INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Mobile Technology
NEC XON creates KYC solution
for mobile networks and
financial services
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EC XON has created a Know Your
Customer (KYC) solution to help
mobile network operators and
financial services businesses comply with
legislation while cutting the costs, time and
resources usually associated with issuing
SIM and bank cards. Doing so helps them
improve customer service and provide their
value-added services on top of the physical
product that much quicker.
“The solution can be customised to
accommodate relevant legislation and
also helps update, maintain and serve the
needs of identity systems such as national
identification, immigration, social services
and others,” said Grahame Saunders,
Business Head of Biometrics at NEC XON.
“The physical device that can then be
used for SIM and issuing bank cards is a
self-service kiosk the size of an ATM and
integrates with the business systems these
organisations use.”
He says the system quickly moves the
customer’s subscribers or clients through
the regulated process of collecting their
personal details together with their
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Grahame Saunders, Business Head of
Biometrics at NEC XON
biometrics. The process also creates an
updated central repository of subscriber
information. Various workflows can then
reuse the data as allowable, applicable and
commercially viable.
It then issues the SIM or bank card
automatically, like a vending machine, and
transmits the necessary data to back-end
systems to activate the SIM or bank card.
“The physical device, like those of our
customers, becomes a gateway to value-
adding services,” added Saunders.
“This solution also provides a central
data repository to audit active users, the
capability to audit for legislation, enables
offline registrations, provides a centralised
database of blacklisted users and can be
used to blacklist devices, users and SIMs.
It can be deployed almost anywhere it’s
needed for indefinite periods, provides
convenient services to travellers to a
country where legislation allows and can
automatically deactivate SIMs when visitors
leave, and can deduplicate data.”
NEC XON partnered with Wavetec for its
KYC solution. Wavetec is a multinational IT
company that designs and manufactures
enterprise queue management, information
displays and self-service kiosk solutions
for mobile network operators and banks.
Saunders says his engineers developed
the integration APIs on standardised SOA
technologies to facilitate integration into
customer business systems, which future-
proofs the solution and supports the
customer’s business flexibility. Out-of-the-
box functionality captures fingerprint, iris
and facial biometric data using NEC’s global
best-in-class software platform. Low-cost
smartphone-type technology using Windows
and Android technology, rather than
bespoke biometric solutions, provide the
physical interface and connect via a number
of alternatives to back-end systems. n
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