{"id":4706,"date":"2020-10-23T04:52:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T04:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/signdesk.com\/in\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2025-10-28T01:34:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:04:57","slug":"why-document-verification-is-the-future-of-kyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melento.ai\/en-in\/blog\/why-document-verification-is-the-future-of-kyc","title":{"rendered":"Why Document Verification Is The Future Of KYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Data-centric KYC<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Most of us are familiar with data-centric verification methods, although we probably haven\u2019t heard that term used to describe these methods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For the longest time the only way to verify customers involved verifying information reported by them on an application form. Earlier, these forms used to be paper-based, i.e customers would fill out a form and present them to verifying officials.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A perfunctory amount of digitization then led to these forms being \u201cdigitized<\/strong>\u201d. Customers would then provide identifying data on a device, usually through a form using a browser or an application, which would be verified using a standard database.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Both these methods of verification are data-centric. This means that the data provided by customers is at the centre of the process and the veracity of KYC<\/a> <\/strong>performed in this way is tethered to this self-reported data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This data-centric approach to verification is, of course, advantageous in a few ways –\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n