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Financial Services

Retail Bank Reduces Customer Onboarding Time from 5 Days to 5 Minutes

An end-to-end digital onboarding and eKYC platform on Azure that transformed account opening into a fully self-service mobile journey with straight-through processing.

Solution
Financial Services
Industry
Banking & Capital Markets
Company Size

Project Overview

client
Universal Retail Bank
industry
Banking & Capital Markets
solution
Financial Services
technologies
Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure Face API, Azure Logic Apps, Power Platform, Dynamics 365
duration
6 Months
region
Africa

The Challenge

Branch-led account opening took up to five days and required multiple in-person visits, driving high drop-off rates and operational cost per account.

  • 15-day average onboarding time leading to 40%+ application drop-off
  • 2Manual KYC document review consuming 300+ FTE hours weekly
  • 3Inconsistent customer experience across branch, web, and mobile channels

Our Solution

CloudGate designed a unified omnichannel onboarding platform on Azure, automating ID verification, liveness detection, and AML screening end-to-end.

  • AI-powered document extraction and verification with Azure AI Document Intelligence
  • Liveness detection and biometric matching for video-based KYC
  • Orchestrated approval workflow through Logic Apps with full audit trail

The Results

5 min
AVERAGE ONBOARDING TIME
85%
STRAIGHT-THROUGH PROCESSING
3x
CONVERSION RATE IMPROVEMENT
  • Onboarded 250,000 new customers via mobile in the first six months post-launch

Technologies Used

Azure AI Document IntelligenceAzure Face APIAzure Logic AppsPower PlatformDynamics 365

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