Success unveiled: Standard Bank's seamless SME digital onboarding process

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29/01/2024Video
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Kim Holmes

Standard Bank

Head, Digital and eCommerce, Business and Commercial Banking

Kim Holmes, Head of Digital and eCommerce for Business and Commercial Banking at Standard Bank, introduces their cutting-edge SME digital onboarding solution.

After 18 months of meticulous work and testing, the African bank is now unveiling a digital onboarding solution for SMEs, centered around facial recognition technology. This marks a significant improvement from the previous timeframe of 3 days to 2 weeks, now streamlined to approximately 10 minutes. Kim provides a detailed explanation of the entire process.

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