up to 85%.

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About Know Your Customer
Established in 2015, Know Your Customer provides next generation digital onboarding solutions to organisations around the world. Our award-winning technology is setting a new standard in the space of Anti-Money Laundering, Corporate KYC and ID Verification. Know Your Customer empowers compliance teams to efficiently perform all necessary KYC and AML checks on both individual and corporate customers, centralising the onboarding process through a uniquely intuitive and easy-to-use platform. This technology accelerates the time needed to onboard a new corporate client from an industry average of 26 days to 1 day, reducing compliance teams’ manual work by up to 85%.

With offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, and Dublin, Know Your Customer has quickly established a global presence and a reputation for excellence. Our customer list spans across 11 verticals - including banking, FinTech, insurance, payments, real estate, asset management, legal firms - and 18 jurisdictions.