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Enhanced due diligence and periodic review are manual, backlogged and inconsistent between analysts. Screening hits arrive in volume with little triage ahead of them. And a risk misclassification made at onboarding does not stay at onboarding: a customer placed in the wrong band is then measured against thresholds set for that band, which means the error hides itself. The cost of getting this stage wrong is paid quietly, for years.
“A customer misclassified at onboarding is invisible to every threshold you set afterwards. The mistake does not announce itself; it compounds quietly, for years.”