On 2 December 2025, Finologee hosted its 4th lunchtime webinar bringing together experts from IDnow and LSEG Risk Intelligence to explore how interconnected technologies can significantly elevate KYC processes for Luxembourg’s financial industry.
The session attracted professionals from banks, PSFs, life insurers, fund administrators and asset managers, all eager to learn how modern digital tools can reduce friction, cut manual work, and strengthen compliance.
The speakers included: Jonathan Prince (Co-founder & CSO at Finologee), Stefan Kirsch (Head of Business Development at Finologee) Arnaud Gallut (Digital Identity Consultant at IDnow), and Piet Craenen (Business Development at LSEG Risk Intelligence), who jointly demonstrated how Finologee’s KYC Manager provides a modular, orchestrated environment for onboarding and ongoing due diligence.
Setting the scene: digital KYC in practice
Kicking off the session, Jonathan Prince revisited Finologee’s mission: helping regulated institutions digitise and streamline their compliance operations with secure, robust and easy-to-configure tools. He introduced KYC Manager, a Finologee platform built on modular workflows that enables institutions to orchestrate digital identity verification, screening and ongoing monitoring in a single ecosystem.
Participants were invited to take part in a short survey to assess market maturity in three areas:
- Identity verification (manual vs. digital)
- Screening & ongoing monitoring practices
- Key challenges in digitising KYC processes
The poll results showed a general tendency towards automation across multiple KYC/AML processes but with still plenty of room for further innovation – the main challenge being “system integration and interoperability” for the majority (57%) of attendees.
Future-proof digital identity verification with IDnow
Arnaud Gallut presented how IDnow empowers financial institutions to comply, protect and scale by addressing today’s core onboarding challenges, ranging from user friction and evolving fraud to regulatory complexity and high operational costs – through a multi-layered, future-proof identity verification stack designed for AMLR and eIDAS 2.0 compliance.
He highlighted how IDnow’s solutions reduce manual effort, cut fraud (including synthetic identities and deepfakes), and improve conversion by delivering seamless, GDPR-compliant customer journeys that integrate smoothly into existing workflows.
Arnaud also showcased IDnow’s broad financial-services use cases, from compliant onboarding and authentication to digital signing and reusable identity for cross-border growth, supported by strong regulatory acceptance, AI-powered fraud detection and proven customer success stories that demonstrate significant reductions in onboarding time and operational workload.
Learn more on the integration of IDnow and KYC Manager here.
Automating screening & monitoring: smarter not harder
Piet Craenen opened his presentation by emphasising that digitalising compliance is ultimately about working smarter, not harder, before introducing LSEG’s World-Check (now in its 25th anniversary year) – one of the fastest-growing, analyst-powered screening databases globally.
He highlighted how World-Check’s strictly curated and ISAE 3000–certified data, enriched by nearly 500 analysts and AI-driven adverse media categorisation, enables institutions to identify explicit and hidden risk with greater precision across onboarding and ongoing due diligence.
Piet also underscored a major recent development, announced earlier this year at Sibos: real-time publication of analyst updates and enhanced data granularity to support more focused, timely screening.
Do not miss our deep-dive with LSEG here.
Live demo of KYC Manager’s 3rd party integrations
To conclude, Stefan Kirch performed a live demonstration of a real-life customer onboarding example featuring IDnow’s identity verification capabilities and LSEG’s screening capabilities within KYC Manager.
Key takeaways
- The future of KYC is smarter, data-driven and interoperable. With real-time screening insights, AI-supported verification and a growing demand for interoperability, institutions that invest in connected KYC architectures will be best positioned to meet evolving market and regulatory expectations.
- Trusted partners strengthen both compliance and user experience. The seamless integration of IDnow and LSEG within KYC Manager shows how best-in-class technologies enhance fraud prevention, accelerate onboarding and support future regulatory requirements.
- Modular KYC orchestration delivers real efficiency gains by combining identity verification, screening and workflow automation within a single ecosystem.