KYC/CDD Operations integration for the world’s largest cross-border banking merger

Two global banks merged and Lysis was asked to manage the integration of the KYC Operations functions globally for the wholesale & Investment Banking division covering 200,000 customers and 65 countries.

Division
Consulting & Advisory
Industry

Corporate, Wholesale and Investment Bank

Service-line

Merger & Integration Services

The Client

The merger of two global banks.

The Challenge

To integrate the KYC Operations functions including organisation, policies, processes, people, systems and data.

The Solution

Lysis deployed an experienced change director to oversee the two-year programme and business and compliance analysts to conduct the workstreams.

We worked with bank personnel from both banks to:

  • Demerge the customers of the acquired bank and split them between the three purchasing banks.
  • Contribute to the design and execution of the customer integration programme in the bank acquiring the wholesale client book.
  • Design the AML Operations Target Operating Model for the future bank.
  • Contribute to the harmonization of policy requirements across the new bank.
  • Design the integration programme for the KYC data and agree it with compliance and operations for each business line of the acquiring bank.
  • Execute the integration, cleanse the data, creatre a single golden sources and test the results.
  • Uplift compliance data as needed to ensure it met the new global policy.
  • Optimise the operating model to ensure ongoing efficiency
Results
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