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Utpal Patel

Utpal Patel

Partner at EY


Utpal Patel is a Partner at EY, specialising in transaction monitoring and screening. With over 15 years in AML and sanctions consulting, he has worked with banks around the world on financial crime technology solutions.

We’re moving away from prescribed checklists towards a risk-based approach. You’re still expected to obtain a residential address, but how you verify it is increasingly left to the firm, provided it’s defensible.
Utpal Patel
Rethinking Address Verification in APAC: From Proof of Address to Docless Verification
27 May, 2026 5:00 PM (HKT) 1 hr
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Rethinking Address Verification in APAC: From Proof of Address to Docless Verification

Talking Points:

  • Where address verification breaks today: basic OCR, mixed customer and issuer fields, minor typos failing genuine users, and AI-generated document fraud
  • The fix: enhanced OCR with forensic document analysis, layout-aware extraction, and fuzzy matching, paired with docless verification where the data rails support it.
  • A sector-by-sector view of where docless verification is ready today and where the document still earns its place.
  • What's changed in the rules: HKMA's May 2023 AML Guideline, MAS's November 2021 Myinfo expansion to foreigner pass-holders, the 2022 NFTF circular, and what most second-line teams haven't caught up with.
  • A defensible docless audit trail: what artifacts to keep, and what regulators have actually asked for during examinations.

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