Why AML is hard for Banks & Credit Institutions
Banks face intense regulatory scrutiny while managing complex customer portfolios. Legacy KYC systems and manual processes slow onboarding, increase false positives, and raise regulatory risk.
How Banks and Credit Institutions use Steward
Risk-based workflows accelerate account opening for retail and business customers while ensuring appropriate CDD measures are applied based on customer type, jurisdiction, and risk factors.
Real-time sanctions, PEP, and adverse media screening across customers, beneficial owners, and related parties provides consolidated risk views and reduces false positive alert fatigue.
Dynamic risk scoring combines screening, customer, product, and geographic risk factors into a unified assessment aligned with your risk appetite and regulatory requirements.
AI-powered document extraction and verification streamline identity validation, business registration checks, and beneficial ownership identification, reducing manual review time by up to 80%.
Automated triggers initiate reviews based on customer risk rating, regulatory timelines, significant events, or transactional behavior, ensuring your CDD stays current.
Seamlessly integrates KYC risk scores and customer profile data with transaction monitoring systems to enhance alert quality and SAR decision-making.
Typical Financial Institutional needs
Trusted by financial institutions managing millions of customer relationships
Document-first onboarding that removes blockers, even for complex structures.
“Steward’s document-first onboarding quickly extracts required information, flagging gaps, and removing blockers, even for complex structures.”
Less review time, stronger audit defensibility, higher-value work.
“Steward cuts manual review time, improves decision consistency, and strengthens audit defensibility, freeing compliance teams to focus on higher-value work.”
One fund became our entire portfolio on Steward.
“What started with one fund led us to move our entire portfolio to Steward, delivering seamless, AI-powered onboarding with a highly responsive team.”
Document-first onboarding that removes blockers, even for complex structures.
“Steward’s document-first onboarding quickly extracts required information, flagging gaps, and removing blockers, even for complex structures.”
Less review time, stronger audit defensibility, higher-value work.
“Steward cuts manual review time, improves decision consistency, and strengthens audit defensibility, freeing compliance teams to focus on higher-value work.”
One fund became our entire portfolio on Steward.
“What started with one fund led us to move our entire portfolio to Steward, delivering seamless, AI-powered onboarding with a highly responsive team.”
Document-first onboarding that removes blockers, even for complex structures.
“Steward’s document-first onboarding quickly extracts required information, flagging gaps, and removing blockers, even for complex structures.”
Less review time, stronger audit defensibility, higher-value work.
“Steward cuts manual review time, improves decision consistency, and strengthens audit defensibility, freeing compliance teams to focus on higher-value work.”
One fund became our entire portfolio on Steward.
“What started with one fund led us to move our entire portfolio to Steward, delivering seamless, AI-powered onboarding with a highly responsive team.”
Getting started
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Start onboarding your first client in less than 24 hours, with compliance built in from day one.
Implement your own compliance standards and processes, tailored to your compliance program.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Steward supports passports, national ID cards, and other commonly accepted identity documents, validated according to jurisdictional requirements.