Bank streamlines loan recertification process resulting in fewer errors
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Challenge
FDIC regulations require financial institutions perform Risk-based Customer Due Diligence (CDD) for all customers, particularly for those with a high risk for money laundering and bad actor financing. Under the Bank Secrecy Act, it is the responsibility of any bank to “understand the nature and purpose of customer relationships for the purpose of developing a customer risk profile” and “on a risk basis, to maintain and update customer information”. According to the Customer Identification Program (CIP), a “bank may require identifying information” through the form of documents for individuals, corporations, partnerships, or trusts. According to the risk profile of a customer, information maintenance is required at varying intervals. This procedure is called Recertification and helps protect the Financial Institution from loan defaults, fraud, and bad actors.
A leading west coast bank had a difficult and tedious recertification process. Loan Officers had to personally reach out to customers to gather required documents and perform document validation, which was timeconsuming and error-prone. It was difficult to maintain service-level agreements (SLAs) and ensure that the documents were provided.
Loan Officers were overwhelmed with busy work, not allowing them to focus on more complex and higher value/risk cases.
“Macedon team consistently goes beyond being a development staff. They understand the business
process to the point they are able to identify gaps in user stories and provide proactive solutions. We continually get feedback from the business units about how great the team is to work with, in large part because of the creativity, quality, and attention
to detail.”
— SVP Solutions Delivery
Solution
Macedon Technologies was approached by this financial institution to integrate with a custom portal and create an application that would simplify and accelerate the process of customer recertification. The Continuous Customer Recertification (CCR) solution was developed to address the customer’s needs.
This solution accelerates and simplifies the process of maintaining and updating customer information by managing the sending of individual Recertifications through a configurable Risk Matrix based on Customer Due Diligence risk level, customer type, and product type. It also uses Smart tasking to optimize the assigning of recertifications to Loan Officers by risk level and customer-based Profiles. The solution further allows customers to suggest changes to data and upload and or sign required documents from a simple portal. Finally, the CCR solution also streamlined their reporting capabilities, allowing them to get a better understanding of their portfolio risk and SLAs across their CCR process as a whole.
The CCR application has significantly transformed the way the financial institution processes recertifications, allowing them to complete it more quickly with less errors. Furthermore, it freed up Loan Officers from tedious manual processes, allowing them to focus more on complex cases while still reducing overhead for lower risk recertifications. The CCR solution also streamlined their reporting capabilities, allowing them to get a better understanding of their portfolio risk and SLA’s across their CCR process as a whole.
Result
In summary, the bank was able to revolutionize its Recertification process with the Continuous Customer Recertification application built by Macedon Technologies. Allowing them to complete the process more quickly and with fewer errors freeing Loan Officers from the time-consuming, tedious manual process for Recertification allowing them to focus on complex cases while reducing the overhead on lower risk Recertifications. CCR can streamline and simplify the Recertification process for any financial institution, including but not limited to:
Financial Institutions, including Credit Unions
Thrift institutions
Broker-dealers
Investment management companies
Currency exchangesInsurance companies
Pawnbrokers
Dealers of precious metals and gems
Travel agencies
Automobile dealerships
Real estate companies
Casinos and gaming establishments
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