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.












