Case Study: Azizi Bank achieves automated AML compliance and faster onboarding with Refinitiv Worldcheck

A compliance partnership that's putting the Afghan banking industry on the map

Azizi Bank, founded in 2006 with around 1.2 million customers and nearly 80 branches, needed to modernise manual compliance processes and digitise AML checks while maintaining continuity as one of Afghanistan’s most respected banks. To accelerate this change and set a national example for compliance automation, Azizi partnered with Refinitiv and adopted Refinitiv Worldcheck for sanctions and AML screening.

Refinitiv implemented Refinitiv Worldcheck to deliver fully automated, real-time screening (integrating via APIs with Azizi’s ICBA core banking software), enabling faster client onboarding, more accurate sanction checks, reduced conduct risk and greater transparency. The solution has already sped up onboarding and moved Azizi toward full automation of compliance workflows, supporting the bank’s broader AML/CFT efforts that helped Afghanistan be removed from the FATF grey list in June 2017.

Azizi Bank

Ravi Ramani Iyer

Chief Compliance Officer