Case Study: KfW Bankengruppe achieves lean, automated KYC and audit‑proof compliance with ACTICO Compliance Suite (ACTICO)

KfW Group Better Customer Profiling & Lean Compliance Management

KfW Bankengruppe, a German promotional bank with 4.5 million customers and more than 4,000 products worldwide, faced a decentralized, time-consuming KYC and onboarding process that lacked transparency and auditability. To accelerate customer profiling, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring and lean compliance management, KfW chose ACTICO and its ACTICO Compliance Suite to centralize and automate compliance workflows.

ACTICO implemented the ACTICO Compliance Suite to automate sanctions-list checks, daily PEP/Dow Jones screening, transaction analysis for AML patterns, risk-based onboarding instructions and role-based access across front and back office. The result: KfW can process compliance for millions of customers with an eight-person onboarding team, produce audit-ready reports at the push of a button, shorten lead times, improve cross-department collaboration and achieve significantly more transparent, traceable and efficient compliance operations with ACTICO.

KfW Bankengruppe

Dirk Hahn

Senior Regulatory Law