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Airwallex improves customer onboarding with generative AI

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San Francisco, CA - Airwallex today shared data on the impact of a new generative AI tool that enhances the speed and efficacy of its “Know your Customer” (KYC) and onboarding processes. The new tool reduces ‘false positives’ by 50 percent on average, while boosting the number of customers that pass through the onboarding process without human intervention by 20 percent.

 

“With generative AI, we’re honing our KYC tools to be much more accurate and context-aware,” said Jacob Dai, co-founder and chief technology officer at Airwallex. “We’re making it faster and easier for our customers to get up and running with Airwallex – often within minutes – while enhancing our ability to detect and prevent fraud on our platform. These enhancements translate directly to our customers – they can unlock the value of our platform more readily and accelerate their own global growth.” 

 

The tool is attuned to nuances and sensitivities of various languages and cultures, a key feature for a company as globally distributed as Airwallex. “We work with businesses from incredibly diverse industries and cultural settings,” said Dai. “Having an intelligent AI co-pilot, trained on vast amounts of linguistic data, helps us navigate those intricacies more quickly and effectively.”

 

Addressing the KYC challenge with smarter AI tools

“KYC is that vital first step in our relationship with a customer,” said Dai. “We use a combination of intelligent technologies and human expertise to establish that new customers are who they say they are, that they’re being truthful about the nature of their business, and that their products or services are legal and in line with Airwallex’s acceptable use policies.”

 

Historically, Airwallex has used rules-based analytics and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to scan new customers’ websites. Those tools are very effective in identifying high-risk keywords, but also tend to generate a significant volume of false-positive alerts – which can slow down the KYC process unnecessarily. 

 

“Generative AI helps Airwallex’s models to be much more sensitive to the context and meaning of keywords,” said Dai. “When scanning a customer’s website, the model can better distinguish between a retailer selling a ‘military-style’ jacket and a merchant selling prohibited military goods, or a ‘champagne-colored’ dress and actual champagne, or smartphone accessories versus actual smartphones being sold illegitimately.”

 

Airwallex’s AI Roadmap

Airwallex is building a series of features that enhance user experience through generative AI and NLP. “We know our customers want tailored services, immediate assistance, and intuitive access to their data,” said Dai. “Using generative AI and NLP, we can help our customers get answers quickly and effectively, whether it’s searching for a specific transaction in their history, or creating a detailed payout workflow with an automated chat function. There are many applications to explore, and we’re just getting started.” Airwallex expects to launch additional AI-powered functionalities in 2024.

 

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Notes to editors

Airwallex internal analysis comparing legacy rules-based model with newer generative AI website scanner that flags potential issues on a customer's application. 50 percent reduction in false positives indicates the reduction in the number of customers whose website(s) needs to be checked for potential red flags. 20 percent increase in the number of customers that can move through Airwallex’s fully-automated KYC process. 

 

For media inquiries, please contact press@airwallex.com 


Key Facts:

New tool uses large language models (LLMs) to speed up Airwallex’s Know your Customer (KYC) assessment, helping customers get up and running faster. 

Early results show an average 50 percent reduction in ‘false-positive’ alerts for a key component of Airwallex’s due diligence process.

This is the first of several AI tools that Airwallex will roll out, including new product features and operational enhancements.

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